Paul Krugman (noted economist, formerly of MIT [bio at NYTimes]) wrote a piece on 3/14 says that the dollar is not an issue.

Hmm, unlimited Sprint offer unlimited PCS Vision (3G CDMA 1xRTT, 144kbps Max) for $10/mo, apparently can be used w/ laptops. If a decent communicator (w/ Bluetooth) is available come October (when my T-Mobile contract ends), I’ll probably be reactivating my SprintPCS account.

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OK, I’m going to bed. Doing an Intermediate Web workshop tomorrow, unfortunately, lost last semesters presentation, so I’ve been redoing it. (It’s not really done (spot the deterioration as time goes on!), but whatever.) While I’m at it, I switched from using php.pres2 (good, but heavy and inconvenient) to Tantek’s presentation shell code (much more lightweight).

I’m still using most of his styles (removing as I get annoyed ;), although I’ve changed enough for it to highlight box model bugs in all kinds of browsers. I’ve also added a few features, like key events (very convenient) and slide permalinks (probably more useful). To do that, I’m taking advantage of the document.location.hash property. Haven’t used that in a long, long time. In keeping with the spirit, it is backwards compatible; I’ve added appropriately id/named anchors to each slide.

Sadly, I don’t think either of these will work with IE5 Mac, as well, I have no idea and am too lazy to experiment on how it does key events, and for both of them, I’m using event attachment, which I don’t think ie5mac supports either.

More via Lisa Rein: Not Oil, But Dollars vs. Euros

It’ll be interesting to see if these meme pops up more. This has been a looming issue for quite a while (see IHT Special Report in 1998:

Will Dollar Be Dethroned? Euro May Herald End of an Era, Why a Successful Euro Will Benefit US Interests, also Who’s Afraid of The Euro?). While some of these make light of the situation, who knows, I’ve been reading about the dollar crash since my friend turned into a gold nut. One only has to look at the markets to see that there is serious instability going on. (Want to do some hard math? Take a look at this Federal Reserve phone conversation)

If this whole Iraq thing is a play to stave off impending economic collapse, then it might make more sense why multiple (American, British, Australian) administrations are committing suicide over this thing. The oil/reconstruction angles would just be side plays, silver lining on an otherwise bad hand. Then again, it might just be gross incompetence.

Was everyone booing Michael Moore? You decide. There’s the complete Oscars video and the following Q&A (the Q&A is really good).

More Anti-War Songs:

• REM: Final Straw

It doesn’t hold. Now I don’t believe and I never did

That two wrongs make a right.

If the world were filled with the likes of you

Then I’m putting up a fight. Putting up a fight.

Putting up a fight. Make it right. Make it right.

• Green Day: Life During Wartime (no permalinks, boo)

Saw this on a blog this morning and I thought it had to be a joke, but, err… apparently not.

K-Dog, a bottle nose dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3, leaps out of the water while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Arabian Gulf, March 18, 2003. The multinational team is there conducting deep/shallow water mine countermeasure operations to clear shipping lanes for humanitarian relief. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Brien Aho

Zack de la Rocha & DJ Shadow – March of Death:

Without just cause or reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war. As i am writing this , bombs are raining upon the the defenseless civilians of bahgdad in a continuation of a policy that has already claimed the lives of over 1 million innocent iraqi people. People just like us who want democracy but find themselves cornered by a dictator on one side, naked U.S. agression on another, and the oil beneath theyre country; for which it appears they are to be massacred.

lies, sanctions, and cruise missles have never created a free and just society. only everyday people can do that. which is why im joining the millions world wide who have stood up to oppose the Bush administrations attempt to expand the U.S. empire at the expense of human rights at home and abroad. In this spirit im releasing this song for anyone who is willing to listen. i hope it not only makes us think, but also inspires us to act and raise our voices. – Zack de la Rocha, March 19th, 2003

Lyrics here, but they’re .GIFs w/o alt tags, completely inaccessible. I’ll let someone else transcribe, but it’s interesting to compare and contrast.

• SocialText has a PC Forum Wiki (PC Forum trackback)
• Live IP Law blogging from Rio at Corante.
• Sterling posts his NYPHP PHP5 presentation [note, get back to adding crap to pres2]
• related: coWiki, PHP5 based, well designed.
• Rael announces etech for cheap. Man, I want to go, but means I’ll be even less productive…
• The American Prospect: Just the Beginning: Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world? – sometimes I get the feeling that there are those within our country that hated the American way of life as much as the Al Queada.