a cool new blog of New York photography: overshadowed

If you are at all interested in security topics, especially where national security and electronic security issues intersect, than I highly recommend the once-monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter written by Bruce Schneier, the CTO of Counter Pane Internet Security.

It is a good thing when animated bunnies do thirty second condensed versions of movies: www.angryalien.com

Senator Hatch and the recording companies have gone further off the deep end with this latest anti-copyright bill. The name is an acronym so ridiculous I'm not even going to spell it out here. From the article:

New York City Transit wants to ban the taking of pictures in the subways and on subway platforms. Chalk one up in the overzealous security measure column.

California builds a large amount of transit, but transit projects do not exist in a vacuum. Land use decisions must be made to maximize use of the transit investment. Cheers to the governor for reducing the hurdles that localities must jump in implementing smart land use decisions around transit stations: Gov. Schwarzenegger signs bill to spur more transit villages (Registration required)

Though Reason Public Policy Institute (Free Market, Libertarian) has an interesting article by Declan McCullagh (writer for news.com, regular contributor to wired.com) titled: Database Nation: The upside of "zero privacy".

The recording industry has Congress so bent over the table that it has managed to fast track a bill (The Pirate Act) that would get the government to do its dirty work of suing filesharers for it. Instead of prosecuting terrorists, Mr.

Ah, bucolic florida. Year round warmth might make it be perfect place to dry your clothes on a clothesline outside of your house, unless a local developer and various town ordinances don't want you to.

The Magnifier is a pretty cool visual effect out of Javascript and CSS (read about it).