Grab bag: The August everything fell apart?

Useful runthrough and disemboweling of various talking points against the administration’s healthcare proposals.

On the current healthcare riots vs. the Social Security discussions: “Indeed, activists made trouble in 2005 by asking Congressmen tough questions about policy. Activists are making trouble now by shouting Congressmen down so they can’t be heard.”

It’s always nice to see going after the truth in a more confrontational way than “he said, she said” journalism usually does, but this is great.

I would be irresponsible if I didn’t post the mildest example of this phenomenon, as spotted on Twitter: “If Bill Clinton wants to bring two girls home, not even North Korea can stop him.” I’m very impressed with the rescue operation, seriously, but there’s no way the jokes won’t come, “derangement syndrome” or no.

Julie Powell’s reflection on the water under the bridge.

The comments section sums up the attack on Julie Powell nicely. The attacks are childish, mean-spirited, and more than a little sour-grapes. I remember reading the original blog avidly back in the day, and can’t wait to see the movie.

Using unsupported formats in iTunes. Looks good until you try to sync to an iPod.

An optimistic view of the likelihood of IE6 going away. To which I say: yes, but if the corporate intranet applications all break under IE7 (not unlikely), it’ll be a cold day in hell before the poor users ever see a real browser.

Harry Patch was 109.