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After the fight, originally uploaded by mike3k.

Cody & Midnight had a very noisy fight and were chasing each other around the house for several minutes. A little while later, I caught both of them resting on the dining table, looking as if nothing happened.
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Via MacInTouch: The DigiBarn Computer Museum reports that Jef Raskin, the man who originated and inspired the Macintosh revolution, passed away peacefully yesterday.
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I’ve added the Amazon Items module, which I’ve been experimenting with on my test site, to Macmegasite & WorldBeatPlanet. Related items from Amazon can now be added to any story. A good example can be seen here.
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I now have Jimi Mbaye’s Studio Dogo site set up at DreamHost. We weren’t able to regain control of studio-dogo.com, so we now have studiodogo.com.
We’ve exchanged several emails the last few days and Jimi is interested in working on other projects.
I’m also planning to relaunch ShareYourMusic.com as a completely new professional site, as I had [...]

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Via MetaFilter: Bill Moyers: Theocrats and ideologues in charge of US government: For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology [...]

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Anyone who owns a home has probably experienced this. it seems like several times a week you get offers for a new mortgage (which I’m NOT looking for; my current one is a very nice fixed rate). They always use pretty obvious fake names. Today I got one from Marshall Mathers. Either Eminem has a [...]

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Via Plastic: Most Recent: Plastic::Politics::Politics: Not only do liberals and conservatives have different outlooks, but they may well have different starting points - is it policy or pragmatism that drives politics?
Liberalism, says Chait, is essentially a pragmatic, results-driven philosophy — a particular goal is identified, and then a means of achieving that goal is developed [...]

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Via morons.org headlines:
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin addressed the House of Commons on February 16th in order to pledge his support for the federal law that would give the rights of civil marriage to all couples, regardless of sexual orientation.
A few excerpts from his speech:

We will be influenced by our faith but we also [...]

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I’ve added a simple hack to the default Kubrick theme which displays a random header graphic. Here’s how it works. I added the following function to the top of header.php:
NOTE: this must come AFTER the doctype & html lines.

<?php
function header_graphic() {
echo “/images/”;
$num=rand(0,8);
echo “kubrickheader”.$num.”.jpg”;
};
?>

Next, I changed the style element for header as follows:

#header { background: url(”< [...]

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Via MetaFilter: Hunter S Thompson commits suicide. This hit me as a big shock first thing in the morning. More links here.
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This site is now using WP 1.5 themes. I’ve converted the old appearance to a theme and I’m now using a slightly modified version of the default theme.
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I’m now hosting Jimi Mbaye’s Studio Dogo site at DreamHost. Unfortuantely the previous domain owner let it lapse and the registrar won’t let me transfer the domain, so it’s now a subdomain of dreamhosters.com until I can get it straightened out.
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I’ve redesigned the entire site to take advantage of WordPress 1.5’s new page feature. I’ve converted all of the previous static content to pages, which are now stored in the database. The weblog is now the main page rather than a subdirectory, and the navigation links on the right are available in all pages.
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Via Boing Boing: Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch has come to life and moved to Israel, wehre it is the subject of intense litigation:

An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma’ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated [...]

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I’ve changed the name of my weblog to /dev/random which sounds cooler than “Mike Cohen’s Weblog” and reflects the content.
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Via nancies.org: Dave Matthews has a guest spot on Mike Doughty’s upcoming release, Haughty Melodic, slated for release on May 3.
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Remember Bollywood for the skeptical? Boing Boing does it again for another genre with Ska for the Skeptical. The author of this page is the roommate of the Bollywood page’s author.
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Apple stock is still rising. It’s been rising steadily for a few months now & it closed over 90 today. I wish I’d bought when it was in the 20s; it’s too late to buy now.
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I can’t wait to see this movie, which opens April 28.
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I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. The upgrade was very quick & painless.
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