Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Google hunts down "President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership" [Daypop Top 40] 9:20:43 PM

Lobbyists Held Party for Bush Telecommunications Official. The Bush administration's top official for telecommunications policy let lobbyists for wireless companies help pay for a private reception at her home. [New York Times: Technology] 9:19:36 PM

Cruelty to Analog: the effort to plug the analog hole. The Motion Picture Association of America's Copy Protection Technical Working Group -- the same people who gave us mandatory DVD use-control systems and proposed the dread broadcast flag mandate -- have struck a new working group to "plug the analog hole." This group is working to make it impossible to digitize an analog signal without a copyright-holder's permission, which means that, for example, politicians could transmit campaign-promise speeches that you can't record to hold them to later. [Boing Boing Blog] 9:16:54 PM

The brains behind Bush. A new book pokes superficially at Karl Rove, the "turd blossom" who orchestrated George W. Bush's presidential campaign and the GOP's November sweep. [Salon.com] One point that authors Dubose, Reid and Cannon drive home is that Rove isn't just willing to play dirty to win elections; nothing but winning really seems to matter to him. 9:08:56 PM

Pork Greases U.S. Weapons Program. In the 13th century, the Venetians built a warship a day to battle Turkey at sea. Today, the Pentagon can barely crank out a new fighter plane in 10 years. Experts blame red tape -- and corruption -- in the military industrial complex. [Wired News] 8:05:54 PM

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