Another day, another schedule that didn’t work the way I planned. You’ve heard it before. Not much else to say at the moment.
- Say it ain’t so! Sex Enhancement Pills Fall Short? Well, actually, yes. And the Center for Science in the Public Interest wants the FTC to shut down the manufacturer. [gweilodiaries]
- In People Are Now Putting Mistakes On The Internet, Evan says that there it appears it wasn’t Tytler who originally said the quote
democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
that I pointed to last Wednesday. Or at least there isn’t any evidence to prove it was. Only took a couple days to get a correction out, rather than Rathering about for a couple weeks. And here it is, a day later, and there’s more. [101-280] - Bruce Schneier says City Cops’ Plate Scanner is a License to Snoop, and spends a fair amount of time saying that the biggest difference in new technologies like this is that they allow cops to check up on everybody rather than just those suspected of some crime. It’s changed the balance and there needs to be some legal guarantee to keep the added power from being abused by police.
- Minnesota Independence Party candidates to be on ballot in November. The courts have ruled in their favor, and they’ll be on the ballot. More from the PiPress, including the fact that the Supreme Court hasn’t yet released their opinion. [strib and press-patch]
- Scaled Composites’ SpaceShip One will make its first launch towards winning the ANSARI X PRIZE tomorrow morning at 8am Central Time. This as Richard Branson announces Virgin Galactic, a service that’ll let ordinary people with a couple hundred grand go to space. [boing boing]