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".

Posted by Chris at 02:56 PM in Politics | Comments (0)

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. Ashcroft and company would now get to wiretap and file civil suits against teenagers downloading music. And the RIAA would still get to sue them again after that...

Posted by Chris at 01:04 PM in Computing | Comments (0)

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.

Posted by Chris at 09:50 AM in Planning | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Chris at 09:19 PM in Computing | Comments (0)

Information Week has an article about the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, a bill sponsored by Rick Boucher (D-Va) that seems to attempt to shift the balance in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act back towards the consumer and user. Of course Hollywood and the recording industries are crying foul, they claim this just gives hackers license to break through their copyright protection schemes. It seems that their opinion is in the digital age since we can't strike a balance on fair use, we should just throw the concept out the window. That way they can effectively have permanent copyrights without having to push for legislation that explicitly says so (unlike the Copyright Term Extension Act, which just does so in practice).

Posted by Chris at 08:50 PM in Computing | Comments (0)

I am doing some research for a paper on Medicare and health care, and I found and interesting log by a doctor who apparently works in an emergency room. I love the title "Kill as few patients as possible". He says he is Catholic. I like the design also.

The best thing though is this table saw that can detect what it is cutting through, supposedly so it does not cut through your finger - video.

Posted by Chris at 09:13 PM in Random | Comments (0)