] Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for
] the first time last week, those who want to send a
] message to President Bush must now navigate as many as
] nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts
] by asking whether the message sender supports White House
] policy or differs with it.

ummmmm...

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly

] Advanced scanning technology makes it possible to
] reconstruct documents previously thought safe from prying
] eyes, sometimes even pages that have been ripped into
] confetti-size pieces. And although a great deal of
] sensitive information is stored digitally these days,
] recent corporate scandals have shown that the paper
] shredder is still very much in use.

Wow!

Picking Up the Pieces

] CHICAGO, July 16 — Though he once opposed the idea, Gov.
] Rod R. Blagojevich said he would sign a bill on Thursday
] that would make Illinois the first state to pass
] legislation requiring police to record their
] interrogations of homicide suspects.

This should have been obvious...

Illinois Will Require Taping of Homicide Interrogations

] "AOL is divesting itself of something that was a bad
] decision in the first place. They found that the time,
] effort and money required to develop their own browser
] was just insurmountable in a world where the vast
] majority of Internet users use Internet Explorer," Smiley
] said.

About what I figured...

InfoWorld: AOL layoffs take Netscape browser to deathbed: July 16, 2003: By : Application Development

] Developing a new space plane in five years is a very
] short timetable. It took more than 10 years to get the
] shuttle flying. But the idea behind the new space plane
] is to make it simple, small and reliable, and not to
] break too much new technological ground.

If they have a conservative enough design, it is absolutely possible to do this ... but I expect NASA will probably drop the ball anyway...

WESH.com - News - NASA Works To Build New Spaceship

] The Recording Industry Association of America said
] Wednesday it sent out subpoenas to Internet service
] providers prior to filing lawsuits against hundreds of
] individuals who illegally distribute songs over the Web.

Sigh...

Wired News: RIAA's Flurry of Subpoenas

] Their legislation, introduced Wednesday, would punish an
] Internet user who shares even a single file without
] permission from a copyright holder with prison terms of
] up to five years and fines of up to $250,000.

Totally asinine.

House proposal targets file swappers | CNET News.com

] The Columbia astronauts lived for almost a minute after
] their final communication with mission control, well
] after signs that the craft was in serious trouble,
] investigators at NASA and the Columbia Accident
] Investigation Board said yesterday.

IMHO, the shuttle system has become a case study of how not to do large scale engineering. We need to mothball the shuttle and build a new system ASAP...

Crew of Columbia Survived a Minute After Last Signal

] Biologists and demographers are greeting with
] considerable enthusiasm a new theory of aging that
] extends Hamilton's idea and explains the features it
] doesn't account for well. The new theory, proposed by Dr.
] Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California
] at Berkeley, was published in today's issue of The
] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Why We Die, Why We Live: A New Theory on Aging

AOL has cut Mozilla loose. Not clear what AOL's motivation is; maybe cuddling up to M$, maybe just plain old cost cutting. Not obvious to me what this means for Mozilla. May be bad news in the short run since AOL was pumping a ton of cash into it...

mozilla.org