History suggests that the line between creativity and madness is a fine one, but a small group of people known as schizotypes are able to walk it with few problems and even benefit from it.

Print Story: Fine Line Revealed Between Creativity and Insanity on Yahoo! News

We are gearing up for the 2005 Loveparade in San Francisco on Saturday September 24th. This years parade starting location is at Market & 2nd Street and opens at 12 Noon. The parade is schedule to start at 1pm and parades west on Market Street to the festival location at Civic Center. Once at the festival area the floats will park and all the participants can enjoy the multiple genres of music that will be played. We are asking for a $5 donation upon entering the festival location, this will go to supporting our community partners and other national non-profit organizations.

Please join our newletter and be the first to know! This is not your ordinary parade. Instead of standing on the sidelines watching it go by, everyone is encouraged to dance in the streets with the floats as the parade moves by.

This rules. San Francisco needs this. Although many people in the city go to Burning Man it moved out of town early in its history and isn't tied directly to the city's culture. Halloween has always been a big deal in San Francisco but its also obviously not a local event and people who don't live in the city don't know about the revelry there. There are also various GBL celebrations but they obviously don't represent the whole city. This is something that can be broadly representative of the city's culture and has the potential to become a permanent fixture like Mardi Gras in NOLA or its elder version in Berlin.

Love Parade SF

The Secretary "is reviewing a wide range of possible changes in the way the
military could be used in domestic emergencies," Di Rita said Friday.
He said these included "possible changes in the relationship between
federal and state military authorities." Di Rita called the Posse
Comitatus Act "very archaic," and stated that it limited the Pentagon's
flexibility in responding.

I was thinking about this as I watched events unfold in New Orleans. I wanted the military to respond, but in the back of my mind I was concerned about the legal implications of that. I think the right way to handle this is to have federal first responders with security capability, perhaps organized by FEMA. There is a totally different tone that you take with domestic catastrophies versus enemies in war, even when people are rioting or shooting at rescue teams, and it is appropriate to have a rapid response capability that is properly trained to handle domestic threats.

Furthermore, Posse Comitatus is founded on solid philisophical principals that prevent the state from finding itself in a position where it is waging war on its own citizens. There is no reason emergency congressional authorization could not be obtained for the use of military force domestically if required. If Congress can't pass bills fast enough I can build a computer system that will fix that problem.

[Politech] How the Bush administration is eroding Posse Comitatus

TIM O'REILLY CREDITS NEW BOZO LOCATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HELPING TO INSULT HIS TARGET MARKET: UNINVITED LONE WOLF ASPIRANTS.

This is perhaps the most beautiful and strange commentary on FooCamp that I have seen.

BetterBadNews: Foo!

Thomas E. Noonan
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Internet Security Systems
The Cyber Security Paradox: National Security, Economics and Privacy in the 21st Century

The video is an hour long. Its the first time I've heard a credible connection made between Al'Q and computer crime, specifically phishing scams. Noonan also says that "privacy is dead" which reminds me of Scott McNealy. I don't think privacy is dead. I think there is a massive backlash in the works, but its going to take a disaster before people do something about the problem.

Tom Noonan on Computer Security

“If we could land the space shuttle on the moon, fill the cargo with canisters of helium-3 mined from the surface and bring the shuttle back to Earth, that cargo would supply the entire electrical power needs of the United States for an entire year,” he said.

US: UW scientists want to mine moon energy | EnergyBulletin.net | Energy and Peak Oil News

Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There are echoes of the iconic images of the past, but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot.

NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

"Honestly, most of the guys would have to recuse themselves."

Recruits Sought for FBI Anti-Porn Squad

Imagine that you somehow convinced policymakers that the auto industry could make cars that operated with no energy source at all. You could then demand that the auto industry make all sorts of concessions in energy policy, and you could continue to criticize them for foot-dragging no matter how much they did.

If you were using this ploy, the dumbest thing you could do is to set up your own “Perpetual Motion Labs” to develop no-energy-source cars. Your lab would fail, of course, and its failure would demonstrate that your argument was bogus all along. You would only set up the lab if you thought that perpetual-motion cars were pretty easy to build.

Which brings us to the movie industry’s announcement, yesterday, that they will set up “MovieLabs”, a $30 million research effort to develop effective anti-copying technologies.

This commentary is entertaining but Felton is missing the point. The movie industry doesn't want DRM that prevents "piracy," they want DRM that increases the scarcity of their product as far as regular users are concerned, ala DIVX, while also preventing fair use of the material.

Freedom to Tinker - Movie Studios Form DRM Lab

Some pics of NASA's new moon rocket concept.

A New Era of Space Exploration