careful not to go blind.

The 10 worst Album Covers. Ever.

] As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an ancient
] pattern reemerges: the eruption of desperate, all-out
] wars over food, water, and energy supplies. As Harvard
] archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over
] resources were the norm until about three centuries ago.
] When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a population's
] adult males usually died. As abrupt climate change hits
] home, warfare may again come to define human life.

Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario

] A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from
] the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that
] legalized abortion.

CNN.com - Effort to reopen Roe v. Wade - Feb. 19, 2004

] Streaming media registered strong growth in 2003, with
] total video streams up by 104% to 7.8 billion and
] aggregate tuning hours for Internet music radio 53%
] higher when compared to '02.
]
] Some 78% of video streams served were viewed at
] broadband rates, according to a report published by
] AccuStream iMedia Research.

Internet Video Streams up by 104% in '03 to over 7.8 Billion

Someone explain to me how they film 0g scenes again. Is this whole movie going to be close cropped? I think Ender's Game would make a better anime then a movie. But I'm still excited.... Also, this is yet more evidence that all the good pop culture is coming from the geeks.

News about Ender's Game: The Movie

] Asked about the 2.6 million jobs forecast, McClellan
] said, "The president is interested in actual jobs being
] created rather than economic modeling."
]
] He quoted Bush as saying, "I'm not a statistician. I'm
] not a predictor."

I almost memed this. How long has it been since that interview? Thats fairly fast turn around time for a backpedal! I wonder if he blurted out the wrong number and they are running damage control.

CNN.com - White House downplays job predictions - Feb. 18, 2004

In case you didn't figure it out. This doesn't really work well if the Pepsi is cold.

MacMerc.com: How to never lose Pepsi's iTunes giveaway

] The current VOIP conversation at the FCC and in state
] commissions is as if government responded to Henry Ford's
] new invention of the automobile by discouraging the
] construction of roads, and instead taxing cars in order to
] subsidize canals and railroads. As a former government official
] I can only say: We can do better.

tingilinde: reed hundt on broadband

] There is no shortage of people to do any kind of
] decent-paying work in India, period. The Army turns down
] at least 19 out of 20 applicants who want to be enlisted
] soldiers, and turns down 49 out of every 50 officer
] candidates, who must have college degrees even to apply
] in most cases.
]
] This goes back to that whole "one billion people" thing.
] If a million of them work in "offshore" positions, that's
] only one out of thousand. Make it 10 million, and it's
] still only one percent of the population, and as the
] prosperity created by the 10 million working for offshore
] companies wends its way through the economy, more
] children will be able to go to school longer, which will
] make the workforce progressively more educated, which
] will increase the supply of potential employees for
] "first world" companies.

This is an interesting, sobering look at life in india.

Slashdot | Indian Techies Answer About 'Onshore Insourcing'

] The content available online is much less important than
] the manner in which it is delivered, indeed, the way the
] Web is structured. Its influence is structural rather
] than informational, and its structure is agnostic. For
] that reason, parental controls of the sort that AOL can
] offer gives no comfort to conservatives. It's not that
] Johnny will Google "hardcore" or "T&A" rather than
] "family values;" rather, it's that Johnny will come to
] think, consciously or not, of everything he reads as
] linked, associative and contingent. He will be
] disinclined to accept the authority of any text, whether
] religious, political or artistic, since he has learned
] that there is no such thing as the last word, or indeed
] even a series of words that do not link, in some way, to
] some other text or game. For those who grow up reading
] online, reading will come to seem a game, one that
] endlessly plays out in unlimited directions. The web, in
] providing link after associative link, commentary upon
] every picture and paragraph, allows, indeed requires,
] users to engage in a postmodernist inquiry.

The media is the message.

CTHEORY.NET : Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie