From BlackBox Voting:

The California Secretary of State has invited Black Box Voting to hack away at some Diebold voting systems. The testing is set for Nov. 30, 2005.

Diebold Election Systems has been trying to re-certify its "TSx" touch- screen machines in California. Diebold has added stronger passwords and encryption, but even the consultant hired by California to evaluate the system reported that the voting system remains vulnerable to alteration of vote results. (More on consultant report and vulnerabilities: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/14296.html)

This week, officials at the California Secretary of State's office invited Black Box Voting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog group for elections, to try hacking into the Diebold system. A specific testing protocol was provided by Diebold and the California Secretary of State's office.

One of the big drawbacks of the Mac for me is that I miss some utilities I'd written, chiefly my blog editor. It has a whole bunch of features (some day I'll publish the documentation for it), but only a couple that I really miss: Automatic linking to sites I've linked to before and auto-html-ing of tags.

The small favor is to ask if anyone knows of Mac software that has those features.

But even if you do, I still want to be able to write small, amateur programs on the Mac. I've poked at XCode but have made no headway with it and have ordered an Objective-C book. What would really really help me, though, is being able to talk with someone who can get me up through a "hello world" program and to something that lets me do some basic text editing. We'd have to start at the IDE basics. Once I can create a form that I can type into, I can probably make headway on my own.

So, anyone have the time and patience to hold my hand through this? It might take an initial phone call and then some IM'ing or emailing of dumb questions. Send me email (self A_T evident.com) if you're up for it. Thanks!

David Clark, one of the inventors of the Internet (he says he's not a "father" of the Internet but is maybe a first cousin), is giving a lunchtime talk at the Berkman center.

He says that the decisions that will shape the Net are not made by the techies but by the world where business and economic interests reign. Already many of his colleagues are stepping away from the Internet "so they can have some space to innovate." E.g., a friend is putting sensors in the forest instead of in cities so she won't have to face privacy issues. [Yeah, but once squirrels get lawyers, she'll be sorry. Plus it'll all have been recorded by the sensors. Slam dunk.]

The research community should stand up and announce objectives for the Internet. A solicitation is about to come out from the National Science Foundation for "Future Internet Design." It's a challenge for the research community to come together about what the Net in 10-15 years should be, and then propose the research required to get there.

We need to do this in order "to come up with an architecture that has a coherent framework for discussing security."

Isenberg suggests that this is an end-to-end issue, not something we want to build into the Internet.

DC: "Does anyone other than a geek" believe that security is a matter only for the application layer? Congress doesn't believe that, DC says. We're being "simplistic and unresponsive" if we keep saying that security is someone else's problem. If we don't do anything, Congress will pass a law, probably putting burdens on the ISPs. The ISPs will be given the job of policing your machine. No encrypting will be allowed, for example.

DC's main point is that we need to be thinking about the architecture of the Internet, not thinking about incremental mods and bandaids. The forces that bring real change will not be technical. They will be the social concerns, policies, economics, business, competition...All these forces need to be at the table.

Zittrain: If the line between the PC and the network is so thin, is the NSF challenge really to think about the architecture of the PC as well of the Internet? And given the constellation of players in the PC field, is that practical?

DC: To be practical, I take some things as invariant: E.g., we will never have bug-free machines/sw.

Me: But doesn't putting businesses at the table mean that, for example, Microsoft will insist that - as the majority supplier - the Net ought to work in ways that work with its software? And that may not be in the best interests of the Net.

Zittrain: And this runs against the old way that says that if the Net is open to any app, we can work these things out [rough paraphrase]

Charlie Nesson: I'm surprised, DC, to hear you say this because you were the person who rejected kings in favor of "rough consensus."

DC: I got an empassioned email saying that what I'm proposing is incredibly stupid because any degree of centralization will play into the hands of the Evil Empire. But I think it's worth asking what we want the Net to look like in 10-15 years.

Rebecca MacKinnon: Isn't this too US-centric?

DC: NSF knows it's US centric, so they're trying to get some funding from other countries. But most of the research does come from "first world" countries. And you personally shouldn't perceive this as an outsider talking to someone else who's going to make a decision; you should be at the table. (But first, he says, you have to learn to talk tech talk, e.g., know what a port is.)

