This link is basically slashdotted right now... I don't think these people really understand exactly how much people do not like telemarketing... Anyway, hopefully it will clear up in a few hours and we can get registered...

National Do Not Call List Online

] Ex-Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
] re-emerged on Arab television screens claiming the U.S.
] released him after questioning.

He lives!

CNN.com - 'Comical Ali' re-emerges on TV - Jun. 26, 2003

] The National Do Not Call Registry will soon be open for
] business, putting consumers in charge of the
] telemarketing calls they get at home. The Federal
] Government created the national registry to make it
] easier and more efficient for you to stop getting
] telemarketing sales calls you don't want. You will be
] able to register online or by calling toll-free from the
] number you wish to register. Registration is free.

You can start adding your numbers to the do not call registry in July!

Federal Trade Commission - The Do Not Call Registry

] Weiss says the RIAA wanted to send a deterrent message
] others who had similar services up on their college
] campuses. "Nobody is above the law," she said. "And that
] is the important thing to remember here."

If these search engines are really search engines and not simply used for piracy then the RIAA, apparently, is above the law.

Messages sent:
1. In the United States of America you get exactly as much justice as you can afford.

2. The financial details of a court settlement are more important then the moral details.

3. The RIAA will get you even if what you are doing is only tangentally related to their interests.

ABCNEWS.com : Record Industry Targets Teen Programmer

] And our receptionist? She'd still be paying about 30
] percent, which means she would be contributing about 10
] times the proportion of her income that I would to such
] government pursuits as fighting terrorism, waging wars
] and supporting the elderly. Let me repeat the point: Her
] overall federal tax rate would be 10 times what my rate
] would be.

[IP] Buffett on dividend taxes

] PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Dawn Jenkins isn't in the new
] Jim Carrey comedy ''Bruce Almighty.''
]
] Her phone number, however, is - and that's a problem for
] the Pinellas Park glassmaker.

Real phone numbers in Bruce Almighty

] A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly
] show water travelling up each of them before it pours off
] the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next
] ramp.
]
] It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably
] the most memorable image of this year's show.
]
] Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch
] artist MC Escher (he of Gothic palaces where soldiers are
] eternally walking upstairs, and of patterns where birds
] turn into fish).

BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?

] OhmyNews is transforming the 20th century's
] journalism-as-lecture model, where organizations tell the
] audience what the news is and the audience either buys it
] or doesn't, into something vastly more bottom-up,
] interactive and democratic.

Ohmynews is what MemeStreams may become.

Mercury News | 05/18/2003 | A new brand of journalism is taking root in South Korea

] You no longer expect your grandchildren to live the same
] lives that you did, and your lives are very different
] from your parents lives. Today theres an axiom that the
] only constant is change. But what people dont recognize
] is that the world itself has changed because the greater
] change is accelerating. So our whole concept of what it
] means to be human is going to be changing, and it is
] going to be merging with our technology.

In these slow times a reminder of the sort of thinking that drove the technology community 10 years ago is work having. This is a sort interview with Ray Kurzweil.

[IP] Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change

] So far, information technology has thrived on
] exponentials. Now it has to get back to earth

Its over. Go home.

IT Growth: Exponential No More