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Flynt winks; C-SPAN blinks

C-SPAN, the public service cable television channel created by the American cable industry, prides itself on presenting live and unvarnished coverage of public affairs. The channel’s mission is to...

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Minnesota mandatory health insurance

Either I’m missing something, or one of the meanest pieces of proposed legislation is coming down the pike. The proposed bill would require every Minnesota resident to have health insurance while...

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What is it about Microsoft and security?

I spent most of the day installing Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and, well, it’s a good thing I got a buzz cut last Thursday or what little hair I have left would be gone.One of the big deals...

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The Jeff and Larry show

Wired magazine put on the Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig show earlier this week with all the theatrical trappings of a rock-and-roll extravaganza, with tickets sold out online in minutes and lines...

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Grateful Dead pull archive

The Internet Archive has been asked, presumably by the Grateful Dead, to pull more than 1,000 soundboard recordings of the band’s performances from its archive. Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle...

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Bush secretly ordered spying on citizenry

According to various reports the White House is neither confirming nor denying that President Bush in 2002 secretly ordered the National Security Agency to spy on email and telephone communications...

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More on Bush’s criminal wiretaps

President Bush claimed yesterday that he was not expanding unchecked power of the executive branch of US government with his secret domestic spying program: “To say ‘unchecked power’ basically is...

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Minnesota weblog defamation case

A Minnesota weblog libel case is brewing that may have national implications for purveyors of new media. Michael Brodkorb writing anonymously on his weblog, Minnesota Democrats Exposed, cited an...

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The tyranny of the gift

The other day a friend asked if I would be a kidney donor were I able. “Yes, of course; I think I’d even like to be an anonymous donor,” I immediately answered before I spotted the trap: “Well, then...

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Blood money

Hey everybody, forget about the tanked US economy. Let’s all go profit from providing dialysis services to permanent kidney failure patients, like DaVita, Inc.The Associated Press reports that DaVita...

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Launching TwinCitiesTwitter in three hours

Do you tweet from or about the Twin Cities? If so, consider joining TwinCitiesTwitter, a hyperlocal tweetstream for the Twin Cities — Minneapolis and Saint Paul — Minnesota USA.Here’s how:Send a...

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New York Times: Walk away from your mortgage

Strategic default. When a Wall Street firm does it, it’s just business; when an underwater homeowner does it, it’s morally repugnant and irresponsible. What’s wrong with this picture? Roger...

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Apple iPad? Wait for v2; it’ll have wings

In the single most underwhelming product announcement in either of Steve Jobs’ tenure at Apple, the company today announced its iPad tablet computer. Available in April 2010 and ranging in price from...

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WikiLeaks’ brief affair with Amazon

WikiLeaks dropped its latest information bomb earlier this week and almost immediately its website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. WikiLeaks responded by moving its...

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Ramsey County, Minnesota’s pants-on-fire former sheriff

Turns out former Ramsey County (that’s mostly Saint Paul, Minnesota) Sheriff Bob Fletcher failed to respond to multiple Minnesota Data Practices Act requests for information mostly because he was flat...

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Let’s start with Minnesota’s US$3 billion HMO budget question

A story broken by KSTP-TV investigative reporter Jay Kolls reveals that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in Minnesota collectively receive US$3 billion annually to administer the state’s public...

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Demand Media — content farm yet to show profit — goes public

Unbelievably, Demand Media — the largest of the content farm organizations, and one that has never turned a profit — went public. The stock closed 33 percent above its inflated offering price. At one...

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Day two at the sausage factory: Coronary angiogram

In about a half-hour, I’ll be heading down the Grand Avenue hill to the Nasseff Heart Center for a coronary angiogram. A catheter is inserted in an artery in my groin and passed up to my heart. A...

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Google+ arrives (for a few)

Google has announced its latest attempt at social networking, Google+. The search engine giant stresses that Google+ is a project, not a product, and it’s aim is to make the entire Google universe...

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Howard Levy comes home to the Flecktones

For the first time in 19 years all of the original Flecktones were together again publicly last night at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheater. Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten, and Future Man are all...

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Judge rules Oregon’s media shield law doesn’t cover bloggers

In a decision that will have ramifications for anyone who writes online without a corporate benefactor, US District Judge Marco A. Hernandez in Portland, OR has drawn a clear distinction between...

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Status quo stenography

Today’s New York Times carries an op-ed by the US’ paper of record’s public editor, Arthur S. Brisbane — who, it should be noted, works outside of the Times‘ editorial structure — asking if the...

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It’s not fascism when we do it

Mike Lofgren, a former congressional staffer, makes a non-compelling case in the Atlantic for voting for Barack Obama in tomorrow’s US presidential election. Basically, Lofgren’s argument boils down...

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I’ll meet you at the Jubilee

Shake it up now, Sugaree I’ll meet you at the Jubilee If that Jubilee don’t come Maybe I’ll meet you on the run — Robert Hunter and Jerry GarciaAccording to the Bible (Leviticus 25), Jubilee occurs...

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A brief shining moment of GOP sanity: Gone in a flash

Late last Friday, The Republican Study Committee (RSC), the caucus of conservatives in the US House of Representatives, published a remarkably lucid, extraordinarily sane position paper on copyright...

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The problem with non-secured, boundary-less email

It’s not a small irony that the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was unable to secure his email communications.US Army General David H. Petraeus used Google’s Gmail to consort with...

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Why iTunes 11 sucks

Dave Winer nails it (yet again) with “iTunes is an outliner.” He also provides an excellent analysis of how iTunes got to be so bad.I’m absolutely dumbfounded with all of the tech press fawning over...

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Disrupting publishing’s business skeuomorphism

Honda disrupted the automobile industry in the US by taking everything it knew about transportation and the individual automobile and distilling it to its simplest set of components that meet a...

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ITU/WCIT threatens open internet

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a tiny agency within the United Nations hosting the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) 3-14 December in Dubai. The...

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Indefinite detention ban dropped from NDAA

Last month, in something of a surprise, the US Senate passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that explicitly banned the US military from indefinitely detaining US...

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Cable lobbyist admits data caps bogus

Former US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair and current cable industry lobbyist, Michael Powell, has acknowledged cable internet connectivity data caps had nothing to do about network...

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Still convinced Congress cares about fiscal responsibility?

If you need any additional convincing that fiscal responsibility is the furthest item of interest to the US Congress, look no further than the special treatment pharmaceutical giant Amgen — the...

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Velphoro approved by US FDA

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Velphoro for treatment of hyperphosphatemia in dialysis patients. Velphoro is an iron-based and calcium-free phosphate binder requiring fewer...

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NSA paid RSA US$10 million to include encryption back door

According to Joseph Menn writing for Reuters, The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly paid US$10 million to encryption vendor RSA to include a back door in its BSAFE encryption product. In the...

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NSA domestic telephone surveillance program ruled legal

Less than two weeks ago, US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic telephone surveillance program that collects information on nearly all...

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