DC: We should fight to preserve the rights of individuals on the Net. Right now, it's tipping against that. E.g., CALEA. We will not be designing the future but rather designing the playing field.

When the Morris worm came out, DC got a call from a DARPA colonel who asked "What should I tell my superior officer?" DC said: That the Internet fulfilled its design spec by delivering the virus to all machines at maximum speed.

Isenberg: The real value of the Internet is its "option value": The ability to innovate. The people at the table, though, don't care about option value. They care about how to catch the bad guys, how to make money selling stuff, etc. I'm afraid that the red machine [the virtual machine that is able to roam the Net freely, as opposed to the green one that runs authenticated, safe apps - a proposal gaining currency] will end up being used only by the hackers, so the cool new options aren't available...

DC: I've talked with consumers and they don't have any idea what option value is about. They say they're terrified some computer zombie will delete my photos. They don't care about the open future when compared with the current value. That will lead to a tremendous force to constrain the Net. We need a social analysis of this system, not a technical one.

Amanda Michel: Your timeline is 15 yrs but there's pending legislation. How do these timelines meet?

DC: I don't know.

Simpson Garfinkel: We haven't been able to get IPv6. How are we going to get the sort of change you're looking for?

DC: All of IPv6's features except for the 64bit address space have been retrofitted into IP4. So, IPv6 has been a success. For security, that's harder because you probably can't get there piecemeal.

Me: Why do we want people at the table whosse values are not the values of the open Internet? [condensed]

There's a way of thinking that says we only make progress by bringing together opposites, and that doesn't allow coherent thinking about design.

Me: To me, it's like you're asking a comittee to come up with a compromise on what I think is a basic right. So, when you say we should bring to "the table", what table is it? Is it merely a metaphor?

NSF is soliciting research from academics. Others should be involved.

Isenberg: I'm afraid that the big "stakeholders" will come but the disadvantaged won't.

Simpson: So you [not DC] are proposing not using democratic processes, because if you voted by nations, the future design would not be open.

DC: This group of researchers that might be convened by the NSF has absolutely no power. The interesting question is why would anyone pick this idea up? The research community might be able to push with a better of idea who they're doing this for.

This morning, I was expecting a Skype call. Ten minutes before, I started up my PC (we had an outage overnight). All was fine except Skype didn't recognize the skype name of the person who was going to call me. Odd. So, I downloaded and installed Skype on the Mac, and it worked immediately.

On the one hand, this was probably a firewall (ZoneAlarm Pro) issue on my PC. On the other hand, I don't seem to have firewall problems on my Mac. I don't even know if I have a firewall on my Mac, which is how it should be. [Tags: mac macintosh skype]

Letitz, PA, is trying to figure out what to make of the blogs kept by an 18 year old who murdered the parents of a 14-year-old who also blogged. Should people have known? Did the Internet somehow contribute?

From a press release:

BroadbandSports.com, the world's first-ever, video-only sports portal, was launched today by the founder of Webby Award winning sports site, MountainZone.com and former ESPN.com and Amazon.com staff.

The destination sports website allows viewers to watch professional and user-generated sports videos and empowers them with ways to "tag", search, find, store and replay their favorite video any time, anywhere.

Christina Aguilera required the 150 guests at her wedding to sign a three-page confidentiality agreement before they were allowed into the event. "Banned subjects included the cake, the rings, entertainment, speeches, food, the venue and other guests."

I wonder if her pre-nup has a non-compete?

The basics are working, or at least are on the way to working. I'm going through the many suggestions you've had for software. Heck, I've even installed a kickass screensaver, LotsaWater that makes it look like your desktop is under an inch of clear water during a rainstorm. Very cool. (Why aren't there screensavers like this on the PC? Maybe there are and I just haven't noticed.)

I plugged the Mac into an ethernet cable instead of using wifi, and now it's able to find and copy the documents on my PC desktop. Huzzah!

I'm not sure what the problem is, but since I'm at the moment blundering around in the dark, I don't expect to know what it was.

BTW, Windows doesn't see the Mac, although the Mac sees Windows. I found a web site that gave some basic instructions. No joy yet, but still trying.

Later: It works. I have no idea why it didn't work an hour ago and now it does. But Windows, meet Mac. Mac, meet Windows. Woohoo!

I've started downloading and playing. I tried Camino but it doesn't support XUL, so there aren't many extensions for it. So I'm installing Firefox. (I'm a big fan of mouse gestures.)

