Check out these two headlines: Bush Seen Declaring Iraq in Violation of UN Order, Laying Ground for War, and White House Indicates Bush Won’t Intervene to Save Lott’s Job. Good job George, you get two big stickers. Polls (note headline spin, then read the numbers) say the American public is …

Despite the leanings of oil-slick Americans (including President Bush), the diplomatic bureaucracy, and their own ongoing PR campaign, Americans are finally starting to doubt the “friendliness” of our “allies” Saudi Arabia. Stephen Schwartz’s book, Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror, points vehemently in that …

Declan McCullagh reports on 70% growth in last year: The Federal Communications Commission’s biannual report said there were approximately 16.2 million broadband customers as of June 2002, up from 9.6 million a year earlier and 12.8 million six months before. Because the FCC generally counts a business or household as …

A reminder about Coolworld’s Planet New Year 2003 massive electronic music New Year’s celebration in San Francisco: On Tuesday December 31, 2002, San Francisco becomes home once again, to the biggest annual NYE dance & music celebration on the West Coast. This event is going to be absolutely MASSIVE with …

The DMCA is the center of a frenzy of activity: Yale’s Lawmeme, in conjunction with Blogcritics is presenting an exemption request from the DVD copy prohibition to the librarian of Congress today – more on that later. There was also a verdict in the ElcomSoft criminal copyright violation trial (also …

The new Lord of the Rings flick, The Two Towers, debuts tonight at midnight. Many hobbit hearts are beating out of their furry little chests. We go to very few movies in the theater anymore – unless they are suitable for a 3 year-old – but Dawn has insisted that …

Clean, sober, "partnered," and getting his eyes fixed.

Richard’s Johnson reports in the NY Post that rap chronicler Davy D has factored O’Reilly and declared him “hip-hop’s dopest MC for 2002.” Though I personally doubt O’Reilly has an ounce of rhythm in him, his scorched earth broadsides have earned respect from at least one corner of the hip-hop …

This little video presentation, “Technical Difficulties,” is clever in its own way and some of its points are perfectly legitimate. But – damn – again I am forced to confront the utterly bewildering notion that somehow the War on Terror (wherever it may lead, including Iraq) is a case of …

The freedom of information theme is very much in the air today: a Stanford group is using the copyright system to INCREASE the amount of material available in the public domain, according to the LA Times: Based at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, Creative Commons has a …