Congressional leaders of both parties have signed off on a proposal, being considered in Washington this week, to start Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday of November. They say it would save energy.

dUh! Why not just extend it the whole year round?

Congress to add 2 months to Daylight Savings Time

The in-house magazine of the digital underground, Phrack is closing after 20 years as its editorial team steps down.

an end to an era that's already ended?

Key hacker magazine faces closure

As sounds, recording methods and technologies were blended and reshaped, the entire history of recorded sound was up for grabs, and listeners were (potentially) as aware of Louis Jordan as this week’s hottest mash-up. The result has been a new sort of temporal distortion, one completely bereft of historical and social context — suddenly any music ever recorded is “now.”

All the more reason to not fear a streaming network of every piece of music ever recorded.

Pocket Revolution

This op-ed by McSweeny's editor Dave Eggers is something of a follow-up to Tom Friedman's recent Behind Every Grad ... column.

One day they're shaping minds, a moral force in the lives of the young people they teach and know, and in some ways the architects of the future of the nation. The next day they're serving cocktails and selling plasma TV's at the mall.

The authors have written a "punchy, thoughtful" new book, "Teachers Have It Easy": The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers, which received a Starred Review by Publishers Weekly.

Reading, Writing, Retailing

] Aron also noted that the research answered the "historic
] question of whether love and sex are the same, or
] different, or whether romantic passion is just warmed
] over sexual arousal." He said, "Our findings show that
] the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo
] of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain
] regions associated with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic
] love involve quite different brain systems."

In other news: The sky is blue.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

] Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond Ring
] from Anyone, Under Any Circumstances, Even If They Really
] Want to Give You One

Ten reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring

] Across the US some 185,000 households have switched from
] the local power company to their own homegrown, renewable
] energy.

I'm planning on doing this as part of my house renovation project. In doing my research over the last 3 years, I've noticed that there's a boom in information and products available for everything from solar to fuel cell to natural gas. It's definitely gotten easier.

The New Power Generation

] hicago's two-fisted street cops have a new kind of
] backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a
] citywide crime-fighting database. (Smile for the camera.)

Relevant to Decius' postings on increased cameras in Nashville and the national ID plan.

It's the same argument that is being used to bolster intelligence for the War on Terror(tm). Peace and security is worth paying for and bending your civil rights to accomodate. An argument that's hard to counter.

Spycam Force

] Podscope is the first search engine that actually allows
] you to search for spoken words within any audio or video
] file. We're starting with podcasts and will be
] adding all types of multimedia in coming months.

Podscope

] I'm worried about my country. I love America. I think
] it's the best country in the world. But I also think
] we're not tending to our sauce. I believe that we are in
] what Shirley Ann Jackson [president of Rensselaer
] Polytechnic Institute] calls a "quiet crisis." If we
] don't change course now and buckle down in a flat world,
] the kind of competition our kids will face will be
] intense and the social implications of not repairing
] things will be enormous.

This is almost a verbatim quote I've said many times and it's true. Education. Health care. Training and support. These are all critical foundation systems that have eroded beyond repair in the US and are now threatening to undermine our entire presence globally. There's nothing worse than being a lazy top dog with a bunch of under dogs vieing for your spot.

Why the World Is Flat