9. April, 2003 - war=peace—freedom=slavery—ignorance=strength
- Why we may never regain the liberties that we’ve lost [popups]. Well, a state of permanent war (on terrorism) means that the government will be unlikely to ever relax the restrictions it’s placed on us. A pretty pessimistic article to read first thing in the morning. But hey, we’re only 19 years behind schedule. [boing boing]
- There was A shadowy figure aboard Flight 722, but nobody seemed to care. See a woman’s credit card was stolen, and someone charged an airline ticket for a man with a middle eastern name, to the city where the President was speaking. And orange alert notwithstanding, she couldn’t get anyone to investigate it. [metafilter]
- Domestic Security: The Line Starts Here. Seems the snake-oil salesmen have been queueing up for a while, but now the money’s starting to flow out from the government, and the feeding frenzy has turned into a full-on orgy of greed. [boing boing]
- Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers. The librarians in Santa Cruz are now shredding records as soon as they no longer need them. Less for the feds to subpoena. Nice work. [endwar]
- All-seeing tour guide spots NY’s eyes. The Video Surveillance Tour of Manhattan will show you all the surveillance cameras along the tour route. [fark!]
- Belgium guts ‘genocide law’ to end war crimes cases against Sharon, Bush Sr., others [popups]. Seems that people were getting prosecuted that they figured shouldn’t have been, so the law’s been modified a smidge. Isn’t that special? [metafilter]
- EMI Music Anti-Copy Control Information. Seems EMI’s (Capitol Records here in the US) now releasing all CDs with Copy Control, which means they aren’t actually CDs. And a Canadian’s giving them a fair amount of grief about it. [colby cosh]
- Damn. I missed the Circle Line Party II (and I). They nearly made two laps of London before getting shut down. Quite the cool concept. Check out Santacon 2001, too. Oh man! It hurts to laugh.
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Last updated on Wed, 09 Apr 2003 09:00:53.