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For the time being I’m only stealing links from Jeff.
He helpfully points out some recent work showing that most so-called “valid XHTML” really is no such thing.
These sources have more on why:

Surfin’ Safari
Anne Van Kesteren
Mark Pilgrim
Ian Hickson

One big reason: there’s no good way to serve XHTML to all browsers with a valid […]

Torture works.
Thanks to ABC correspondent Brian Ross, we know that several high-level Al Qaeda members in U.S. custody broke down under expert interrogation - some lasting for mere seconds, none more than just over two minutes. In the process, they gave up valuable information leading to the arrest of several operative and the foiling […]

When a burglar breaks into a house, is it the fault of the thief, or the fault of the homeowner for having insufficient security?
Or maybe, just maybe, is it both?
The Crime
The good folks at RedState rightly condemn two recent episodes in which Democratic operatives have broken into supposedly secure areas of political web sites to […]

Some people are a little jazzed up about the new season of Battlestar Galactica. Then there are some people who are a little too jazzed up, like the good folks at Frak Party.
Link via that frakker Jeff.

Consumerist reports that - suprise! - Cingular continues to find new ways to screw its customers.

Beckie is a reader who started out with a cell phone from a small company that got bought by AT&T. As you well know, AT&T was bought by Cingular. A few months later, Beckie received a letter from Cingular asking […]

So, anyone got some bootleg copies of Snakes on a Plane?
Oh, wait, wrong kind of pirate. And this shirt would still be a great gift for me (size XXL, pelase).

Security expert Bruce Schneier wanrs us that RFID-enables passports are being rolled out soon and the time to replace your old one is now, before the rollout is complete:

RFID chips don’t have to be plugged in to a reader to operate. Like the chips used for automatic toll collection on roads or automatic fare collection […]

Jeff:

When I was a kid we had a word for people who were more concerned with being safe than with doing what’s right.
We called them cowards.

Could I possibly have anything to add?

All quarters should begin with an FSU touchdown. That is my new policy. FSU ties it, 10 - 10, virtually guaranteeing this game comes down to a field goal.
A couple of very nice passes by Weatherford, and then we’re visiaully assaulted by Holly Rowe and her now-uncovered hathead. Could someone please keep […]

First rule of the shotgun: catch the shotgun.
Really, this multiple camera angle approach on ESPN2 would be so much more interesting if there were a camera in the cheerleaders’ locker rooms. I really don’t care what the line judge is looking at.
First running yards of the season? A pointless run by Weatherford. […]

On first sight, that Jenkins catch was out of bounds. Watching the replay, he had both feet in bounds, but the play is under review. I don’t think this one will get called back. Bad position for the good guys.
Or, we can just take fifteen yards back by sodomizing your QB. […]

Miami flushed almost its entire coaching staff in the off season, booting everyone but Head Coach Larry Coker and the Ibis - possibly the dumbest mascot in all of college football, even counting the Delaware Blue Hens. The inexperience of this maiden coaching crew shows in the team’s play: Miami’s committed two very […]