] Believe it or not, the following projections are made by
] an advisory service whose 2004 target for the Dow Jones
] Industrials Average is 9,400 -- some 1,200 points below
] where it closed on Tuesday.

Value Line's forecast for the Dow in 2004

] The United States Natural Law Party is a United States
] political party affiliated with the international Natural
] Law Party. It is closely associated with Maharishi
] Mahesh Yogi, leader of Transcendental Meditation, a
] belief which holds the view that natural law is the
] supreme organizing priniciple that governs the universe.
] Adherents believe that all political problems can be
] solved through meditation.

Apparently my political views score most closely to that of the natural law party. The natural law party sounds like a bunch of lunatic spiritualists to me. Talk about coming at a solution from a different angle...

United States Natural Law Party - Wikipedia

I've decided to rerecommend this. This site is really a wealth and it easy to overlook the details. Every issue has a link to a detailed discussion of what the different answers mean. You can check your opinions versus presidential candidates, popular political figures, and you can also have it give you a detailed explanation of your positions versus democrats, republicans, libertarians, and authoritarians. Its a much, much better assessment the the "five questions" quiz. There are a few things that are funny about the site, such as the use of the word "authoritarian" in most cases unless discussing an actual politician who scored that way, in which case the word "populist" is used.

I scored most like Jesse Ventura, John Kerry (My biggest disagreement with him is that he is too supportive of China.), and apparently the "natural law" party candidate... More on that in a moment.

VoteMatch Quizzes

] A Danish biotech company has developed a genetically
] modified flower that could help detect land mines and it
] hopes to have a prototype ready for use within a few
] years.

Yahoo! News - Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines

] The Mounties raided the home and office of a newspaper
] reporter yesterday, looking for evidence that one of
] their own officers may have leaked damaging allegations
] in the politically charged Maher Arar case.

The police are raiding a journalist for revealing that the guy they inappropriately deported to syria might be a bad guy after all? Meanwhile, the guy has filed suit against the US, and the US still claims he is a terrorist, but the PM of Canada says he isn't. You want political drama, its all here.

[Politech] Canadian cops raid reporter's home in probe over leaks [fs]

] Just in time for today's New Hampshire primary, here's a
] candidate scorecard. It rates members of Congress on how they voted
] on technology-related legislation and awarded them a score
] of 0 to 100.

This is interesting, but also lacking. There is hole here that needs to be filled.

[Politech] Where Democratic presidential candidates stand on tech

... and this is spooky's website. Some really cool audio streaming from here...

DJ SPOOKY that subliminal kid

DJ Spooky's Magazine. Jaron Lanier, Barabasi, Coldcut, Hackers, Remix culture, Big Brother, Islam, Drugs and, of course, Genesis P-Orridge... This is it...

21C Magazine

] A mass-mailing virus quickly spread through the Internet
] on Monday, compromising computers so that they attack the
] SCO Group's Web server with a flood of data on Feb. 1,
] according to antivirus companies.

That annoying virus in your inbox is an attack on SCO. Can someone tell the angry virus writing youth that as much as we understand their feelings this actually isn't helpful to anyone.

New virus infects PCs, whacks SCO | CNET News.com

] LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has declared
] unconstitutional a portion of the USA Patriot Act that
] bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups
] designated foreign terrorist organizations.

Federal Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act Unconstitutional (washingtonpost.com)