] Rep. Lynn Woolsey wants peace to have a better chance.
]
] In ambitious legislation re-introduced in Congress this
] week, the Petaluma Democrat and 46 congressional
] co-authors have proposed the creation of a Department of
] Peace, a kind of counterbalance to the Department of
] Defense.
]
] The primary author of the bill to create the
] Cabinet-level department is Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio,
] who is also an announced candidate for president.
]
] With American tanks and airplanes pounding Iraq, the
] chances of a U.S. Department of Peace may seem more
] remote than ever. But Woolsey isn't worried about being
] drowned out by the din of war.

Woolsey backs Department of Peace bill

] This is an apartment for the ULTIMATE Star Trek Fan.
] Originally a Studio Apartment but after just over 3 years
] it has been transformed into the interior of the starship
] Enterprise. Designed and built by Interior Designer Tony
] Alleyne the Star Trek Apartment has made world news and
] been featured on TV shows, magazines, radio shows, and
] newspapers all around the world. There are also many
] sites featuring the Star Trek Apartment on the internet.
] There will be more television coverage of the Star Trek
] Apartment and the man who designed it on British TV this
] summer 2003. The show is 'Other People's Houses' on
] Channel 4. For someone looking for traditional living and
] design this is NOT for you. But for someone looking to
] own something just a little bit different.....WELL! There
] are more interior shots at this site:
] http://community.webshots.com/user/aja24

Your very own Star Trek Apartment? Only 2 Million dollars!!!

] A group of open-source advocates and critics will meet
] behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon, in the first of
] at least two meetings in search of a compromise on what
] could be the first bill in the United States to encourage
] the use of open-source software by a state government.
]
] The bill, introduced by Oregon Rep. Phil Barnhart,
] D-Eugene, last month, would require the state to consider
] using open-source software when buying new programs.
] Although the bill does not specifically mandate
] open-source software over proprietary software, the bill
] does say it cannot be excluded from the selection
] process. The bill, HB 2892, also says open-source options
] can "significantly reduce the state's costs of obtaining
] and maintaining software."

ZDNet: Open-source battle rages in Oregon

This is really well done: "Before and after images of various San Francisco locations used in Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece."

Vertigo...Then and Now

] The recording industry is suing students at Michigan
] Technological and two other universities, saying they ran
] Napster-like file sharing systems on the schools'
] high-speed Internet networks.
]
] The lawsuit says Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt and
] three others ran systems offering more than 1 million
] copies of songs for illegal downloading.

Michigan Tech student sued by music industry over file sharing

] "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We
] believe that we can provide consumers with a better
] product and a better user experience. That's something
] that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse,
] director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet
] services division, said.
]
] Visse said the company was making some significant
] investments in developing a better search engine. But the
] company has not offered specific plans.

Microsoft says to take aim at Google

A seven-month effort to establish its own branded Linux distribution is being ended by Sun Microsystems Inc. because of customer opposition to yet another Linux version in the marketplace.

Sun dumps its own branded Linux

] The point is far more fundamental: Bowling for Columbine
] is dishonest. It is fraudulent. It fixes upon a theme,
] and advances it, whenever necessary, by deception. It
] even uses the audio/video editor to assemble a Heston
] speech that Heston did not give, and to turn sympathetic
] phrases into arrogant ones. You can't even trust the
] narrator to read you a plaque or show you a speech, for
] Pete's sake.
]
] The bottom line: can a film be called a documentary when
] the viewer cannot trust an iota of it, not only the
] narration, but the video? I suppose film critics could
] debate that one for a long time, and some might prefer
] entertainment and effect to fact and truth. But the
] Academy Award rules here are specific. Rule 11 lays out
] "Special Rules for the Documentary Award." And it begins
] with the definition: "A documentary film is defined as a
] non-fiction motion picture . . . ." It goes on to say
] that a documentary doesn't always have to show the
] "actual occurrence": it can employ re-enactment, etc.,
] "as long as the emphasis is on factual content and not on
] fiction."

Stupid Academy Award - Bowling for Columbine

] Is Sodomy Patriotic?
]
] Where naughty gay sex in Texas meets the rigid U.S.
] Supreme Court. Hide the children

Is Sodomy Patriotic? / Where naughty gay sex in Texas meets the rigid U.S. Supreme Court. Hide the children

Yet another anti-Bush rally that I wish I could have attended.

The protesters would disrobe, form the Chinese symbol for peace, and a photographer would climb up into a cherry picker and take their picture from above. I wasn't really sure how nudity was going to help the peace movement, but I'd never gotten naked in front of more than two people at a time, and the idea of doing it for something I believed in seemed like a great idea.

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