- Jon Carroll tells the FBI I Am Not Now A Blind Cleric. It's a funny essay on the new anti-terrorism strategy the FBI is pursuing. Thanks to the Crypto-Gram Newsletter for pointing it out.
- The bloody truth about Kosovo. Sigh. Now it's the Albanians doing the ethnic cleansing, but apparently that's just fine with our President.
- It's retirement, Charlie Brown. Charles Schulz is hanging it up after 49 years.
- Paul T. Riddell is Killing Millions With A Sharp Twist of the Tongue. Actually he's talking about messing with people's heads by being polite. How very odd. I like it.
- Companies soliciting via email need to Back Off. This is a good article in that it actually looks at how a company you've asked to send you mail should. If they overdo it, they're likely to lose you as a subscriber.
- The European arms hustle tells of William Cohen's arms hawking in Europe. Since 1961, there hasn't been one U.S. secretary of defense who didn't end up a multimillionaire. Ever wonder where the money comes from?
- Judge dismisses Miami-Dade County lawsuit against gun manufacturers. The county is not the proper party plaintiff to bring this lawsuit.
- Big battle expected at S.F. Net tax hearing. It doesn't seem completely unreasonable to me to have to pay taxes on things ordered on the net, but only if the same taxes are charged for things ordered mail-order from catalogs, and if they're the same as the state sales tax I should be paying. Of course all taxation is theft, but it's also much more fair to enforce the laws uniformly.
- You may have had some very young skate board toting library patron ask you, "Do you have any Guyver?" or a student requesting the seven tape set of the Hakkenden, subtitled, or had a club ask to use your meeting room to show anime. Have you wondered what all of this was about? The Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga will tell you.
- Wanna buy a sub? There's a Russian Submarine for sale in Florida. It's the largest existing non-nuclear submarine.