In a bit of police-state jujitsu, the tables are turned on the police.
The New York Times’ blog Screens calls police brutality videos a “microgenre”:

[The video] shows two LAPD officers beating up a suspect as he chokes out the words, “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.” His face is smeared with blood.
On the strength of the [...]

Word For The Day: Proxenetism
A few days ago, I watched the Republican Party lose the U.S. Senate, in large part because people were disgusted with Montana’s Conrad Burns’ and Ohio’s Mike DeWine’s cosy relationship with influence peddler Jack Abramoff.
Americans got sick of it (finally).
Now, with a cheery ignorance that the lies, deceit, [...]

Silicium is a whimsical French society with a serious goal: collecting ancient computers.
Comprising a dozen active members, along with “hundreds of sympathizers”, they organize meetings where thousands come to commune with beautiful (and hideous) old machines.
Silicium’s tenth annual exposition, Vieumikro, will be held this December 2 and 3 at the convention [...]

Unaffected - check
Honest - check
Excited and passionate - check
Knows his subject - check
Curious - check
Cares - check
He works at Sun. He designs important software.
He’s reporting, bemusedly, on the ultra-serious people being ultra-serious at the Web 2.0 Conference.
He’s finding his voice and hitting his stride over at his new blog.
He’s my little brother [...]

“So John Gilmore linked to my post today.”
“You mean Dan Gillmor.”
“Nope. John Gillmore — Center for Citizen Media”
“Wrong guy. You’re talking about Dan.”
I looked it up. James was right. I shouldn’t have to look it up. I’ve worked with one and been pingbacked by the other, so I ought to [...]

New proposed legislation would make it a crime, punishable by four years in jail, to anonymously send email, join a chat forum, download content, or write a blog.

The bill states that every user must fully identify herself before using the Net, with full name, current address, phone number and… Social Security Number. [...]

Why do you waste your time and money on things like music and computer games?
Your money, because you’re persuaded by emotion. Your time, because part of your brain thrives on complexity.
Susan Crawford, my favorite ICANN Board Member, writes in a recent post about how people are drawn to complexity, especially as they get older. [...]

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Remember when weeks passed between domain name registrations?
Check out the first 100 domain names ever registered.
Shockingly, sex.com and god.com weren’t among them. The geeks at the time didn’t believe in either one…

Microsoft is now accredited by ICANN to register names in .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, and .PRO. Microsoft follows Amazon in 2003 and Google in 2005.
Microsoft is making this move so they can register names in connection with their Windows Live initiative, and also, like Google Registrar before them, to get preferential [...]