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Archive for May 17th, 2006

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Your Monthly Reminder

that Radley Balko is the most important blogger in the United States.

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Call Detail Ruckus

Matthew Yglesias points out why the basic data-mining explanation for the collection of call detail records (and whatever else) from the major telcos makes no mathematical sense.
Mathematician John David Farley suggests some other things the NSA might “constructively” do with the data. James Joyner complains that Farley seems not to consider that the NSA may [...]

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Cause the US Army / Won’t Let Me Go Home

Benevolent hegemony rap! Fun.
What’s my takeaway? That woman at the Ramadi PX counter looks like she hails from well East of Iraq.