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It's not often that I read something that is so dead on I feel compelled to write almost exclusively about it, but this Op-Ed by Frank Rich in the NY Times today is one of those times. It's about the rise of Obama in world politics and how his trip was perfectly timed to reap the maximum benefit. Two particularly salient points from the article:
You might have noticed that the site has seen a few minor changes. This reflects a large-scale refactoring of the entire blog application (in order to fix a queryset caching issue), and the simplification and consolidation of a lot of crufty templates. You can see my progress via the hg repo.
In Japan, copyright infringement is a criminal offense (unlike here, although our corporate fascist leanings might push it there in due time), so file sharing is a dangerous game. Because of this, sophisticated anonymizing and encryption techniques have been built into Japanese peer-to-peer programs for at least 5 years now.
After a few days of actually getting things done, I relapsed into staring lazily into the depths of the internet and finding entertainment in what most people would probably consider the most mundane of places. This time, it was one of the rare interesting reddit articles in which a guy mails typographers asking them for handwriting samples.
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