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The ACLU discusses the outrageous “procedure” for the military commission trial of Canadian Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr.

“Senior officers say the program does come in handy when the goal is not imparting information, as in briefings for reporters.”

Via Kottke

Brilliant!

I agree with this: O’Reilly’s books look great on the iPad. I just bought a couple from oreilly.com (they’re 2-for-1 right now with code “BYEBK”), and I’m impressed with their approach. Each book is DRM-free, and you can download it in PDF, mobi and ePub formats (the latter of which works in iBooks on the iPad), or you can install it into Ibis Reader.

For comparison, I tried a Kindle version of another technical book (from a different publisher) and I was very disappointed. Important formatting elements from the print version were not preserved, such as using a different font to differentiate code samples from descriptive text. Formatting and layout isn’t such a big deal for novels, but they’re downright imperative for reference books. O’Reilly’s Kindle editions do preserve formatting, but even still, either their own ePub editions are nicer, or iBooks just does a much better job than the Kindle app for iPad.

Compare how the same page looks in iBooks vs Kindle for iPad:

Lukas Mathis outlines a short, sweet design for improving the usability of footnotes on web pages.

As someone who works from home myself, I agree with just about everything in this article except the term “telecommuting”—I almost never talk on the phone.

The Library of Congress plans to archive everything ever written on Twitter. Wow.

Will the iPad save publishing? Khoi Vinh doesn’t think so.