It could be. I’ve spent most of my morning blogging-time working on work and the day already has a frantic feel to it. But hey, at least it’s Friday, right? Only seven more days to the weekend!
- Billmon takes a look at the US and global economies, and figures the economic engine is going to run into a Fuel Shortage eventually. He goes into a lot of detail with graphs and stuff, and ended up convincing me there will be a problem at some point — I just don’t see anything I should be doing differently to prepare for it.
- The Minnesota House votes to ban Actifed, Sudafed in August 2006. I know who to blame during fall allergy season next year when I can’t get one of the few drugs effective at clearing my stuffy head. The Senate’s bill was a little more reasonable, but still went too far, I think. I can only hope they straighten these out during committee, since I would bet that Governor Pawlenty will sign whatever comes his way so he can seem to be
tough on meth.
[strib] - NOAA’s Weather info could go dark under a bill introduced by Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA), which
would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel
. Never mind that NOAA provides raw data to them, too. I’m for a harsh Darwinian business environment. If AccuWeather (who’s the biggest whiner in this case) can’t compete by adding something that the National Weather Service doesn’t, maybe they need to find a new business to be in. [slashdot] - In other news from Washington, Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter mandating harsher penalties for copying files on the internets than for killing someone. The bill will almost certainly be signed by President Bush. [fark!]
- The Register has a WiPhishing hack risk warning which explains why you may never want to pay for wireless access, at least through an on-demand,
enter your credit card now
kind of form like most coffee shops use. [flutterby]