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The Military Commissions Act, Illustrated

My good friend Chris Rugen simply and beautifully describes the new Military Commissions Act of 2006 with words and pictures.

The day after the Act was passed by the Senate, another good friend read this column by Garrison Keillor aloud to her family. Twice. (It’s that good.)

I hear the Act will certainly be overturned. But my questions are:

1. When? For how long will the US consider alienable what it once defined as unalienable rights?


2. How angry is the public? Will they remember this Act at the polls on Nov. 7?

Claiming My Series of Tubes

claimID is a service that assists web freaks like me — who have profiles and content all over the internets — to claim and organize the pages that are theirs. This way, when someone googles your moniker, they see the stuff you deem most worthy of your good name.

I also hope it will help differentiate me from the gerontologist, Dr. Stephen Coles, who continues to gain PageRank due to that story last month about the dude who lived to 112 despite a diet of sausage and waffles.

Here's my claimID page and a live listing of the links thereon:

Just in case you didn't catch the meaning behind the title of this post, “the internet is a series of tubes”.

Pitiful in Portugal

The photos from ATypI (the Euro type nerd conference) have come in, and, as you can see, everybody had a lousy time in Lisbon without me.

Thanks for pretending, friends.