esp. if you use your atm….

On opportunities for innovation. Clément Laberge: “Les innovateurs ne sont pas rares… ce sont les conditions propices à l'innovation qui le sont. C'est cette rareté qu'il faut combattre.” (“Innovators are not in short supply… the proper conditions for innovation are. It is that scarcity that must be fought.”) [Seb's Open Research] —— but by maintaining […]

Fear less. Jeff finds Julie Hilden's pull-quote of the year at Findlaw: Only speech without fear is truly free. [The Doc Searls Weblog] —— i would say only speech made in fear is free too, if you still make the speech.

IETF to lead anti-spam crusade. The Internet's premier standards-setting body is making its first attempt to develop messaging technology aimed at reducing the amount of spam flooding corporate e-mail servers. Having researched spam for more than a year, the IETF this month formed a working group that will develop a standard mechanism to eliminate spam […]

Citizens Rights Management. Spent a delightful few hours this afternoon in Toronto at the International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance: Cameraphones, Cyborglogs, and Computational… [Blog de Halavais] ——- i think this terminology actually transforms the debate in interesting ways. It is a very useful idea. but it is likely not citizen rights management as much as […]

one of the reasons why i think tv sux is because fox mangled firefly, which was a great sci-fi show. (that was only one of the many reasons) this is a nifty poster with some things people learned in firefly.

Published, recognized and stretching. Remember that “Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development” rant I wrote back … [Catspaw's Guide to the Inevitably Insane] —- nifty.

The Horror, the Horror. The Exorcist in 30 seconds, “re-enacted by bunnies.” [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] —— rabbits are almost as good at acting as chimps.

The Death Clock. Now this is seriously depressing: The Death Clock – When Am I Going To Die?. According to this admittedly crude measure, I have less than a billion seconds to go. Sounds like a lot? Well it’s less than 30 years… Then again, the Clock also thinks that just about every senior citizen […]

New Internet alliance launch at ISPCON-2004. Following up our item from the Center for Digital Democracy, “The [US] Department of Justice has joined the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in asking for a stay of an appeals court decision that could force cable [television] companies to open… [InternetPolicy.net] —– an alliance with consumers… but who represents […]