Archive: March 16, 2005

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

1. Guardian | Cleft lip abortion done 'in good faith'.

   Update: Lorie comments.

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2. Charles quotes Christopher Hitchens on the "looting" of Iraq's WMD facilities:

   Thus, if the story is factually correct—which we have no reason at all to doubt—then Saddam’s Iraq was a fairly highly-evolved WMD state, with a contingency plan for further concealment and distribution of the weaponry in case of attack or discovery.

   Not sure what all this means, or whether this lends credence to the theory that the WMD are in the Bekaa Valley, but the story of Iraq's WMD, it seems, is far from over.

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3. lgf: A Bad Day for Moonbats:

   First, Wolfowitz as World Bank president, now this. The all-powerful, super moronic Chimpy Cowboy Hitlerstein wins again: Senate Votes to Allow Arctic Drilling.

   Hahaha.

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4. GameSpy: Will Wright Presents Spore... and a New Way to Think About Games. "For a while he didn't think it was possible. Then, once he got over that..."

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5. Grady Booch's keynote on software complexity at AOSD | Lambda the Ultimate (to read links).

   Update: LtU links to his slides.

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Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn

This is a test to see if my URIs are encoded correctly.

Anne claimed that a URI I had in Hebrew wasn't properly encoded (in UTF-8), but I'm not even sure how to check. As far as I know I'm doing all my Unicode handling correctly (in UTF-8), but ultimately I rely on my browser to give me the right UTF-8. Whatever I submit with my browser is what gets stuck in my database and ultimately winds up as a URI.

Sam has a URI-encoded version of 'Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn' that I can check against to see if it gets URI-ified correctly, so this is a test to see how my thing works... and, worked. I'm not sure what's up with the Hebrew if Anne is right.

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1. Jeffrey King has transcribed Scalia's speech on Constitutional interpretation from a few days ago. Power Line has more. This is his speech I blogged about earlier.

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2. Foundational Calculi for Programming Languages (intro) | Lambda the Ultimate. Seems like it might be interesting, but the site's down right now.

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3. New fonts from Microsoft, via Keith, via Rafe.

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4. amaztype. Here's an example. Strange. Via Chris.

   Update: Make sure you try clicking on a book image.

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