Reading notes

I liked the look and feel of many of the photoblogs I looked at [at TypePad], such as Joi Ito’s San Francisco photos, so I set out to re-create the look in a Movable Type weblog called MT Faux PhotoBlog. Once I figured out the templates, it was quite easy to create the album.

Save for the ubiquitous blue signs, “Howard Dean for America,” it would have been hard to know that Bryant Park was hosting a presidential candidate last night and not a Hootie and the Blowfish concert.

But even bearing that in mind, it was hard to leave the speech last night without thinking: Wow, this guy can actually win …

The reason 10,000 people gathered in Bryant Park — and it’s hard to imagine a tenth of that many gathering for any of the four candidates now serving in the Senate — is because Dean looks and acts like a normal human being who just happens to be smart, well-informed and passionate about changing the political system. His establishment opponents, like Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt, often seem programmed or pulseless.

To come up with our Mendacity Index, we asked a nominating committee of noted journalists and pundits to pick the most serious fibs, deceptions, and untruths spoken by each of the four most recent presidents. … We believe their validity rests somewhere between the Periodic Table and the U.S. News & World Report college rankings.

[via Daily Kos]

Me, I still use Camino for nearly everything. It’s standards compliant and it looks right to me after applying Reinhold Penner’s ChimerIcon/CaminoKnight theme magic. Safari’s rendering just doesn’t quite cut it for me yet. Eric’s observes that Camino is “crash prone”; I haven’t noticed that in the nightly builds from the last several months. For months now it’s been solid as a rock for me.

I also like Galeon a lot when I’m running Linux or NetBSD (or Mac OS X’s X11).

Fascinating ‘girl blog’ by 23 year old Riverbend, an intelligent, articulate, and courageous Iraqi ‘girl’ in Baghdad.

Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.