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Granitar’s potential new digs. We are currently looking for a new building and this is the current front-runner.

Phil Donahue on why Nader should be in the debates.

A vigorous progressive voice is being silenced with what appears to be the quiet approval of the TV networks and most of the media. No stranger to Big Business, major media seem bent on marginalizing the only man in the race who wants more teeth in regulatory agencies, more enforcement of antitrust laws, total unqualified guarantees of all constitutional rights for gays, illegal immigrants and other minorities, more respect for privacy protections and due process, an end to the commercialization of children, fewer nonviolent offenders in jail and trade policies that protect powerless people here and around the world.

This is kind of depressing. Good thing I went for a run this morning.

Exercise may fight depression better than drug, study says.

Exercisers who had been in remission after 4 months were far less likely to see their depression return after 10 months, compared with people taking the drug or a combination therapy, the study found. Eight percent of exercisers saw symptoms come back, compared with 38 percent of those taking drugs and 31 percent getting both.

Maybe if I link to Joe’s blog he will update it more often. I should also point at that the title is very similar to another weblog.

According to articles like this one, Ralph Nader is polling at about 3 per cent. But reading say, Metafilter, I get the impression that Nader has about 33 per cent of the Internet vote, or at least the blogger vote. So, I’m polling my meager readership to find out what they think. Vote here. View results.

All hail Komrades Thompson and Ritchie.

We don’t know why [Unix is] good, but damn if our hearts aren’t stirred by the weighty, solidly angular goodness of it all.

This Gore Vidal interview in Salon seems pretty similar to the one from a month ago but it is getting more attention.

I’m in Atlanta until Friday, probably no updates until then.

Sony ups anti-SGI box to 64 PlayStation 2 chips.

Sony claims that will give the workstation the power to render 4.16 billion polygons per second, leading to frame rates of 60fps at 1980×1080 pixels. The company reckons that’s enough to render movie-level effects in real time.

osOpinion: Yet Another Problem With Windows 2000.

However, [Windows 2000] is still clearly nowhere near equal to Unix in terms of scalability, stability, and other key characteristics. And given its basic code and architecture, it is very unlikely that a series of service packs could allow it to catch up. With all this in mind, it is clear what is going to happen. At some point in the next few years, Microsoft is going to initiate another radical, billion dollar re-write, hoping to produce a new version–let us call it Windows 2005–in the hopes of finally catching up with Unix.

Computers can harm children: US group. These people should read The Diamond Age.

WHO Vows to Watch Expanding Global Waistline.

As many as 40 percent of cancers could by prevented by better diet, the WHO said at a 50-nation conference in Denmark.

Tonight: Phish.

Today’s reading brought to you in condensed form because I have no interesting commentary to add: The Ideology of Ease [via Slashdot] Big Brother Mutiny [via Metafilter] Moby — the birth of a salesman [via RobotWisdom]