] "I have really never considered myself a TV star. I
] always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a
] visit."

RIP Fred Rogers

] If the court orders the sites to be redirected, Ashcroft
] said, they will point to a DEA.gov Web page that says:
] "By application of the United States Drug Enforcement
] Administration, the Web site you are attempting to visit
] has been restrained by the United States District Court
] for the Western District of Pennsylvania pursuant to
] Title 21, United States Code, Section 853 (e)(1)(a)."

I gotta be careful what I joke about.. After I posted that last meme, I saw this linked on Slashdot.

cannabisnews.com: Feds Weed Out Drug Paraphernalia Sites

] The United States assumed control of the domain name and
] website this week. Individuals who now visit www.iSONEWS.com
] will no longer find the latest news on new pirated releases
] by illegal software piracy (or "warez") groups. Instead, they
] will view information about the case of United States v. Rocci,
] as well as general information about copyright infringement and
] the criminal prosecution of individuals engaged in online
] piracy. In addition to this information, the site now contains
] links to the website of the Department of Justice's Computer
] Crime and Intellectual Property Section, www.cybercrime.gov,
] which contains further information on the Department's
] criminal anti-piracy efforts.

Coming next week.. High Times shut down.. Subscribers will be mailed pamplets about the War on Drugs.

#118: 02-26-03 JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEIZES TOP INTERNET SITE INVOLVED IN COPYRIGHT PIRACY

] As any independent provider of Internet service can
] attest, the Bells have spent the last seven years
] fighting implementation of this federal law and are
] making it as difficult as possible for competitors to
] access the networks. Their needlessly high wholesale
] access prices have driven most DSL competitors out of
] business or into bankruptcy and locked America's ISPs
] into a low-speed ghetto.
]
] Not surprisingly, prices jumped immediately after the
] lockout was achieved.
]
] The Internet as Americans know it today is built on
] competition, choice and low-cost access--attributes not
] usually associated with the Bell monopolies. In fact, it
] appears that the DSL debacle may have only been the first
] course and that the Bells are now moving in for the kill,
] with the Internet itself as the ultimate entree. We all
] deserve better.

Will the Bells crush Net calling?

] When the Centers for Disease Control announced last
] November that the American South has more people living
] with HIV and AIDS than New York or San Francisco, it came
] as a shock to people who've always associated AIDS with
] urban centers.
]
] According to the CDC, the 17-state Southern region, from
] Texas to Washington, D.C., not only has more residents
] with HIV and AIDS, it also has the ugly distinction of
] being the only area in the country with a significant
] increase in infections (9 percent). And worse, the CDC
] says the South accounts for 40 percent of people
] estimated to be living with AIDS and 46 percent of the
] estimated number of new cases.

Salon.com Sex | Killing with kindness

] Welcome to the World's LARGEST Consumer
] Advocacy Site for Gas Prices!

Welcome to Gaspricewatch.com - Find the lowest gas prices in your neighborhood.

] For instance, a colony of ants can collectively find out
] where the nearest and richest food source is located,
] without any individual ant knowing it. In experiments, a
] food source is separated from the nest by a bridge with
] two branches, one of which is longer. The shorter branch
] is most likely to be selected by the colony. This is
] because the ants lay and follow chemical trails:
] individual ants lay a chemical substance, a pheromone,
] which attracts other ants. The first ants returning to
] the nest from the food source are those that take the
] shorter path twice (from the nest to the source and
] back). Nest mates are recruited toward the shorter
] branch, which is the first to be marked with pheromone.

Its common for different people to come to the same rough conclusions at the same time. This is largely due to shared circumstance and information sources. What is truly amazing to me, is at this point in time, we can see each other coming to these conclusions better then ever before, and feed off each other's ideas as we go along in a very effective mannor. This, if in no other way, is how Information Technology is really changing things.

OpenP2P.com: Swarm Intelligence: An Interview with Eric Bonabeau [Feb. 21, 2003]

] A strong majority of companies surveyed for a recent IDC
] study expect to maintain or increase their IT spending in
] 2003, but those plans are tightly tied to worldwide
] economic stability, according to the research firm.
]
] The survey covered around 1,000 chief information
] officers (CIOs) and chief executive officers (CEOs) in 12
] countries throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
] Of those polled, 85 percent say they expect their IT
] budgets to either remain flat or grow in 2003 over last
] year.

Good news? [rubs eyes, looks again] I don't see the phrase "cut spending" or "additional layoffs" in there..

ITworld.com - IDC: Worst may be over for IT cutbacks

] Witness to centuries of bloodshed, the ancient walls of
] Jerusalem's Old City saw only white Tuesday as
] Palestinians and Israelis traded snowballs instead of
] stones and bullets.

Yahoo! News - Snowballs Replace Bullets as Snow Hits Holy Land

Thus, to supply the virtual gramophone at least one complete revolution of the record, four regions had to be separately scanned. These were later stitched together to form an image of several complete inner tracks of the record.

Gotta check out a few of the mp3's.. Very weird/cool sounding. I'd love to try this with different types of music. Might be able to fit some punk 7" records on the scanner easily.. :)

Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone