Jake's Radio 'Blog: Sun, Jun 23, 2002

Sunday, June 23, 2002

Lena was in bed with her lover, Sven, when she heard her husband, Ole, opening the front door. "Hurry!" Lena said, "Stand in the corner." She quickly rubbed baby oil all over Sven and then she dusted him with talcum powder. "Don't move until I tell you to." she whispered. "Just pretend you're a statue."
"What's this, honey?" Ole asked as he entered the room.
"Oh, it's a statue." Lena replied, nonchalantly. "The Jensons bought one for their bedroom and I liked it so much, I got one for us too." No more was said about the statue.
That night at around two in the morning, while Lena was sleeping, Ole got out of bed, went into the kitchen, and returned with a sandwich and a glass of milk.
"Here," he said to the statue. "Eat this. I stood like an idiot at the Jensons' for three days and nobody offered me so much as a glass of water!"
19:49'07 comment []

Audrey Hudson in the Washington Times: Security bill bars blowing whistle. "A provision in the bill seeking to create a Homeland Security Department will exempt its employees from whistleblower protection, the very law that helped expose intelligence-gathering missteps before September 11."
15:26'32 comment []

Newsweek: The Big Secret.
"As now envisioned, Palladium will ship 'in a future version of Windows.'... By then the special security chips will be rolling out of the fabs, and the computer makers -- salivating at an opportunity to sell more boxes -- will have motherboards to accommodate them. There will also be components that encrypt information as it moves from keyboard to computer... and from computer to screen... Only certain applications will access the part of Windows (nicknamed 'the nub') that performs Palladium's functions with the help of the security chip...
"The first adopters will probably be in financial services, health care and government... Then will come big corporations, where information-technology managers will find it easier to control and protect their networks...
"Finally, when tens of millions of the units are in circulation, Microsoft expects a flood of Palladium-savvy applications and services to spring up -- that's when consumers will join the game..."
[via Wes, who says, "This can't be good."]
14:59'36 comment []

NYT: War on Terror Makes for Odd Twists in Justice System. "While two Americans are being held in military brigs without access to lawyers, two foreigners are being tried in federal court with complete due process."
14:49'26 comment []