Sometimes if you want to win the case you've got to outbid your opponent for the key evidence. [Ernie the Attorney]

In New York Tickets, Ghana Sees Orderly City. If you are caught playing your radio too loudly in Times Square your ticket does not just go to City Hall to be processed. It goes to Ghana. By Robert F. Worth. [New York Times: International]

For Sale: Mountains Entwined in the Scottish Soul. Talk of the sale of a 22,300-acre Scottish mountain range has stirred a brew of resentment, mixed with deeper thoughts about the rightful ownership of wilderness. By Alan Cowell. [New York Times: International]

Information Week: Are You Blogging Yet? [Scripting News]

One thing I wish the EFF should do. Why don't they blow the trumpet on comScore? This company has tricked millions of people into "download accelerators" and other trojan horse software that tracks their traffic, credit card usage (it actually captures numbers), and more -- all in the name of so-called research. Most of the download accelerator software providers they use are front companies.

Hey, this is one of the worst violations of privacy I have ever seen and nobody knows about them. You know why they don't? Here is the address of the company:
Reston Office (headquarters):
11465 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 200Reston, VA 20190
Telephone: 703-438-2000
Fax: 703-438-2051
Yahoo Driving Directions

If you don't get the implications of this, ask someone what government agency is based in Reston VA. BTW: comScore just bought Media Metrix and now own the online consumer data market.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Mafia Songs Break a Code of Silence. Highly gory folk songs developed by the Mafia in Calabria, Italy, will debut in America with the release of a CD entitled Il Canto di Malavita. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: Arts]