Lessig is back now, but Howard Dean's guest blogging was quite interesting, especially for the 'wired' population.

] So it is time for me to take a break from this space too.
] But I’ve arranged for a much more interesting guest
] blogger while I’m gone: former governor, and presidential
] candidate, Howard Dean.

Howard Dean guestblogging for Lawrence Lessig

] We all know about the Napster issue, the perfume company,
] the lipstick company, the tire makers... Metallica has
] sued them all. Rightly or wrongly, no one is judging
] that. However, the idea behind this parody was to gauge,
] after all that litigation, just how willing America was
] to buy a story as extraordinay -- as outlandish -- as
] them claiming ownership of a 2-chord progression.

A follow-up on the Metallica lawsuit. It was all made up. Now get back to work.

Unfaith On Metallica Hoax, 7/18/03

] Goodbye "e-mail", the French government says, and hello
] "courriel" -- the term that linguistically sensitive
] France is now using to refer to electronic mail in
] official documents.
]
] The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of
] "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents,
] publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an
] incursion of English words into the French lexicon.
]
] The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and
] Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly
] using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail)
] instead of e-mail -- a claim some industry experts
] dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words.
]
] "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word 'courriel'
] is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously
] with the borrowed 'mail' in English," the commission has
] ruled.

I'm told "computer" is a banned word as well. France really IS the butt hole of the western world.

Laughing Boy

France bans 'e-mail' from vocabulary

] "He should turn it in to his professor, get his grade --
] and then they both should burn it," said Richard Clarke,
] who until recently was the White House cyberterrorism
] chief.

And it's your ignorance and inability to face reality that will continue to put our lives in jeopardy, you twit. If this grad student can build such a database, then obviously someone with a lot more motivation could as well. Burying our heads in the sand doesn't help.

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

] A motorist drove home about a mile with the legless body
] of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling
] authorities to report that he had struck the man with his
] car, officials said.
]
] Deputies first learned of the accident, which happened
] about midnight Friday, from bar patrons who called to
] report finding two legs near the parking lot, according
] to sheriff's reports.

I don't think I could actually drive one mile down the road with a torso sitting beside me. No matter what this guy said I would have jumped out of the car screaming that second, most likely.

ABCNEWS.com : Driver Hits Man, Body Stuck in Windshield

] Natalie Brougham was crowded onto a third-floor porch
] with dozens of friends early Sunday when the floor
] dropped out from under them, sending wood and bodies
] crashing through two other decks to the ground. Twelve
] people died, most of them crushed on the porches below.
]
] At least 57 others were injured, authorities said.

Crowded porch collapses in Chicago; 12 dead

] Iraq's ex-information minister appears on Arab TV
]
] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) %u2014 The former Iraqi
] information minister, who gained notoriety during the war
] for wildly implausible claims of victory, showed up on
] Arab television Thursday %u2014 his first appearance
] since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.
]
]
] al-Sahhaf gained notoriety during the war for denying
] that U.S. troops were in Baghdad.
]
] AP
]
]
] In an interview with Al-Arabiya satellite network,
] Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf claimed he had surrendered to
] American forces, was questioned and let go.
]
] "Through some friends, I went to the Americans," he said.
] "I was interrogated about a number of subjects related to
] my job. After that, I was released."
]
] The network aired only a few remarks from the 30-minute
] interview it said it conducted with al-Sahhaf on Thursday
] in a Baghdad suburb. The full interview was to air on
] Friday.

Make this guy White House Press Secretary - he lies much better than Ari Fleischer did.

Iraq's ex-information minister appears on Arab TV

] A 10-month-old girl miraculously survived an 80-foot
] fall, suffering only scrapes and bruises when her father
] threw her out a seventh-floor apartment window late
] Saturday after threatening to kill himself and the baby's
] mother, police said.

Having a fight with the wife it just seems like a natural idea to throw your child out the window. I am just amazed at the stupid acts that people are capable of sometimes.

Peekskill infant survives 7-story fall

] A federal district court dismissed a request by the
] one-time plaintiff known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized
] abortion 30 years ago.
]
] The court said late Thursday that Norma McCorvey's
] request wasn't made within a "reasonable time" after the
] 1973 judgment in Roe vs. Wade.

Federal court declines to reopen 'Roe vs. Wade'

] Monast, 44 - the mom of five kids aged 11 to 24 and
] grandmother of one - was attacked inside her Chester Le
] Boulevard townhouse, allegedly by a machete-wielding
] neighbour, Wednesday afternoon.
]
] "Both hands are on. The right one doesn't look too
] promising but they're hopeful about the left one," Irwin
] said. "I just hope the woman who did this can never get
] near her again."

Proof that Canadians are nuts. I wouldn't be smiling.

Woman smiling after hands - cut off in attack- reattached