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Cory Doctorow has posted an eloquent homage to Peter Ackroyd’s wonderful book, London: the Biography, which I am currently reading. The only problem is that last week I also received Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, and so the two wonderful books are duking it out for my attention, which is limited to begin with.
As if I didn’t have enough to read already, what are you reading?
The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations holds regular hearings on a number of subjects, including of course Iraq and the post-war transition occurring there. Yesterday’s session was called Iraq Transition: Civil War or Civil Society?. Dr Juan Cole’s testimony is indispensible if you wish to understand what’s going on there now and what should be done about it. [Direct Link to a 33K PDF]
Type on the Web. Several top designers opine on various angles of this important issue. [via Jason Fried at SVN]
BTW, I hate it when articles on the web are undated. There is no way other than looking at the URL of this piece to know when this was published, and even that is not clear. I think it’s recent but there’s no way to know for sure.
posted a piece about GMail that I overlooked, though many blogs I read referred to it. But it’s just the title that’s misleading – the piece itself is excellent. O’Reilly’s The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It’s Bogus is about MUCH more than the privacy concerns, it’s about the whole thing that GMail represents. “Pioneers like Google are remaking the computing industry before our eyes. Google of course isn’t one computer — it’s a hundred thousand computers, by report — but to the user, it appears as one. Our personal computers, our phones, and even our cars, increasingly need to be thought of as access and local storage devices. The services that matter are all going to run on the global virtual computer that the internet is becoming.”
