] In other words, anyone viewing a Webcast of material that
] falls outside of copyright--such as a government-created
] documentary or a very old movie or audio recording--may
] not be able to freely store and redistribute that
] content.

Big webcasters have tipped their hand. They are now a worse threat then the RIAA. They have created an international treaty which makes it illegal to rebroadcast public domain material that someone has webcast unless the webcaster also disclaims "rights." This is unfathomable. Just like the DMCA, this law takes public domain material and makes it unavailable to the public. This isn't even about once copyrighted works not entering the public domain. This is about works that were never copyrighted being sucked out of the public domain.

Treaty could cast shadow on Webcast rights | CNET News.com

] On 21 September 2002, The Memory Hole posted an extract
] from an essay by George Bush Sr. and Brent Scowcroft, in
] which they explain why they didn't have the military push
] into Iraq and topple Saddam during Gulf War 1. Although
] there are differences between the Iraq situations in 1991
] and 2002-3, Bush's key points apply to both.
]
] But a funny thing happened. Fairly recently, Time pulled
] the essay off of their site.

The Memory Hole: Reasons Not to Invade Iraq, by George Bush Sr.

] NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Now that the national
] do-not-call list makes it impossible to reach millions of
] potential customers, some marketing companies are
] returning to an old-fashioned alternative: door-to-door
] salespeople.

Oh god no... Please....

CNN.com - Do-not-call list revives door-to-door sales - Nov. 10, 2003

] Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating
] the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to
] make us safe -- because in the long run, stability cannot
] be purchased at the expense of liberty. As long as the
] Middle East remains a place where freedom does not
] flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation,
] resentment, and violence ready for export. And with the
] spread of weapons that can bring catastrophic harm to our
] country and to our friends, it would be reckless to
] accept the status quo.
]
] Therefore, the United States has adopted a new policy, a
] forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East.

Read this. This is Bush in rare form. Its probably the best I've heard out of him. It might be the best he'll ever offer. This is certainly the most positive perspective on current events that I've heard since before the market crashed. It is a hopeful and intelligent vision. Its something worth fighting for.

There is this nagging voice that keeps telling me to take a shot at him for ways that I think his policies diverge from these ideals. I'm not going to. This speech deserves to stand on its own. And Saffire was right, you ought to read it.

President Bush's speech at the National Endowment for Democracy

] For the first time in our history, American citizens have
] been seized by the executive branch of government and put
] in prison without being charged with a crime, without
] having the right to a trial, without being able to see a
] lawyer, and without even being able to contact their
] families.

Increasingly I must insist that brevity is genius, but many of you will enjoy watching Gore rip the President a new one for paragraph after paragraph, even if the material might be redundant for you. If 9-11 made everyone more radical, here you can really see how deep the chasm is between the left and the right. What I will say is most interesting is that Gore is even fair. He is careful, for example, to acknowledge that some of the sections of the Patriot act aren't unreasonable.... And yet he still has much to complain about.

Al Gore reads the administration the riot act.

] The purpose of this project is to construct a high
] quality working model of a homemade HERF device built
] from microwave oven components.

This is positively one of the coolest hacker sites I have ever seen. This dude is a bad ass.

Voltage Labs

] Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete,
] up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. It is
] built in collaboration by Wikitravellers from around the
] globe. So far we have 634 destinations, itineraries,
] travel topics and other articles. Check out the Help page
] to see how you can edit any page right now.

Started in July.. Its still pretty new, and doesn't have content for many places yet. However, if the Wikipedia is any example (it is), this is going to be awesome. Lonely Planet, only anyone can contribute.

Main Page - Wikitravel

] The appeals court disagreed, noting that ``in the wake of
] a mass atrocity and in the midst of an investigation that
] galvanized the nation, Awadallah did not step forward to
] share information he had about one or more of the
] hijackers.''
]
] Awadallah's failure to come forward established probable
] cause for his arrest, the court ruled. The FBI found
] Awadallah after his phone number was discovered in a
] hijacker's car.

You do NOT have the right to remain silent.

] Alarmed by the unhealthy choices they make every day,
] more and more Americans are calling on the government to
] enact legislation that will protect them from their own
] behavior.

Americans Demand Increased Governmental Protection From Selves

] M Ken Co has developed technology that allows users of cell phones
] with a camera function to photograph an advertisement containing an
] electronic watermark and then immediately connect to a related website.

Smartest application for watermarks ever. This is a way to interconnect the real world the network. I think the applications are absolutely fantastic. This is going to be big.

If anyone on Memestreams owns a camera phone please contact me.

Watermarks connect IRL objects to the web...