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Disarming Iraq. The time has come for members of the United Nations Security Council to quit pretending that inspections alone are the solution. [New York Times: Opinion]

The “Pull My Finger” Project. Something’s been weighing heavily on my mind for quite some time, and I think I’m finally ready to test my hypothesis. The question: “What if everybody in the world farted at the same time?” I’ll need your help, and can do nothing but assume that you’re going to participate unless I hear otherwise. At 4PM (Pacific) today, I need you to let loose and pass some gas. If my theory is correct, the planet will survive this influx in Pu (Stinkinium) gases. Not quite a noble gas, but respectable nonetheless. Thank you for your kind assistance. My suggestion? Grab a burrito or two for lunch. Careful not to push too hard – no solids are required for this experiment…. [C:PIRILLO.EXE ~ Chris Pirillo]

This is going to get significantly nasty.

What are the democrats going to do when they hold the Presidency and have judges that they want confirmed?!

“It sets a terrible precedent”. “It sets a terrible precedent”: That’s what Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) has just said on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the Democrats’ filibuster of Miguel A. Estrada’s nomination to serve on the U. [How Appealing]

While Byrd sometimes sounds like an insane idiot when you listen to his speeches, I do respect him as the contrarian voice in the Senate…

A Box of Our Own Making. Senator Robert Byrd (D – WV) is to be applauded for today’s speech on the Senate floor in response to the Bush Administration’s insane rush to war. “We stand passively mute in the United States Senate, paralyzed by our own uncertainty, seemingly stunned by the sheer turmoil of events,” said Byrd. “On what is possibly the eve of horrific infliction of death and destruction on the population of the nation of Iraq — a population, I might add, of which over 50% is under age 15 — this chamber is silent. On what is possibly only days before we send thousands of our own citizens to face unimagined horrors of chemical and biological warfare — this chamber is silent. On the eve of what could possibly be a vicious terrorist attack in retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is business as usual in the United States Senate.” [kuro5hin.org]

West Wing in 38 minutes.  Fish and black beans.  Life is good.

Microsoft to tweak Office for Macs. The update will give Macintosh customers access to corporate calendar and contact information stored on a server running the software giant’s Exchange software. By Ian Fried, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]

I will definately have to make the next one…..

A reminder, tonight we’re having a live session here at Harvard. It’s not an intro to weblogs for newbies. I’m going to say that right up front. If you don’t know what a weblog is, you can hang out, and maybe we’ll get around to explaining what they are, and maybe we’ll only talk about other stuff. I have a few ideas. But we never know what’s going to happen at one of these until it’s over. Tonight’s session starts at 6:30PM, at Lewis International Law Center 301 on the law school campus, and will run between 1 and 2 hours. After we’ll go out and get some food somewhere (cheap) in the Havard Square area. It’s a good chance to meet other people in the weblog world in the Boston area. We’ll probably do these sessions pretty regularly through 2003 as the blogging activity bootstraps at Harvard.   [Scripting News]