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Keith Olberman tells it like it is. Absofsckinglutely hitting the nail on the motherfscking head.

For people who’ve been in the software/web biz a longish time, “Zeldman’s diatribe”:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0 about the moniker regurgitation cycle resonates, but only so long as it sounds like you’re spreading wisdom and not just being a jackass. My favorite spot-the-fsck-on money quote:
But ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly [...]

Yeah, it’s Daily Kos. But goddamn that’s a good rant.

A nice “diatribe(Groupware Bad)”:http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html about the _groupware_ moniker that only jwz can deliver. From experience natch.

On the ever present tendency for bloggers (of the A-List variety in particular) to gravitate towards cliques, self-importance and fatuousness: it’s a little too cozy in the blogosphere:

What began as the ultimate outsider activity — a way to break the newspaper and TV stranglehold on the gathering and dissemination of information — is turning into [...]

How Not To Be A Sharecropper.

If you develop server-side software that runs on Unix (by which I mean any platform that runs bash and creates processes with fork(), which includes GNU/Linux, Solaris, AIX, and many others), you?re not a sharecropper. They?re not 100% compatible, but they?re enough alike that you can move around and [...]

An addendum to Rafe’s comment about the protests over the weekend, which I mostly agree with. I think perhaps the public is finally seeing overtly what American Government and Policy has always done covertly since the Cold War. Through the CIA and other organizations, the funding and arming of opposition and guerilla groups in various [...]

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
- Samuel Huntington via dear raed, an Iraqi blog.

Subtext is everything, especially when it comes to the Gulf wars. To wit.

John Le Carré: The United States of America has gone mad.

SFGate Columnist Mark Morford asks the question: Are Hummer Owners Idiots? A delightfully wicked anti-SUV rant. Here’s my favorite quote:

“Perhaps it is worth noting, in this time of imminent, useless war, when our country is being run by, essentially, a failed Texas oilman, that it might be about time to rethink our all-American, bigger-is-better, [...]

Here’s a real world example of a big-time Project Management fuckup: the complete breakdown of the Voters News Service (VNS) during the November 2002 elections. This is so textbook it’s not even funny: a mixture of poor communication among people and politics (of the workplace variety) with no clear person with final authority over [...]

An incredibly intelligent write-up from Tim O’Reilly about why Piracy is an issue only to those in the status-quo.