Uberfunk showed me Ecto, GeekTool, Colloquy, and the latest eye-candy version of Desktop Manager. [Hack the Planet] —— i don't have much use for most of these, but desktop manager is just what i wanted.

Graduate WebShop: The Impact of the Internet on So …. Graduate WebShop: The Impact of the Internet on Society June 6 11, 2004 University of Maryland College Park Application deadline for best consideration: April 5, 2004 The Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland is hosting the 4th annual graduate student workshop or WebShop. […]

US Govt seeks comprehensive net monitoring rights. ITVibe – among many others – reports that “The US Justice Department has filed a petition this week to the Federal Communications Commission which requests that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) grant easier access to the FBI and other government agencies… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- well, i hope there is a […]

DARPA wants to change TCP/IP. The military agency that funded the creation of TCP/IP, the protocol on which the Internet is based, is no longer happy with it, according to an article by Joab Jackson in Government Computer News: “…Flaws in the basic building blocks… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- i think most of the ideas expressed here […]

Habeas Corpus. The first Republican president suspended the writ of habeas corpus. According to Silvergate and Takei (thanks, Gillmor! ) the current Republican administration seeks to suspend it forever by making it irrelevant and unenforceable. A commenter on Gillmor's blog writes that “This issue and others like it is why I am responding from my […]

I'm getting alot of drupal hits yesterday and today. i do have a drupal site on this server, jeremy.tmttlt.com which will eventually be my homepage when i finish with it. i also have two drupal sites running on work servers. and of course, everyone has been coming here because i helped jason a wee bit […]

Institut Pasteur signs the Berlin Declaration. The Institut Pasteur has signed the Berlin Declaration Open Access to Knowledge. [Open Access News] —- more on the berlin declaration on open access

Ladies, Your Uterus Belongs To The State. This is scary… SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – As Melissa Ann Rowland's unborn twins got closer to birth, doctors repeatedly told her they would likely die if she did not have a Caesarean section. She refused, and one later was stillborn. Authorities charged 28-year-old Rowland with murder on […]

Better Than The Real Thing?. The provisional Iraqi constitution is worth reading in full, both for the SimCity fascination (what would you put in a brand-new constitution?) and as a comparison to whatever you're living under right now. For example, even though certain sections are… [101-280] —— i kind of like the provisional iraqi constitution. […]

Australia censors net censorship data. In AustraliaIT, Kate Mackenzie reports that “The Federal Government has stopped issuing reports on the number of websites it has censored… Despite a Senate motion passed in September 1999 calling on the Communications Minister to issue six-monthly reports on any… [InternetPolicy.net] ——- why is it that governments of late, particularly […]