Except for Tenet's Friday departure, details were not disclosed for security reasons, including even his precise destination.

Off he goes, but what he'll accomplish, nobody knows. Perhaps his actions will serve to strengthen those who might oppose Arafat in the much-talked-about future Palestinian presidential election.

Tenet to Rebuild Palestinian Forces

Attorney General John Ashcroft has a gift for making the most draconian policy changes sound seductively innocuous. He was at it again yesterday, describing new domestic spying powers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as nothing more than the authority to surf the Internet or attend a public gathering. That is profoundly misleading. In reality Mr. Ashcroft, in the name of fighting terrorism, was giving F.B.I. agents nearly unbridled power to poke into the affairs of anyone in the United States, even when there is no evidence of illegal activity.

The New York Times is clearly unhappy with recent changes at the FBI. But they seem to be narrowly focused on the negative privacy implications, while not assessing the likelihood that these changes will prove (in)effective in "preventing" future acts, or that they will disrupt the FBI's responsibilities with regard to law enforcement.

An Erosion of Civil Liberties

This appeared on slashdot, its worth reforwarding. A datasheet for Write-Only-Memory. Make sure you check out wom2.jpg as well. This is the back of the sheet, which includes really useful graphs such as "number of socket insertions VS. number of remaining pins".

Write Only Memory

"All research articles available immediately on publication, free of charge, over the web, with copyright retained by the author"

J. Biol :: journal of biology :: coming soon

"Seventy-nine coupe DeVille vertical Caddy grill
Interstate 65 headin down to Cashville
Glass filled, to the tippy-top, back-seat Benz
Spent my last cent on the rent, left with pocket lints
A damn shame, gotta grind anythang and everythang
Jimmy Crack Corn, cross the county line with Mary Jane"

Country Music and Rap Music will eventually converge into one genre, at which point I might actually listen to country...

Nappy Roots

"Gregory T. Nojeim, Associate Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the ACLU's Washington Office, said the new rules fail to recognize the central problems of the investigations before September 11. "Federal law enforcement failed to analyze and act on relevant information," Nojeim said. "The Attorney General's solution to that failure is to gather exponentially more information." "

ACLU Press Release: 05-30-02 -- ACLU Says Rewriting of Domestic Spying Restrictions Gives FBI New Powers Despite Growing Evidence of Analytical Failures

"Some of these activities will be chilling, there's no question of it," Revell said. "But if the public expects and if the Congress expects there to be prevention of terror activities, there's going to have to be the collection of information, and that collection at times will certainly be problematic to people's concerns."

CNN.com - FBI gets more domestic spy power - May 30, 2002

"Golf as we know it today originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club. "

A History of Golf since 1497 part 1

GrepLaw is Harvard's answer to LawMeme. Some recent headlines:

New York sues Monster Spammer
Cybersquatter King Nailed With Multi-Million Dollar Judgment
Cross Border Disputes in Internet Law
Registrar Market Share Study Expanded to Forbes International 500
RIAA Goes After Audio Galaxy MP3 Service
Stuart Lynn leaves ICANN and More
FBI Forces ISP to Remove Daniel Pearl Video
Which Registrars Do Fortune 500 Companies Use?
Library of Congress Rejects Webcasting Licensing Plan
Eldred v. Ashcroft Update--Opening Brief Filed, Amici Weigh In

GrepLaw: More cyberlaw than you can fit on a floppy.

Zuccarini has been in the center of such cases as Encyclopaedia Britannica's complaint over the misspelled domains Brtanica.com, Bitannica.com, and EncyclopediaBrittanica.com; actress Nicole Kidman's complaint over NicoleKidmanNude.com and the misspelled NicholeKidman.com; Microsoft Corp.'s complaint over EncartaEncyclopedia.com and Encata.com; and United Feature Syndicate's bid for and Dillbert.com. "

Porn 'Mousetrapper' Ordered To Pay Back Over $1.8 Mil