Scott solved my registration problem. Thank you, Scott. Gotta appreciate a machine with a community built into it.

It's doing some heavy updating now. I can see the desktop underneath it. Oooh!

The battery icon tells me that the machine arrived 100% charged. Nice. I'm going to take advice from MR (proferred through email, hence the slight cloaking) of letting it discharge entirely overnight, and then charge it up again.

Playing around with the local network: It finds my Windows desktop machine ("Honker"). Nice. But it tells me that the alias "Honker" could not be opened because the original item cannot be found. I can delete or fix the alias. Going for the fix...Hmm, now it wants to know the item that I want "Honker" to open, I was expecting (hoping) to see items on my PC desktop, but instead I seem to be seeing default Mac folders (desktop, documents, library, etc.).

Try again. More luck. It finds the public folders on Honker. Yay! Not letting me connect to them yet. I may actually have to read the manual. The scandal!

By the way, Joi Ito has, accurately, told me that I shouldn't write about using Macs because it makes me stupid. He's totally right. My expectations are high about Macs being dead simple, and thus I am easily disappointed.

Random questions: I'm going to the UK in a week. I assume people make power adapter cords for UK plugs. What's a good place to get one cheap and fast?

Also, I have a DC adapter for airplanes for my Thinkpad. What's the cheapest/fastest equivalent for the Mac?

First, thanks for all the incredibly helpful advice. That's generous of you.

So, first impressions:

It arrived in one day, via Harvard's purchase plan. Cool.

Beautifully designed box. Nicely packed. The white accessories are very Empire Strikes Back-ish.

Turn it on. It begins its cheery set-up program. The keyboard has a pleasant soft-click feel. It finds my wifi without any fuss.

Problem: I go through the default setup process and am faced with a screen that wants to know what I will primarily use this computer for and how I describe myself. I don't want to give Apple that info so I leave the blanks blank. But the Continue button won't let me continue.

I am not willing to give Apple that info and there is no obvious way to skip the registration process. If you know how I can power up the machine for the first time without having to give Apple personal information, beyond the contact info, please let me know.

Brian Millar, knowing my continuing interest in unfortunate urls, points to:

www.penisland.com

www.therapistfinder.com

The canonical example remains www.lumberjacksexchange.com, which, unfortunately, is no longer up.

At buzz.kayak.com, you can see the most popular locations other people from your area are searching for on Kayak, the travel deal aggregator. Now there's a hack that will let you see the most popular searches to locations with a particular activity. For example,

http://buzz.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights?code=BOS&rc;=∾=ski

shows where Boston Kayak users (well, actually people looking for flights from Boston) are looking for skiing.

http://buzz.kayak.com/h/buzz/flights?code=BOS&rc;=∾=nude

David Berlind is using his blog in a way few professional journalists do. He has been reporting on Massachusetts' decision to use only Open Document Format-compliant software (= not Microsoft Office), with a mixture of comprehensive detail, dogged reporting, and, yes, advocacy. There's no question where David stands on this. We hear a lot about whether bloggers can become journalists, but here we have a journalist who is as involved, passionate and transparent as any blogger.

In the latest round of his reporting — mixing his personal involvement in the issue — the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science, which favors Word because of its accessibility features, is now willing to consider ODF. The ball is, as David says, in the ODF's court.

My PowerBook is presumably on its way. My expectation is that the robustness of its hardware will be on a par with my Thinkpad X40 (well, not this particular X40 since it seems to be a lemon) but that its software will be far more robust and require less maintenance. I've used Macs on and off for many years, and am the reluctant sys admin for my father-in-laws Mac OS X desktop, so I expect the learning curve to be steep and that I will find it somewhat less elegant and wonderful than y'all think I should.

I'm looking for suggestions for what I need to equip my machine with. I am not looking to spend a lot of money. Also, keep in mind that my big Windows desktop machine is my primary work computer. I'll be using the Mac for when I travel.

Jeez, this list is getting expensive. I just remembered another reason I've resisted geting a Mac.

Cameron Reilly has just posted a 70 minute (!) podcast interview we recorded last night. It was fun and wide-ranging. Best of all, every twenty minutes, we mention Doc.

(You will hear me sputter when Cameron comments about "getting chicks." I've lost my sense of humor on this topic.)

