Plurib.us

If you're interested in copyright and intellectual property, then I highly recommend all of these sites:

publicknowledge.org/
law.duke.edu/cspd/index.htm...
creativecommons.org/

I heard about this on the radio, and kept forgetting to look it up;  Robotwisdom had to remind me.

"Jesse Ventura's advice to Schwarzenegger"

time.com/time/magazine/...

New strips at Get Your War On (daily?)  [update: not daily.]
mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war2...

Breaking news and discussion on all kinds of transportation:

transportblog.com/

"Good grammar," in the fullest sense of the term, is neither an embellishment nor an accessory to anything else. It is the Law by which meaning is found and made. It may be, of course, that a good "education" ought to provide something more, but it is preposterous, perhaps even wicked, to suggest that it can be had with anything less.

As if grammar even needed a good defense.
sourcetext.com/grammarian/the...

(From The Underground Grammarian-- sourcetext.com/grammarian/ )

Soothing philosophy on Law, Time, and GPL.

theregister.co.uk/content/4/3227...

But in about two hundred years someone would have to secede from the California Republic, because it takes about two hundred years for any system to get corrupted and monopolised.

Some bizarre usages of domain names:

thievery.com/
uhg.com/

Researchers at the University of Washington reveal equasion that predicts with 94% accuracy the likelihood of a successful marriage based entirely on a 15 minute conversation.

nationalpost.com/home/story.htm...

This is a good video game development concept (2nd half of article).  If only more companies were making simpler games with "broader appeal".

theregister.co.uk/content/54/322...

Mr. Driller
Super Monkey Target
Mr. Driller
Hot Shots Golf 3
Mr. Driller...

Wow, this is bizarre:

A Missouri company has been fined $6,000 for answering a customer's question and not reporting to the federal government that the question was asked. The question that's punished by law is: Are any of these products made in Israel, or made of Israeli materials?

(unknownnews.net/0626-2.html)

Free online courses from the BBC on how to do what they do, in case you find yourself working with them.

bbctraining.co.uk/onlineCourses....

I've been reading through the articles at thehighhat.com/ , and they're all really good.  Plus, it's brand new.  Shiny!

Is "Sesame Street" going to be cancelled due to budget cutbacks?

Does swallowed chewing gum stay in your stomach for seven years?

You'll be the least-misinformed kid on the block with the Urban Legends Reference Pages.

snopes.com

Play 20 Questions against a computer!  It figured out "bassoon" in 28, which is pretty impressive, considering.

y.20q.net/

Warning:  Addictive.

And you thought the Toyota Echo looked weird.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2003...

Is it just me, or are we getting a wave of grounded publications about the 'war'?  (I haven't been watching much TV lately, just MPR [radio news] and internet.)

tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/I...

Robot creators among us, see this: ROBOSNAIL.  Emulating real snail motion.

web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/r...
(mockery:) theregister.co.uk/content/28/317...

Netscape is being "killed off".  The new mozilla.org is awesome, with links all over the main page to FireBird 0.6.  I now recommend firebird & thunderbird full force.

theregister.co.uk/content/4/3176...
theregister.co.uk/content/7/3094...
mozilla.org/

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The most unambiguous article I've found:
news.com.com/2100-1032_3-10...

Philosophy majors, why wasn't this addressed earlier?
tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/I...

Also watch out, if this sort of thing keeps up, it could be the next big fashion in American media.
nytimes.com/2003/07/16/int...

Freaky internet/phone/etc. surveillance plans.  Get scared.
pbs.org/cringely/pulpi...

Also, not exactly relatingly, the latest fashion in press now seems to be to examine whether or not it was right to invade Iraq.  Here are some of the more bizarre explanations:
tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/I...

I remember this being a big deal back when Eolas sued MS (what seems like years ago), and it appears that it's in court now.
theregister.co.uk/content/4/3161...

Photos of SF after the Earthquake of 1909.  Note link at bottom to tethered balloon photo.

quake.wr.usgs.gov/info/1906/

Need an Atom-Rearranger?  Roller Skis?  Jet-Propelled Pogo Stick?  Female Road Runner Costume?

ACME's catalog is online! 

home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/ac...

Some nice meta-election commentary.  We need more meta-election commentary.

tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/I...

Nike vs. Kasky: Apparently the Calif. Supreme Court ruled on the 26th something unsatisfactory for Nike Inc.  What it ruled, or the significance of the ruling (even after research), still confuses me.  I think I need a N vs K timeline with some details on the hierarchies of the courts.  Any enlightenment is welcome in the "Discuss" section.

(Non-pro-corporate-free-speech articles are hard to find.)

boston.com/dailyglobe2/17...
cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/27...
bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/ne...

Search page:
news.google.com/news?hl=en&...

ICANN, emperor of the www, might start not to be such a hated entity - with its first respectable action in a while.

theregister.co.uk/content/6/3145...

Today is the first day that you can add your name to the National Do-Not-Call registery.  It takes effect roughly 3 months after you register, and there are some various exceptions and exemptions built in, but it's one of the more apparent ways that the Fed. Gov. will improve the quality of my life.

donotcall.gov/

Legality of music sharing software: honestly, this scares me a little.
theregister.co.uk/content/6/3143...

The following program is the obvious answer, but I can't seem to get it to do anything useful.  (It's not developed enough yet to be super useful even in theory, anyway.)  I endorse giving it a try, at your own risk.

freenetproject.org/

While I'm on the subject, it's now law that the internet is filtered at libraries - unless you ask for it.  Don't ask me; just read.

theregister.co.uk/content/6/3138...

A small sampling of entries in this weblog tells me that this person and I have some overlapping modes of thought.

strike-the-root.com/blog/

Nestle sued for marketing rather icky water as "Poland Springs" spring water:
biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030618/...

Nestle's counter-webpage:
truthaboutpolandspring.com/