"Now a series of legal actions has brought the debate into the labs, homes and offices of millions of programmers, prompting some of them to emerge from their cubicles and take action. This time, as they say, it's personal. "

Programmers enroll in political training - Tech News - CNET.com

"Corporate America has lost its way. Here's a road map for restoring confidence. "

FORTUNE - System Failure

"Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?"

Salon.com Technology | Not the real Slim Shady

"advisers determined it was not a good idea to move the FBI -- a critical arm of law enforcement -- away from the Justice Department."

Looks like they stopped a little bit short of completely changing the FBI's focus....

CNN.com - Source: Plan to move FBI to new department rejected - June 8, 2002

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Henry David Thoreau
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau rulez!

Henry David Thoreau Quotations - The Quotations Page

Summary from ICT Today: The University of California in Berkeley has made a breakthrough in its programme to develop a robot fly weighing less than a paper clip which can leave the ground and hover in mid-air. Scientists have constructed a wing mechanism that can flap and rotate at 150 times a second.

Recent discoveries about the way flies use their wings have helped the project considerably. A real fly has a 'delayed stall' which enables the beating wings to have a high angle of attack and high lift at the same time. 'Wing rotation' at the bottom and top of the stroke gives the insect more lift, and 'wake capture' provides even more lift by swishing back through air it set in motion on the previous stroke. The scientists' version of the wing is made from polyester and a stainless steel strut that flaps and rotates. Still to come is a lightweight power source, a gyroscope to tell up from down, and a light sensor. A microprocessor with a small operating system has already been developed. Eventually it would carry sensors chosen for a specific use.

Big brother will be watching you...

Robotic fly gets its buzz

Precrime. It works.

Citizens for a Murder Free America

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

I just wanted to comment on this quote. Maybe the line between things that are alive and things that are not alive is that living things act purposefully to their own advantage, whereas things that are not alive are too simple to do so or simply aren't working correctly.

Isaac Asimov Quotations - The Quotations Page

I tried screaming at my TV, telling the news anchor he was wrong! I have first hand information! Yelling at the newspapers doesn't help much either. Writing on the Web does."

Adam Curry (yes, THAT one) talking about the problems with the mainstream press in the context of a recent assasination in Holland.

DaveNet : Adam Curry: The Big Lie

" The Weblog Neighborhood tool only looks at subscription lists. It visits all the sites you're subscribed to, looking for sites that point to their subscription list, and then harvests those, and recurses up to three levels deep (this is configurable)."

Radio UserLand : New tool: Weblog Neighborhood