Mike Cohen

I find that glowing mice

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I find that glowing mice make irresistable cat toys. While I was at MacHack I bought a Kensington Optical Elite mouse, which glows blue when it’s plugged in.

When I got up this morning, I found it on the floor. The same thing happened with my IntelliMouse Explorer, although Cody seems to ignore any mice that don’t light up.

What's left of the right

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What’s left of the right and what’s right on the left: EPO ratings, v2.0. We call ourselves and others “left-wing” or “right-wing” all the time. Yet these are two of the most abused terms in political speech. What do they mean, really? Are liberals left-wing, as Americans would say, or extreme right-wing as Austrians would tend to think about them?ÊWas Stalin left-wing or right-wing? How about Tony Blair? Bill Clinton? Left/right doesn’t really make sense. Here’s an attempt at an alternative way of labelling political beliefs. [note: This is a re-write of the story by the same title. Thanks for all the comments.] [kuro5hin.org]

Interesting article. Although I’m a member of the LP, I sometimes think they’re a bit too extreme. I guess I actually come closest to Classical European liberalism, EPO = 254. An extreme Libertarian is 155.

I just got home from

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I just got home from MacHack & posted a more detailed wrap-up here.

It looks like Aaron has some tough new competition. Adam Atlas is only 12 and he amazed everyone by taking first place in the “yoot” division & second-place overall with his hack, a Cocoa application which fetches RSS newsfeeds.

I'm at MacHack now. My

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I’m at MacHack now. My flight was uneventful & on-time. I got up at 5:30 this morning because the airport shuttle was supposed to pick me up at 6:45, but they didn’t show up until 7:20. I still haven’t slept.