] I can understand the desire by l.e. officers, to keep their home
] addresses and other personal information confidential. But it's
] unclear why their privacy rights should be any greater than many
] others.

Some animals are more equal then others.

Jim Warren on why police shouldn't have special privacy rights [Politech]

] "The finding that is perhaps of most interest to bloggers
] is that there doesn't seem to be a power law distribution
] of links to political bloggers...

I guess memestreams would grow faster if it picked a side.

Boing Boing: Political bloggers don't follow the power-law distribution

] A man standing near an SUV parked behind the Gaylord
] Opryland Hotel was killed when the SUV exploded late
] Tuesday night.
]
]"What we know is we had a hellish explosion in a vehicle that
] killed a man here last night," said Jim Cavanaugh, spokesman
] for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
]

What the hell is going on in Nashville!?

Car Bombing at Opryland Hotel!

] A judge in Glynn County voided the election results in an
] education board race after a poll worker posted a
] misleading sign.

Just a note on the present hysteria over election postponement, which I believe has riled up some democrats for no reason other then because someone in the administration proposed it. We reschedule elections when people accidentally post misleading signs. You would think a terrorist attack would be a little more serious then that.

On terrorist attacks and elections

] Today Boing Boing and Gizmodo linked to a company selling
] a bottle cap tripod. It%u2019s a good idea and something
] that can be made for about $1.50 worth of parts.

Bottle Cap Tripod (my pepsi bottle has five feet so I suppose it's a pentapod...)

] The world's first bottle cap tripod by Yodobashi. It
] magically turns a bottle into a tripod, ideal for night
] shot and self protrait. The bottle cap tripod fits
] bottles with 28.5 to 30.5mm diameter.

Smart.

Bottle Cap Tripod for Digital Camera from Japan

Jacobson has posted a followup to her story in which she begins to sound like Bill O'Reilly. You can forget about this story. I can't think of her as credible at all after reading the paragraphs I quote here.

] The fact that I quoted Ann Coulter seems to have many people up in arms.  I want
] to be clear -- there is no political agenda here.  I quoted Ann Coulter
] for the information she had, not for who she is.  Read the quote again
] and pretend Joe or Jane Doe wrote it.  She states the facts. The facts she states
] are that 10 days after 9/11, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta sternly
] reminded airlines that it was illegal to discriminate against passengers based on
] their race, color, national or ethnic origin or religion.
]
] Perhaps the title of Michael Smerconish's new book sums it up: "Flying Blind. How
] Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11."

Part II: Terror in the Skies, Again? - Yeah, it was bullshit

] Befitting the clashes around the design, the Freedom Tower
] itself is now in doubt: it might not reach its symbolic
] height and, if it does, it will probably do so with the
] help of antennae. Likewise the centrepiece memorial is
] being designed by Michael Arad, who won the commission in
] a contest, and it will not be sunk into the ground, part
] of Libeskind's plan that had been praised by Pataki.

Yuck.

Freedom tower design in doubt

] "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional
] right to vote for electors for the President of the
] United States," the court said, "unless and until the
] state legislature chooses a statewide election as the
] means to implement its power to appoint members of the
] Electoral College."

Usurping the Voters (washingtonpost.com)

] A BILL to amend Chapter 5 of Title 21 of the Official
] Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elections, so as
] to... establish a voter information commission...

Apparently this didn't pass.

GGA - HB 326 - Elections; publicly financed campaigns; voter information commission