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We have found Magneto. Now we just have to wait a few years to assemble the Brotherhood of Mutants.
posted by pnevares at 9:40 PM PST - 13 comments

The Greenwood Position. Partisan perhaps, but will Peggy Noonan's latest OpEd in the WSJ be a rallying cry for frustrated conservatives? She offers compelling arguments and solid suggestions for proactive redress. Talk amongst yourselves.
posted by netbros at 7:51 PM PST - 6 comments

ISSNs for your blog? Joe Clark looks at the process, and urges authors to sign up, which puts your blog officially in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals. It sounds like a good idea, and could help people using the periodical databases for research, since many blogs cover the same things magazines do.
posted by mathowie at 7:47 PM PST - 7 comments

Just the ticket... A 500,000 markka (£50,000ish) fine for speeding? If you're a dot-com millionaire in Finland, sure. Though you have to wonder whether it's about time to slap a ban on this speed merchant. (The debating point: should fines be related to income?)
posted by holgate at 6:15 PM PST - 10 comments

Why have I never seen this before today? It turns out that the funniest mockery of the Florida ballot comes from BET; I find this much better than the oft-emailed wiggly-line ballot.
posted by delfuego at 1:14 PM PST - 8 comments

Climate talks end in failure. How shocking.
posted by Mr. skullhead at 12:24 PM PST - 16 comments

Maybe ICANN really can't. There may be a revolt among all those Europeans who think that they own their parts of the Internet. (Who do they think they are, anyway? Don't they realize that they're just electronic colonies of the US?)

Actually, I'm with them; I think ICANN is getting just a little too full of itself.
posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:14 AM PST - 2 comments

Globalization sucks ... venti lattes through a Starbucks straw in Beijing's Forbidden City.
posted by allaboutgeorge at 1:42 AM PST - 34 comments