- I've updated my Downtown Minneapolis pictures.
- If it's listed on Fat Chuck's Corrupt CD List, it's probably not a good present to buy for the geek in your life this year.
- Passenger on Flight 93 Inspires Neil Young Song. Be forwarned, the link will do a popup ad if you've got Javascript on. But the story's cool.
- Molly Ivins' Is Ashcroft safe and sane? It doesn't seem like it. Yep, if we had a constitution largely rewritten by John Ashcroft, as opposed the one we're stuck with by such picayune minds as Madison, Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, etc., we'd be a lot safer today. Check out her Loopholes in civil liberties column, too. Good stuff. Ex-FBI Officials Criticize Tactics on Terrorism is one of the things she refers to. Ashcroft: Critics are aiding the enemy is the latest insanity. I wonder how long it will be before the Shrub cuts this madman loose.
- Neal Boortz on the Patriot Act. I strongly suspected few congress-critters actually read the thing. And yes, it's pretty darned spooky.
- i-SEE provides Routes of Least Surveillance. Except for the part where the camera angles and range isn't taken into account. Another nearly-cool privacy tool.
- MN company out to make tracks to aid troops. The company, Mattracks is from northern Minnesota, and developed the tracks for driving 4WD pickups in the snow. Seems like just the sort of thing that might be useful in Afghanistan.
- I've had enough of The Invention That Runs On Hype. Sort of like geodesic domes. And I still have people telling me the initial leak about this mutant offspring of a lawnmower and a floor-polisher was unintentional.