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Matt Welch writes a hell of a war blog. I find almost every entry compelling. This one source is pointing me to huge amounts of useful follow-on writing. Terrific stuff. I love the web.

Did we bring the attack on ourselves? This is not an idle question these days, but a seminal one, critical to all further discussion. Did we bring the attack on ourselves? Truth or Consequences by William Saletan in Slate cuts the concept of “consequentialism” to ribbons. Found via Matt Welch.

Some evidence of the changing world from Google.com. Google Searches Related to 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.

It’s always good to see what other people are saying. We’ve been blowing it in the intel department for years. That goes for our government and us. Time to read sources like Al-Ahram Weekly, an Egyptian paper, to see which way the wind is blowing. Inasmuch as they’re willing to write in English and post to the web, there’s a lot we can learn very cheaply about what the world thinks.

Simon Schama’s essay in the Guardian. “… the best, the only revenge, when you’re fighting a cult that fetishises death, is life.”

MATLAB Programming contest rankings – mastermind

Read this and see if it annoys you as much as it annoyed me: Seumas Milne write in the Guardian They can’t see why they are hated. It’s good to read stuff like this, but that shouldn’t keep you from detesting it. I wonder if Mr. Milne thinks that the English simply don’t get why they are so disliked in Northern Ireland? Found via kottke.org.

I was reading a column in Fortune.com and came across a reference to William Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech. I read it. I felt better.

WebReview.com: August 24, 2001: This Old Blog: Home Improvement for the New Home Page

Walter Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal writes about GoToMyPC.com, a useful-sounding remote control service for running your home PC from any terminal in the world. Yet another cool service that is both valuable and extremely dangerous from the point of view of security. Incidentally, I keep up with Mossberg’s columns with Spyonit.com. It’s a great service.