The IRS has started an investigation into whether the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena should retain its tax exempt status because a few days before the 2004 election campaign the rector emeritus, George Regas, gave a sermon arguing against the Iraq war on moral grounds. The letter from the IRS complains that Regas "delivered a searing indictment of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, criticism of the drive to develop more nuclear weapons, and described tax cuts as inimical [opposed] to the values of Jesus." The church has a long history of supporting progressive activism.

Here's the sermon: "If Jesus debated Senator Kerry and President Bush." Regas begins by explicitly acknowledging that people of faith support each candidate, and he's not going to tell anyone how to vote. Then he looks at how he thinks Bush and Kerry stack up on three issues, war, poverty and hope. The section on war is explicitly a condemnation of Bush's policies. The section on poverty is neutral until he gets to the question of abortion rights where he explicitly contrasts his views with conservatives'. The hope section is generically uplifting. He ends by urging congregants to take "Jesus, the peacemaker" into the booth with them. (Here's a copy (pdf) of the sermon at the church on November 13, 2005, about the IRS action.)

This sermon was an argument against Bush's policies. (There's almost nothing about Kerry in it.) But so what? The line between religion and state does not and should not keep religious leaders from talking about political issues. From abolition to civil rights to Vietnam, we have a long and admirable tradition of churches being engaged in social and political issues. There was nothing coercive in Regas' speech. He didn't tinstruct congregants to vote for Kerry or threaten to excommunicate or shun those who vote for Bush; in fact, Regas acknowledges that faithful, good people may well decide to vote either way. He wasn't covertly collecting money and using the church to organize voters. He was applying his understanding of his religion's values to the issues of the day. Isn't that what we want?

And, yes, I would say the same things about a different sermon that argued that Bush's policies are exactly What Jesus Would Do.

BTW, the Interfaith Allilance thinks that the IRS action might have been intended to soften opposition to House Bill 235, legislation supported by the religious right that would permit sermons endorsing candidates.

Doc's posted a great (and longish) piece on saving our Internet. He cogently lays out the threats from the carriers.

His solution is important and right but, I'm afraid, not enough. Changing how we speak — reframing the issues — takes longer than we have. Plus, this particular framing is entangled with deep and deeply-motivated cognitive-economic systems being driven by the most powerful frame-makers in our culture: The media and government. So, yes, reframe! Never ever ever utter the phrase "intellectual property" again, for example. But I fear that we need much more than that much faster.

My positive proposal? Join me in my trough of despair.

Although yesterday, after giving two interviews in which I was relentlessly hopeless — heartbroken is actually the more accurate term — about the Net's future, two people said things that gave me a little hope.

Chris Nolan believes that wifi will become enough of a consumer (sorry, Doc!) issue that Congress won't be able to enact a new telco act that outlaws wifi sharing.

Then I talked with Charlie Nesson of the Berkman who made a case for universities becoming such a bastion of the open Internet and the intertwingling of knowledge that they make it impossible to close our Internet. The could be champions of our Net.

John Palfrey of the Berkman is in Tunisia for the WSIS meeting and writes about the need for the Open Net Initiative. Ethan also writes about the general infophobia of the conference itself. The Berkman Center has in fact just posted the latest in its reports on what sites particular countries are blocking. This report's subject: Tunisia.

My Thinkpad is scheduled to go back to the shop on Thursday. A 5-hour chkdsk session seems to have cleared up some of the disk issues. The remaining problems are:

1. USB ports don't work. They don't even work on boot up, so it is not a Windows driver issue.

2. The IBM rescue partition doesn't load.

3. Performance is worse than sluggish because a process called System (not System Idle) takes up 99% of my CPU. (The System process apparently is a catchall for kernel threads.)

Sigh.

PS: Unless you will personally warrantee the Mac you want me to buy — including you paying roundtrip Fedex if it needs repairs — do not leave a comment that I should be an aforementioned Mac. Thank you. [Tags: thinkpad]

Scott Kirsner argues that Apple is favoring Goliath over David (to use his trope), in an op-ed in the SF Chronicle today.

Chris Nolan moderates a panel with Zephyr Teachout and Andrew Rasiej.

