Archive: November 09, 2005

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

1. Commentary Magazine: Norman Podhoretz: Who Is Lying About Iraq? (via LGF):

   Among the many distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is the charge that George W. Bush misled us into an immoral and/or unnecessary war in Iraq by telling a series of lies that have now been definitively exposed.
   
   What makes this charge so special is the amazing success it has enjoyed in getting itself established as a self-evident truth even though it has been refuted and discredited over and over again by evidence and argument alike. In this it resembles nothing so much as those animated cartoon characters who, after being flattened, blown up, or pushed over a cliff, always spring back to life with their bodies perfectly intact. Perhaps, like those cartoon characters, this allegation simply cannot be killed off, no matter what.
   
   Nevertheless, I want to take one more shot at exposing it for the lie that it itself really is. Although doing so will require going over ground that I and many others have covered before, I hope that revisiting this well-trodden terrain may also serve to refresh memories that have grown dim, to clarify thoughts that have grown confused, and to revive outrage that has grown commensurately dulled.

   To read.

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2. Man, after last night's House I want to carry a Geiger counter with me everywhere.

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3. Mozilla Web Author FAQ (via Anne). If a page is served as XHTML:

   The document is not loaded and rendered incrementally. That is, the document is displayed only after the entire document has been received and parsed. Contrary to a common misguided assertion, this is not done in response to a requirement set forth in any W3C specification. In particular, the XML specification does not require the entire document to be checked for errors before rendering can start. The lack of incremental loading and display is simply a bug (or a missing feature).

   Also see Anne's post on the Mozilla FAQ on 'application/xhtml+xml'. Incremental loading doesn't seem to be supported in 1.5 either.

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4. Bluish Coder: Why Bluish Coder? "I stuck my name in an anagram engine and it was one of the options that came out." That's cool.

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