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For the record, I’ve left Engadget entirely, and have rejoined MacUser.

That friendly junior college down on the Peninsula has just caught a girl who was squatting in a dorm, faking the fact that she was a student for the better part of an entire school year. But better than that, points out SFist, is that there’s another fake student afoot: And this is the best part of the whole story! There’s another fake student at Stanford! Apparently a woman’s been squatting in one of the theoretical physics labs. For four…

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So while driving home from last night’s Nous Non Plus show at Café du Nord at around 12:30 am last night, I was pleased to see that the I-580 connector was reopened — I drove across it en route home. C.C. Myers sounds like a helluva guy, as in this previous anecdote about his getting part of I-10 in LA done on time in 1994. He rode his crews hard, praising, goading and yelling in equal measure. When he had…

Dude, how is it in that in four (ok, three) years at Berkeley, no one told me about the tradition of streaking through the Main Stacks? Damn, I missed out.

Slate: Cyberwar I: What the attacks on Estonia have taught us about online combat. By Cyrus Farivar Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at 12:14 PM ET In Estonia, you can pay for your parking meter via cell phone, access free Wi-Fi at every gas station, and, as of two months ago, vote in national elections from your PC. The small, wired country can now add another item to this list of technological achievements: It’s the first government to get targeted…

There’s a fantastic piece in today’s Times about the sad, sorry state of universities in Africa, and particularly, Senegal: Africa’s best universities, the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals, are collapsing. It is partly a self-inflicted crisis of mismanagement and neglect, but it is also a result of international development policies that for decades have favored basic education over higher learning even as a population explosion propels more…

I realize that I’m probably the only person among my peer group who watches/listens to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer even on a semi-occasional basis. Basically, my radio is either tuned to KQED or KALX, or I’m listening to music via CD/iPod. So that means if I happen to be listening to KQED between the hours of 3 and 4 pm, I catch part or all of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. On May 8, there was a ridiculous “debate”…

I’d heard some people talk about train links between North and South Korea when I was there last month, and now, it’s finally happened. For the first time since the Korean War that a train has crossed the DMZ. Yes, it’s historic and emotional and all that, but really, as Reuters points out, this deal is all about the money: To entice the North to allow the historic rail crossing, Seoul has offered $80 million in aid for its light…

I just found Paul Wolfowitz’ home address using Google. The New York Times just published the above picture of Paul Wolfowitz coming out of his Chevy Chase, Md., home. The street address, 7104, is clearly visible. So, as an experiment, I typed in 7104 chevy chase wolfowitz into Google. My first result came back with this: Report from Paul Wolfowitz demo at his 7104 Pinehurst Pkwy, Chevy Chase home. Wow.