] Cryptome received a visit today from FBI Special Agents.
]
] SA Renner said that a person had reported Cryptome as a
] source of information that could be used to harm the United
] States. He said Cryptome website had been examined and
] nothing on the site was illegal but information there might be
] used for harmful purposes.

FBI Visits Cryptome

The critics are wrong. There are flaws with the film, but it doesn't suck. If fact, it kicks ass. I HIGHLY recommend IMAX for this one even if it means waiting. You won't be disappointed.

] The second way the FCC's claims are deceptive is the more
] troubling of the two, and that is the compatibility
] problem I spoke of above. Arguably right now a TiVO or a
] DVD recorder with no tuner might not be covered, but
] after 2005, that same TiVO or DVD probably won't be
] compatible with the new FCC-governed DTV television set.
] ***THIS is the REAL problem. Whiles the FCC says the
] device is not covered, after 2005, in many cases it just
] won't work. ***

[Politech] Analysis of FCC's broadcast flag rules, from Ethan Ackerman

Our economic future is wedded to technological change, and most of the jobs of the future are still ours to invent.

This op-ed by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich appeared in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post.

High-Tech Jobs Are Going Abroad! But That's Okay

] FCC Chairman Michael Powell said his
] agency was taking "an important step toward preserving
] the viability of free over-the-air television."

Dude, you SOOOOO blew it...

FCC Approves Internet Anti-Piracy Tool

] This is no Neo wave like the pop cultural tsunami of the
] first Matrix. But it would have been nice to have ended
] the trilogy with a big bang, instead of a dull thud.

The critics rip the matrix...

Matrix's third ends it all with a dull thud - NOV 5, 2003

] Intravenous doses of a synthetic component of "good"
] cholesterol reduced artery disease in just six weeks in a
] small study with startlingly big implications for
] treating the nation's No. 1 killer.
]
] "The concept is sort of liquid Drano for the coronary
] arteries," said Dr. Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic
] cardiologist who led the study.
]
] Larger and longer studies need to be done to determine if
] the experimental treatment will translate into fewer
] deaths, but the early results are promising, said Dr.
] Daniel Rader, director of preventive cardiology at the
] University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
]
] The treatment used a laboratory-produced version of an
] unusually effective form of HDL, the good cholesterol
] that helps protect against heart disease by removing
] plaque, or fatty buildups, from the bloodstream.
]
] "This is clearly on the level of a breakthrough that will
] have far-reaching implications," pointing the way toward
] a rapid treatment for fatty buildups, said Dr. Bryan
] Brewer, chief of molecular diseases at the National
] Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

Kick ass!

New treatment works like 'liquid Drano for arteries'

] Ensembl presents up-to-date sequence data and the best
] possible annotation for metazoan genomes. Available now
] are human, mouse, rat, fugu, zebrafish, mosquito,
] Drosophila, C. elegans, and C. briggsae, Others will be
] added soon.

Surf the human genome!

Ensembl Genome Browser

Top 10 reasons why British people think poorly of American visitors:

...

8. They don't know who Guy Fawkes is. ("Who? Guy Fox? Nah, don't know him... Is he from New Jersey?")

The Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes

] Brad characterizes file-sharing as ripping off artists,
] and goes on to say that it is right to condemn people
] who get all their music without paying. And yet the EFF
] continues to tacitly endorse such file-sharing, running an
] ad campaign that says "file-sharing is music to our
] ears."

This is a good collection of links. I think the EFF supports file sharing because its popular to do so. Calling them on it is reasonable. Expecting them to solve all of the problems is not. There needs to be a serious effort to organize artists outside of the present system. The EFF has made motions in that direction, but they always feel a little like political stunts. They are too focused on the law and not focused enough on the music. We need something that is really music centric that works differently. We need a counter example.

[Politech] Reply to EFF over its position on RIAA, file swapping [ip]