The EFF is encouraging us to thank Gateway for its very public stance in favor of basic fair use rights when it comes to music.
OK, here’s another bill we all have to fight. Fortunately, it was introduced by South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings, so we don’t have to do much analysis to know it’s bad news. It’s called the Online Personal Privacy Act (s.2201) and basically it legitimizes all existing spyware. Jerks.
The EPA is considering changing clean water rules to make it legal to dump mining waste generated by mountaintop removal coal mining into streams and rivers.
Lev Grossman blurbed Mozilla for Time this week. Ignore the piss poor description of open source.
I learned at Media News that the Wall Street Journal is auctioning off a bunch of “hedcuts” (the pen and ink portraits that the WSJ uses) for charity on eBay. I don’t want illustrations of any of the freaks that they’re selling on my wall, but I’d like to get one done of myself. An image of one on this site might make things a bit more distinguished around here.