from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who’s certainly qualified to serve in that role. In a long, thoughtful blog entry he reports on the barrage of nasty email he receives daily, hourly, from the hard-core right. He says, “…[it] makes you wonder, for the first time in your life, even including the years of Reagan and Bush the elder, if this country is actually, literally, genuinely headed for something more frightening than you’d ever thought possible.”
Uh oh!
Ed Bilodeau is contemplating the freedom he’d have if he didn’t keep his website again. This surely means that he’ll leave us only his archives at a new location for a couple of months until he starts republishing his (always excellent) weblog again. Heh.
Happy Canada Day!
Cringely on Palladium
, Microsoft’s newly announced “secure” OS. He pretty much nails it in my opinion. Most disturbing is the unspoken question: has Microsoft purposely kept thier current offerings vulnerable to drive demand for such a system? If you’re not up to date on Palladium, here’s a quote from the article: “…the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology owned by Redmond. That’s taking the Internet and turning it into MSN.”
Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing
: “The most harmful lie you can tell about the Web is that permission is a prerequisite for linking. There is no copyright interest in controlling how people reference your work.”
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