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The Last Campaign: Briefly Noted: The New Yorker
Book review of a flawed hagiography of RFK. Are there any definitive books on the last campaign that are a little less one-sided?
(tags: books politics)

Exhillaration: Comment: The New Yorker
A review of the ending of Hillary’s campaign and its implication on the vote in the fall.
(tags: 2008 election hillaryclinton [...]

Steve Johnson at Pragmatic Marketing points to an interesting article on five different types of betas. One of Steve’s commenters suggests there is a sixth kind, the SaaS beta:
…ratchet up your release cycles to monthly, then you can call it a ‘release’ or a ‘beta.’ Either way customers get their hands on the new functionality. [...]

While I was in Pennsylvania, I helped my uncle move some junk out of the storage unit where we put some of my grandfather’s things. A few items held memories for me (I never could get comfortable on that fold-up metal cot, and was glad to see it go), but others were remnants: the boxes [...]

I came home from Pennsylvania on Saturday, which stands as one of the harder things that I’ve had to do. My aunt’s condition has been up and down. While I was there she was lucid, eating and drinking a little, watching the Phillies beat up St. Louis, and ornery (she complained to the nurses that [...]