Andrew says most politicians are technologic idiots. He says that in 2001 Sen. Diane Feinstein said that she didn't think the Senate should not be on the Internet until the pornography and pedophilia is gone. Sen. Chuck Schumer then asked Andrew: I get 10,000 emails a day. How can I make them stop.

Zephyr talks about a college course she's teaching on politics and the Internet. She says she has her students studying Estonia, which is highly wired and has integrated governance and the Net.

Z: Even if FEMA had messed up in every way they did, if they had made their data transparent...

Andrew: I went to DC and suggested the creation of the equivalent of a National Guard of techies. Deploy wifi transmitters, etc. It passed 97 to 0 as part of the Homeland Security Office. But no one has done anything about it.

Andrew: During the campaign, I met Michael Bloomberg. He said to me, "Oh, you're the wifi guy!" [Andrew ran for NYC ombudsman in part on a muniwifi platform." Bloomberg then asked, "Would we have to dig up the streets?" People in that operating system believe that networks consist of people who have touched one another's skin. [HE demos a politicians arm grip.] People in the power structure have no threat of risk from these new networks. It'll take a change in generation.

Q: Much as we may scoff at Bloomberg, et al., we should put ourselves in their mindset. [Discussion ensues.]

Z: In the UK, they have started having limited term engagements with politicians. E.g., a month of chat with an MP. A good way to introduce them.

Chris: The Telcom Act of 1996 is being rewritten. She hopes that wifi will become a consumer issue because then the politicians won't be able to cut off access. [I wish I agreed.]

Q: Does this start with the cities? With the technorati?

Chris: Yes.

Z: Other campaigns don't want to hear about any lesson from the Dean campaign beyond building the email list because the rest of it was about losing control...no, that's the wrong phrase (Z says). It's about trust.

JD Lasica leads a panel on what the media will look like. On it are public radio guy Tony Kahn, RocketBoom's Amanda Congdon, and Lisa Stone the law blogger.

Amanda: "We think our viewers are smart. That sets us apart from traditional media." About 20% of RB's stories come from user suggestions.

Tony: "After 35 years in the media, I finally found this new medium [podcasting Morning Stories] that allows me to have fun." It began as a broadcdast. It still is: Once a week to 20,000 listeners. The podcdast is downloaded 300,000 times a month. Then it became a videocast, another barrier knocked down. He says that the traditional public radio infrastructure is both fascinated and terrified by the new media.

(JD puts up on the screen NowPublic. Looks interesting.)

Lisa spends time with mainstream news media, evangelizing the new way of thinking. They are aware that the growth in news is online.

Mary Hodder: Please put media into reusable formats. Of the 72 places I've found for uploading video, half translate into Flash, which is not reusable.

Amanda: Yes. We're Creative Commons and Quicktime.

David Cooperstein: Will traditional media insist on owning their communities?

Lisa: Their incentive is to find a way to capitalize on the Web. (She recommends Lisa William's excellent piece on PressThink.)

Q: Do you align yourself more with newspapers, public radio...?

Amanda: We're looking for our own model. We have 100,000 downloads a day. In March we could have been bought out by a huge company, but we won't do it.

Liz Lawley leadsa a discussion of issues around how we organize ourselves online. She points out the the hostility toward conversation built into the architecture of this room. She points out that a significant portion of the audience consists of people who see one another at conferences frequently, while the rest are not a part of this permanent floating conversation. (She's posted a bunch of quotes relevant to the topic on her blog.)

Tina Sharkey of AOL says they try to avoid getting into the middle of the conversations.

Joe Hurd formerly VP of BizDev at Friendster, asks if social software is very much a US thing. Friendster never really took off in Japan, he says, because there is a cultural reluctance to put a lot of information about yourself online, and even more reluctance to make your social network available online.

Tina: Comfort is such an important factor.

Q: The new language of IM. which I see my daughter using, excludes me.

Q: (me) Liz began with a quote from Churchill about us shaping our buildings and then our buildings shaping us. So, how can we shape the software so it doesn't exclude entire cultures, especially within a global company? Or is it that software has to have some shape, so someone should be excluded? A: Pay attention to what your users want. Give your users the tools so they can shape their space. [Ok, but the shaping happens at a fundamental level: You have a profile or you don't. You can use multiple screen names or you can't.]

Tina says rather than aggregating content, we can aggregate people and the content will follow. E.g., Stowe mentions LastFM (?) that lets you find other people with similar music tastes. [And social groups have formed at del.icio.us around people who use the same tags.]

