"If we do not follow this framework, we risk being sued ... regardless of the merits of such a suit," Google said in a statement.

This is the number 1 problem with civil law. I beleive there should be a criminal penalty for filing a fraudulent cease and desist order.

CNN.com - Service providers as speech police? - April 7, 2002

Trying to stay in control of his mind, the viewer's fingers grip deeply into the armrest, causing damage to the couch.

Sinfest Comic

"The integration of the Internet in crisis communication alters the role of journalism and undermines the power of communication of official sources. What we can state is a loss of information control by journalists and official sources. As Jim Hall draws the consequences from the Kosovo crisis communication: "One of the roles of journalism in this ocean of information is to help readers negotiate the various impasses that arise around bad and contradictory information, even from reputable sources" (Hall, 2000, p. 393). Journalists are no longer only the gatekeepers of information but they must become guides for global information space."

Crisis Communication and the Internet: Risk and Trust in a Global Media

"Annotea is a LEAD (Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project enhancing the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations. By annotations we mean comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document without actually needing to touch the document. When the user gets the document he or she can also load the annotations attached to it from a selected annotation server or several servers and see what his peer group thinks."

Annotea project

"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The risk of birth defects in children born to couples who are first or second cousins isn't as high as many experts had believed, according to a study that sheds new light on a practice that is stigmatized in many Western cultures."

There will be celebrations all across Kentucky and West Virginia tonight. One reveler in Bowling Green was quoted as saying "God Damn! Maybe little Jimmy ain't gunna grow up to be a retard after all! YeeHaa!"

CNN.com - Study: Marrying cousins not so risky - April 4, 2002

"A Japanese electronics company has developed drinking glasses which signal when they are almost empty so that table staff know when to bring a refill. "

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Smart glasses order own refills

"ActualDepth LCD monitors do not use stereoscopic methods to give the illusion of depth but instead utilize two physically separate image planes. This is a technique that has been proven to reduce search times in complex data analysis and eliminate eye-strain associated with 3D displays. "

actualdepth Technology

""We believed strongly that we could win," says Resler, "but I was not prepared to spend $50,000 to do it. So, I settled."
"This is a big problem with our court system in general," says Lohmann. "Many of these people might well have a good defense, but the problem is going to court, and raising the defense can cost thousands of dollars." "

Salon.com Technology | Free speech and the Internet: A fish story

Has there been a shift in the landscape since the Hollings bill was introduced, or since it became a serious possibility? Is the technology community more open to your concerns?
I think they are much more responsive than they were. I think they realize as I do that there are smart people inside each of these industries. But as long as everyone is suspicious of each other, what we have to insert in these discussions is good faith. "

Draconian legislation is the road to "good faith?"

Jack Valenti on CNET

Impressive and very cool application of biotech. Which sometimes appears somewhat creepy to me; however, this kind of application is why we should continue (carefully) to continue this important research.

Stem Cell Research Yeilds Cure for 'Bubble Boy' Disease