Through The Looking GlassMy daily musings on Politics, Technology and Life...Not even going to go into the ways this is wrong...- June 27, 2003 'Nice Bombs Ya Got There'. The government is testing an airport scanner that reveals, well, pretty much everything. The image that screeners see is basically you, naked, under your clothes. Along with whatever weapons of mass destruction you happen to be concealing. Wired Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/27.html#a436 A really long cat...- June 27, 2003 Albert Einstein. "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." Quotes of the Dayhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/27.html#a435 Ahhhh, a good move from the FTC....- June 27, 2003 Well, according the the NYTIMES, the National Do-Not-Call List Begins. You can register for the list HERE. Here is a direct link to the registration page. It opened at midnight, and 635,000 people had registered by 2:30pm. The site is a little slow, I don't think they expected so much traffic. As long as you register by August 31st, your number will be on the list when it takes effect October 1st. I wonder if I'm the only one expecting to get a huge...http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/27.html#a434 My first thought upon reading this...- June 27, 2003 ...is shouldn'y this guy be running the country Then I realized we were probelly better off with him ignoring the country. Bush Raising $27 Million, Outpacing All Democrats. President Bush's re-election campaign expects to have raised $27 million to $30 million by the end of the month, most of it from a two-week burst of appearances. By Richard W. Stevenson. New York Times: Politicshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/27.html#a433 Anyone need some software- June 26, 2003 So I'm selling A new version of MS Office standard to support my Europe trip. If anyone needs a legal copy, check it out. :-)http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/26.html#a430 The future of power...- June 25, 2003 So the utilities want to Redrawing the Electric Power Grid New York Times: Technology. by building more high capicity power lines. Basically, the power is available, but it can't get to the people who need it. One solution would be to generate more power locally, but that doesn't have the support of the utilities. Here's my view of the future. The majority of power needed by a home will be generated by a home, by solar, fuel cell, any which way. Any excess energy...http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/25.html#a429 Way to go Lessig!!!- June 25, 2003 This is great news for the public domain. As long as these Congresspeople stay the course, we could be in for some good news. very good news. I have just arrived in DC, where I was planning on meeting with staffers on the Hill tomorrow to drum up support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. We've got CD's of all 15k+ of the signatures on our Reclaim the Public Domain petition to hand out. It was going to be a fun day (as fun as any DC day gets) in DC. But we've now learned that...http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/25.html#a428 Any chance of me voting for him....- June 25, 2003 just evaporated... Dick Gephardt needs to go to summer school to study basic civics. Instapundit reports on Dick Gephardt's absurd statement about overturning Supreme Court decisions: "When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day " I agree with Instapundit's assessment that Gephardt may be too stupid to be president, or too cavalier. When are these guys going to figure out that it isn't just the lazy old.http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/24.html#a427 Will someone who can tell the truth please stand up...- June 25, 2003 Story Minute. Will the real revisionists please stand up. Salon.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/24.html#a426 The savant within all of us...- June 24, 2003 ''We remember virtually everything, but we recall very little'' Is there an inner Savant within all of us Allan Snyder thinks so, and with the help of his machine, he can show u, first hand how to release that inner savant.http://blogs.salon.com/0001054/2003/06/24.html#a425 |