] Russell Simmons owns a loft facing ground zero. Since 9/11
] there's been extremely limited access to the building,
] but this morning our good friend, photographer Glen E.
] Friedman get in for a few minutes to make a statement
] which will be up through the RNC. Here's a bunch of
] pictures from inside and out.

The who of this is as interesting as the what. Kick ass loft. Got to be a few million.

seanbonner: Facing the WTC

] 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 U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday sided with
] Silicon Valley over Wall Street, voting overwhelmingly to
] largely preserve the current method of accounting for the
] cost of stock options.

Yeah!!

House says no to expensing options | CNET News.com

] "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!

To anyone watching, it seems like magic. To a user, it becomes indispensable.

Basically the idea here is that you design a GUI in which UNIX style "do one thing, do it well" utilities could be plugged in to offer particular capabilities instead of having all of these separate monolithic applications like spreadsheets or word processors where the world has to be reinvented every time. The way spell checking works in the Mac is that its offered at the OS level, and every application gets it everywhere as a virtue of running on the OS, instead of having to have each application implement its own spell checking system. Now imagine taking that concept to a deeper level. Instead of that being on the periphery, for little things like spell check, make it the heart, for big things like browsers or editors or viewers... What COM would be if it didn't suck.

Crafting a Revolution with the Brother of the Macintosh

] 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...)

] Following up on this BoingBoing post about allegations by
] journalist Seymour Hersh of rape and sexual abuse of
] minors at Abu Ghraib prison Iraq -- there appears to be
] evidence for those claims in supporting statements that
] accompany the Taguba Report.

This seems to be gaining steam. Its no longer hearsay, but a matter of official witness testimony.

Boing Boing: Evidence for Hersh's claims of child sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib?

] 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