] So, in 1964, Herman Miller's Action Office system was
] born. It started with a huge open area, sectioned off to
] give workers completely enclosed spaces if needed, or
] semi-enclosed spaces for a more social kind of privacy.
] Offices were arranged in such a way that workers would be
] likely to have plenty of contact with each other and with
] management. That meant planning for communal open space,
] too.

The cublicle turns 40....

Metropolis Feature: The Man Behind the Cubicle

]
] ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the
] U.S. District Court, Central District of California has
] issued an order dismissing VeriSign, Inc.'s anti-trust
] claims against ICANN, with prejudice. In dismissing
] VeriSign's anti-trust claims, Judge Matz noted that
] VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to
] sufficiently allege an anti-trust claim.

Today is a good day!!

VeriSign's Anti-Trust Claim Against ICANN Dismissed

] "What they saw were clear pictures of these young kids
] rioting. Chaos in their city." Next thing he knew,
] Richard Nixon had swept to presidential victory on the
] wings of a commercial proclaiming - above those
] selfsame pictures - that "the first civil right of
] every American is to be free from domestic violence."

An interesting historical perspective on the shit thats about to go down in New York. Swift Boat Veterans have already cost Kerry his lead (which is somewhat amazing to me, but people are stupid). No one is going to agree with the marxists who isn't already voting for Kerry. But plenty might disagree, which may put Bush over the top.

The marxists cost the democrats the election in 2000 by voting for Nader, and they may cost the democrats the election in 2004 by throwing a scene in the streets.

The Village Voice: Features: Get Mad. Act Out. Re-Elect George Bush. by Rick Perlstein

] Waxy has posted a Quicktime of the entire John Kerry
] interview on the Daily Show (Kerry proposes to hold the
] inauguration on the Daily Show!).

Note: BoingBoing now carries annoying, not exactly work safe Suicide Girls banner ad. I've nothing against the Suicide Girls but there are certain circumstances when you just don't want to pull that up on your screen.

Boing Boing: John Kerry on Daily Show

This is one of those things you just hate to post because you know, deep down, that its stupid, but its stuck in your head anyway, and you can't help it. Two deranged kittens singing about the challenges of being water soluble.

Soluble Song by Joel and Alex Veitch rathergood.com

But political assemblies on the eve of the Republican National Convention appear to be taboo. This week, city officials persuaded a federal judge to keep the park off limits Saturday to a protest rally by 75,000 people jointly sponsored by an Arab-American coalition and an anti-war group.

Yahoo! News - New York tramples Bill of Rights to protect 'grass'?

] As an intermediary, the OSP finds itself in a position to
] collect and store detailed information about its users
] and their online activities that may be of great interest
] to third parties. The USA PATRIOT Act also provides the
] government with expanded powers to request this
] information. As a result, OSP owners must deal with
] requests from law enforcement and lawyers to hand over
] private user information and logs. Yet, compliance with
] these demands takes away from an OSP's goal of providing
] users with reliable, secure network services. In this
] paper, EFF offers some suggestions, both legal and
] technical, for best practices that balance the needs of
] OSPs and their users privacy and civil liberties.

I wish Google would agree to drop the last two octets from IPs in their logs.

EFF: Best Practices for Online Service Providers

] The father then walked into the garage, picked up a
] propane tank, a lighting device and a can of gasoline he
] used to douse the van, police Capt. Tony Rode said. He
] smashed the van's window, got inside and set it ablaze,
] despite attempts by the Marines to stop him, Rode said.
]
] The Marines, reservists who are members of a military
] Casualty Assistance Calls Officer team, pulled Arredondo,
] 44, from the burning vehicle and extinguished the flames
] on him, police said.
]
] Arredondo was initially taken to Memorial Regional
] Hospital in Hollywood with burns over as much as 50
] percent of his body, emergency officials said.
]
] Melida Arredondo told the Miami Herald that her husband,
] an immigrant from Costa Rica, "was very proud of Alex
] serving," though he wished his service would have been
] during a "more peaceful" time.
]
] But Luz Marina Arredondo, Alexander's grandmother, felt
] the government was at fault for her grandson's death.
]
] "I blame them a lot," she said. "They send them like
] guinea pigs over there."

ABCNEWS.com : Man Burns Marine Van After GI Son's Death

] Tell us where you are, and we'll broadcast your location
] to all your friends and let you know if any friends-of-friends are within
] 10 blocks.

Someone put flashmobs to work. I'll be my friends in Nashville would use this.

dodgeball.com :: mobile social software

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

This is old but I guess I didn't pay enough attention to it before, or I confused it with another tool that I thought was lame. Its interesting. I like they way it looks but not how it works. Things get too small and they shouldn't
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d to organize text vertically. If the site was horizontal it would actually be useful.

newsmap