"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the Bush administration to use caution before any military action against Iraq."

CNN.com - Clintons urge caution on action against Iraq - August 31, 2002

Davis and Diana Dorothy Burton of Murfreesboro are charged with conspiracy to defraud two Beaumont, Texas, residents -- Dr. Glen G. Guillet and Robert Littell -- by giving them regular U.S. passports that had been altered to looked like diplomatic passports in exchange for $100,000. "

CNN.com - Tennessee legislator arrested - August 30, 2002

"Do you want an original and dynamic logo, designed at a reasonable price? "

I want to plug these folks too. They cleaned up the MemeFactory image used in the cafe press store (which will be open soon...). Whats more, they did it on a Saturday with no notice at a very good price. This is definately a good place to turn for your business graphics needs.

LogoFusion: Creating your Perfect Logo !

"ICG Link, Inc. provides colocation and rackspace for Nashville area clients in our cabinets at the Nashville Inflow data center where you will appreciate the highest security and most reliable network connectivity available."

I'm getting my colocation from these folks. Figured I'd give them a plug. They are reselling inflow in a form thats attractive to sites like mine that don't require half a rack. I think you'll notice that the speed of the site is greatly improved despite the fact that its on a computer which is about half as powerful as the one it was previously hosted on. The reason? Time Warner Telecom's backbone is over-subscribed.

Nashville Area Colocation and Rackspace

"I'd like to thank JLM for the work he did in helping me put together a search engine for MemeStreams. You should notice it all around the site now. "

This page provides some explanation of how to use the search engine. Hopefully this feature will turn the site into something that you can use for everyday knowledge management tasks. Throw those interesting links in your memestream and dig them up later when you need them... We'll keep 'em warmed up and read to roll.

Search Engine for Memestreams!!

The Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data traffic and will push private network operators to expand their data-gathering initiatives, according to an unreleased draft of the plan.

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Howard Schmidt, vice chairman of the CIPB, said the center would consolidate threat data from the country's collection end points, such as the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, the Department of Energy and commercial networks.

Private companies would also be encouraged to increase the amount of data collected and share it with the government. "Major companies generally report this information internally," Schmidt told eWeek. "We're looking for that to come back to a central location."

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Riiight...

Bush to Call for Fed NOC

...could make up the majority of message traffic on the Internet by the end of 2002, according to data from three e-mail service providers. "

News: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic

""We've not seen any improvement in the current IT spending environment. In fact, some would say it might actually be worsening," Chief Financial Officer Steve McGowan said during a conference call with financial analysts. "

IT outlook darkens Sun's revenue view - Tech News - CNET.com

"The former U.S. attorney general has become the tool of left-wing cultists who defend Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Rwandan torturers as anti-imperialist heroes."

Salon News | Ramsey Clark, the war criminal's best friend

This week, a federal court of appeals declared that "democracies die behind closed doors" and demanded that Attorney General John Ashcroft open up the immigration hearings for suspects connected to Sept. 11 roundups. But wherever the courts open one door, Ashcroft and the Bush administration manage to close another. And so we find ourselves in peril of losing the right to search warrants granted by real judges in real courts, as the attorney general again attempts to drag the Constitution into dark caverns and windowless towers.

This is a good article on its own merit but I want to raise a tangental issue. Slate uses the word "bitch" in this article. Slate. These are the guys who showed up deriding all the pundits like Brock Meeks who claimed that the Internet wanted opinionated journalism in common language rather than the traditional media fare of high brow faux objectivity. Slate obviously gave up on that. At least the net pundits were right about something. :)

Secrets and Lies - Seventy-five little reasons to be terrified of the FISA court. By Dahlia Lithwick