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NYT’s Daniel Okrent: Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or Mass Distraction?: “Some of The Times’s coverage in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq was credulous; much of it was inappropriately italicized by lavish front-page display and heavy-breathing headlines”

World: Yahoo! News - From Thailand to Tonga, Asia faces a weighty new problem because some people think burgers, mac salad and turkey tail are tasty.

UGA: Ben Maller: “After 219 years, the University of Georgia could become the school with no name.” Gads.

USA: Bush 43 Keeps Saddam’s Pistol As a Trophy but maybe W should give to his father. After all, Sadaam tried to kill his dad.

Internet: I’ve been using Gmail for a week now. Rave: It’s the fastest e-mail interface I’ve ever seen. Very quick message retrieval. Single keystroke navigation. The conversation view is like threads with tabbed messages.

Rave: The Gmail spam filter works great OOTB. I had to write a few hundred lines of config code to make SpamAssassin work that well on my own mail server.

Rant: I do get related links on the right side of most e-mails. Sometimes these links are a good guess. Most of the time they are annoying. When I am reading a news alert from the New York Times, I don’t need to see related links about that newspaper.

But Gmail is free, so I’ll live with these tiny ads.

Idea: If Gmail would omit the related links, store my contact list and give me IMAP access to my messages, I’d pay a few bucks a month for the service.

Imagine a Gmail appliance… Google already sells a lemony-yellow rack-mount search appliance. Just hook a storage cluster into the back of your Gmail box, and you’ve got instant, scalable, web-enabled corporate e-mail.

Gmail could destroy Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.