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Doing some site tweaking today. Apologies if you get multiple copies of the same article in your RSS reader.

Link Dump

I did see Orhan Pamuk last night, and will be seeing Farid Esack tonight (I will post details of that talk soon.) I do, however, have a huge backlog of interesting links I want to dump on you, and they will come in spurts over the next few days.

Technological shift at the White House

WaPo does a piece on the technological transition happening at the White House. In addition to the usual transition headaches regarding phones, emails, etc., apparently the WH is not equipped, legally, to allow the Web 2.0 operation to continue. Be interesting to see how this plays out, especially if we are to get a new iPhone app (please). Favorite line: “The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software.” At least their Windows was state-of-the-art. (sorry couldn’t resist)