Liz: There's also the tyranny of the crowds: "Everyone is linking to that so I should also."

Q: Large communities are fragile. What keeps communities robust and dynamic? And if you look at Xanga - 23M users, but no one talking with anyone else - it's not a community of affirmation.

Joe: You keep giving new capabilities, e.g., photo uploading.,

Stowe Boyd leads a discussion on what has to happen for business to embrace social software. What has to change? On the panel are Seth Goldstein and Kaliya Hamlin. It is an open discussion.

Because my head is 75% focused on my !@#$% broken laptop.

I'm at a conference sponsored by Corante and hosted by Berkman, but I dropped my laptop and it is totally hosed. I did this about an hour before I was to present the opening talk. So I did it without my slides. But the bigger issue is that my laptop is hosed. It boots, but the System process is running 99% of the time. Also, the usb ports are dead and the IBM recovery softrware doesn't load. This has me so upset that I'm not able to live blog. (I'm typing this on a friend's laptop. Thanks, Jeanne.)

Jimmy Carter, our greatest ex-president, on what's gone wrong. (Thanks to DC Stultz for the pointer.) The opening:

In recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.

These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human rights.

Also endangered are our historic commitments to providing citizens with truthful information, treating dissenting voices and beliefs with respect, state and local autonomy and fiscal responsibility...

Here are two points that I had to remove from my piece in the Sunday Boston Globe due to space constraints. People have sent me email about both.

First, books are way complex. What is Hamlet? Any book of the play? The Signet edition? A reprint of the Signet edition? The Signet edition with a new preface? With errata corrected? The Signet large print edition? The German translation? The original manuscript? Hamlet in the one-volume Collected Works? This matters because when you're looking for a copy of Hamlet, you're acting as if that were unambiguous when in fact there are various forms of the book that will or will not satisfy you. This is the type of complexity that drives people to create ontologies. Short of that, xISBN tries to cluster books in reasonable ways. . And there's a standard (I can't lay my hands on it now — FRBR? — I'm slightly on the road) that lays out the various levels of abstraction.

Scott Kirsner has a terrific column on whether and when buzz marketing goes over the line.

To me the principle is straightforward: Intentionally giving people extrinsic reasons to hawk your products frays the trust that enables conversation to proceed. It's worse if the hawkers don't disclose their extrinsic motivations, but even when they do, this type of buzz marketing makes life just a little bit worse.

This short piece in the Boston Globe Ideas section started out as an article about the Dewey Decimal system in the digital age, with Google Print as a hook. But the hook ate the fish. [Tags: EverythingIsMiscellaneous google GooglePrint metadata taxonomy]

Glenn Fleishman has a fascinating post about this very issue today. What a coincidence!

The Washington Post reports that that the Democrats are seriously trailing the Republicans in the fund-raising race, and Howard Dean is being blamed for it.

Maybe if the Democratic Party sounded more like Candidate Dean, they'd raise more money, especially among the small donors. For example:

What is the Democratic Party's position on the war in Iraq? Anybody know?

I went to the party's site to find out. Holy crap, there are four major headings on the page: the blog, national, local and communities (= interest groups). The biggest issue in the country is the war in Iraq and it doesn't even make it as a major heading in the Democrats agenda. "Dean Commemorates the Start of Yom Kippur" is on the home page, but not "Stop the war now!"

If you go to the pulldown for the small "Agenda" button at the top, the headings are: Strength at home, strength overseas, economic growth, better education...etc. "The war in Iraq" doesn't make it into the top ten. The "strength overseas" link leads to a blog aggregator that does eventually list a few references to the war.

Here's the closest I could come to a policy statement on the war, granted after only about five minutes of poking around: "That is why Democrats are unwavering in our commitment to pressing President Bush for a clear plan for victory in Iraq."

So, Democrats favor "victory"? Then they bash Bush for not presenting a clear plan for it? Care to look in the mirror, fellas?

If the Democrats at this point still don't have the courage to come out against the war, loudly, proudly and unambiguously, then to hell with them. [Tags: politics iraq democrats HowardDean]

Lessig on why the argument against Google Print is actually an argument against the internet's greatest value.

[Tags: LawrenceLessig GooglePrint google DigitalRights]