For future reference: a long investigative article on the purported innocence of Leonard Peltier.

You know a company is cool when the person who gets top billing on their logo sightings page is a porn star.

Yesterday, Judge Jackson got his day in court. Well, his day to get savaged remotely in court anyway. What an idiot.

Is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the most dangerous man in America? Probably.

Joe Conason has been on a roll lately. In his latest column for Salon, he looks back at some of the pardons granted by the elder Bush. Included in his pardons along with the members of the Iran-Contra scandal were a Pakistani heroin smuggler, a Cuban terrorist, and suspected Commie sympathizer Armand Hammer. The Hammer pardon is interesting because he was brought up frequently in the previous election cycle in order to tar Al Gore. Hammer in fact donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican causes and obtained his pardon from the first President Bush.

Interesting goings on at the Microsoft appeal yesterday. Dahlia Lithwick summarizes for Slate. Declan McCullagh provides the libertarian spin for Wired.

Looks like the 39% number being tossed around by the RIAA is a bunch of crap. I noticed some seemingly misplaced talk about CD singles in the original BBC story, which didn’t make it clear that the 39% number concerns only CD singles, which make up a minute percentage of overall CD sales. The story has been harshly debunked at Slashdot.

The Register has the full story on the “All your base are belong to us” phenomonon. I knew it was going to be big when Jon Carroll wrote a column about it last week. My favorite “all your base” takeoff is this Flash movie.

The RIAA says that CD sales were down 39% last year. Are they lying? They blame Napster. Is that realistic? I wonder what percentage of people who normally buy CDs have ever seen Napster. I wonder how many of the people that use Napster actually use it to collect music. These questions are begging to be answered, but I think it will be nearly impossible to get honest answers for them since almost everybody involved has loads of cash at stake.

Where does free speech stop and the DMCA start? Let’s find out. Is it legal to express the DeCSS algorithm in haiku? And you have to love Dr. David Touretzky’s request for more detail from the MPA when they asked him to remove a “circumvention device” from his Web site.