It looks like I won’t get a chance to fly the Concorde. From what I’ve heard, it’s pretty sweet, but I can’t make myself believe it’s worth full-fare. Here’s a little more recent info.

Privacy International has issued some Stupid Security Awards. I’ve seen only the summary at the BBC.

In what, as far as I know, is the first “success” for the DMCA, a guy selling mod chips for XBOX has been sentenced to five months of jail followed by five more months of house arrest and fined $28,500.

The King County Library System will no longer be holding their twice-yearly mega-sales of surplus books, but instead will be selling them through a jobber that will sell them on Amazon. Their first jobber was Sweethome, in Texas, but their warehouse was vandalized, wrecking great quantities of books. The second and current jobber is bLogistics in Colorado. They, too, were beset by woe (collapsing shelves) delaying immediate profit. But with a startlingly large amount of effort on my part, I’ve figured out a way to see listings of what bLogistics is selling on Amazon. I don’t know if they’re selling books for anyone else (I hope not, since it sounds like they can hardly handle the volume from KCLS), but here’s an idea of what’s for sale from their warehouse.

Correction! The books are actually listed through a “storefront.”

The NY Times shows every sign of having turned off the ability to get to their content without going through their registration process, even when you get there via Google News. Updates as conditions change, assuming I notice.

Most frequently linked from the NYT, Common Dreams also has this article about librarians ensuring that they don’t have any information they don’t need. I also enjoy the “Fair Use” notice at the bottom of the page.

Kawaii! It’s Astro-Boy’s birthday, and many small cute people are dressing up!

An interesting article Craig points out there, though when they said “nearly all the mainland churches in America oppose this war,” perhaps they mean mainline. Unless the Puerto Ricans have something else to add…

Even worse than simply an idiot puppet, W may believe he is a man on a mission from his god.

Have yourself a virtual shopping spree in any Washington State Liquor Store.