The Sunday Washington Post had an op-ed piece by a Palestinian describing first hand what their existence is like.

Remeber when AOL “bought” Time Warner? Now AOL Time Warner is dropping AOL from its name.

What do you think these monkeys would say about President Bush’s economic agenda?

Looks like the maintainers of BIND (the software that provides DNS services for most name servers) are going to route around the Verisign DNS hack that was introduced this week.

Somehow I missed that part 2 of Slate’s Guide to the Patriot Act was published the other day.

Timothy Noah has an update on the Valerie Plame scandal. Ambassador Wilson has stated in no uncertain terms that it was Karl Rove that outed his wife as an undercover CIA agent to Robert Novak. He has since backtracked from the assertion, but given the way he stated it at the time, I believe that’s who he thinks did it. One wonders why there hasn’t been a more thorough investigation into this outright lawlessness.

Kevin Drum: An Interview With Paul Krugman

VeriSign is evil and must be destroyed. More proof, if you need it.

Tim Bray offers a first hand account of the process of filing for software patents.

Zug was one of the first things I saw on the Web that made me laugh really, really hard. Those prank emails from “Baked Ham” at aol.com were great at the time. Until I saw a link at Boing Boing today, I didn’t know that he was up to the same old pranks. In this case, he has the transcript of a prank call to the RIAA.