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Here’s what honesty gets you on the Wall Street Journal 

The reporter who wrote the striking email about conditions in Iraq has been shunted aside by her editors. Laura Rozen comments: “What a way for the newspaper that employed Daniel Pearl to honor the brave. Honestly, if I had a subscription, I would cancel it.”

Scientific explanation 

Steve Sailer has written a very interesting account of ethnic nepotism as an explanation of the fierce resistance to foreign occupiers in Iraq — and many other phenomena. It all derives from the great WD Hamilton.

Get angry, get even 

One of the best angry critiques of a terrible user interface I’ve seen is Tom Coates’s deconstruction of the London bus ticket machine. I knew that I couldn’t be the only person to be terminally frustrated with these beasts. The post is also an excellent demonstration of some of the capabilities of Flickr.

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