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Racial fantasists at the Economist (27 Jun 09) and National Review (20 Jul 09) offer penetrating analyses of Obama’s efforts to unfubar healthcare: See also: “Size matters.

BBC, “Billions stolen in online robbery” (3 Jul ’09): Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the credit crunch. One of the game’s biggest financial institutions lost a significant chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank. One of the bank’s controllers stole about 200bn [...]

Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s incoming supremo, twat: Someone wrote that the spirit of Jon Postel would support my service at #ICANN. May it be so. He’s the legend that got it all going. See also: “Necromancy,” “Giving necromancy lots of chances.”

Softpedia (6 Jul ’09): Customers of Eircom, the largest Internet service provider in Ireland, experienced serious DNS slowdowns and weirdness over the weekend. Users from different parts of the country reported that trying to open legit URLs in browsers redirected them to advertising pages. Some of them suggested on forums that there were two separate [...]