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Dan Gillmor says he’s considering turning off comments on his blog because of comment spam. Further evidence of the damage a small group of the amoral can do to the commons.

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With further assistance from Hallski, my RSS feed now should have a “read more” liink for those really long posts.

I see on Footnotes that a new free software package, LiarLiar, has been released that claims to use “Voiice Stress Analysis” to detect lying. The blurb is carefully written to suggest that it’s something short of a lie detector – “Stress can be one indicator of whether or not a person is being truthful in …

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Seth Nickell on bad ATM user interfaces: Despite the fact that most ATMs only handle money in multiples of $20, they still require you to enter the “cents”. So asking for $40 entails the button sequence 4-0-0-0. I almost always withdraw $40, so I perform this series of presses without a lot of higher brain …

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