"My script, bdexp, compiles a 'neighbourhood' view of a weblog URL by following the 'links to' information for that URL in Blogdex."

Analyze weblog interlinking

"As Brin sees it, security and privacy shouldn't be construed as rivals: Instead, he says, everyone will be safer if the government knows a lot -- within reason -- about its citizens, and if Americans know a lot more than they do now about how the government uses their information. "

The anti-cypherpunk philosophy has been gaining ground lately. Its an easy way "out" and people will just give in to it. Information wants to be free...

BW Online | June 5, 2002 | Privacy vs. Security: A Bogus Debate?

Visitors subject to the increased scrutiny will be from countries considered by the United States to be sponsors of terrorism and other unspecified nations that critics said are likely to be Middle Eastern.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Unveils Fingerprint Plan, Angers Arab Groups

Now it is easy to see why the German and European Internets were convenient staging areas for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States-the perpetrators' Internet traffic had a tiny chance of being surveilled by either the United States or United Kingdom, nations that lost citizens in the New York City attack. Liikanen's emphasis on "human rights" and respect for "rules of law" last September now looks more akin to misplaced delight about keeping American and British snoopers out of the EU communications system rather than support for principles that should govern and pervade Internet use.

Lightwave - fiber-optic communications, bandwidth access and telecommunications

Hrm. Crypt Digest once called Time magazine "The Magazine for people who don't think." However, they managed to interview Ray Kurzweil. This article is biological metaphors in computing.

TIME.com: High Tech Evolves

"But again that's not a big use. That's a niche use. And it turned out to be a series of niche products that weren't as important to the economy as we thought, and a couple of huge wins like Amazon and eBay, although they were valued too high at certain points. "

The internet doesn't matter.

Talk with TheStreet.com's founder

"Inadvertently or by design (no one is quite sure which), the new law will transform lobbying groups into the piggy banks of the political world. Parties will no longer be able to accept those unlimited donations called soft money, but trade associations and labor unions can take as much as they please. The more established the group, the more likely it will act as a conduit for advocacy."

Fortune Small Business - How to Get Cash and Influence People

Various US Census tables. Some interesting factoids here if you dig...

County and City Data Book: 2000

"On the following pages, you will be invited to imagine a simple scene, and you will be given a space in which to write down what you imagine. Be as detailed and exacting as you'd like. This is your game and your private adventure. There are no right and no wrong answers, so let your imagination run free."

I think this is silly, but its fun. The sort of ladder you imagine has more to do with the sort of ladders you've used in the past then what you think about your friends...

Cube Game

"But those who believe in biblical literalism, I can't understand it. Their view of life and sensibility depends on that literality."

This must be one of his last interviews.

Questions for Stephen Jay Gould