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Tuesday, December 31, 2002   New Year's eve afternoon.  About to head to Arkansas and spend New Year's day with Mom and Jim.  Although it is past, I wish a Merry merry and a Happy happy to you all.  Hopefully I get back to doing this a little more in the future.  Thanks for stopping by... dennisRadio...        dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 2:24:23 PM      Again from TSL Will McCain Side With Consumers' Fair Use Rights?. Last week, The Washington Post ran a story about Senator John McCain's return to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. Commerce Power Shift Could Shake Up Piracy, Broadband Debates speculates how the change from media puppet Fritz Hollings to McCain could affect broadband policy, telecom deregulation, and copyright law. While I agree that it's too difficult to predict how these issues will fare under McCain, I do think fair use rights stand a better chance at McCain-governed hearings than in any session Hollings ever controlled. This article has been making the rounds of the blogosphere and it's definitely worth your read, but I haven't seen anyone highlight my favorite quote from it yet, so here it is for posterity. "I never want to underestimate the (MPAA's) ability to lobby these issues," Miller said. "If Jack Valenti had been around at the time of Gutenberg he would have organized the monks to come and burn down the printing press." - Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America [The Shifted Librarian]      dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 2:03:32 PM      Joe Martin. "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little." [Quotes of the Day]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 2:00:46 PM      Steven Wright. "Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." [Quotes of the Day]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:59:33 PM      Glass Panes and Software: Windows Name Is Challenged. An upstart company, Lindows.com, is trying to persuade the Federal District Court in Seattle to invalidate Microsoft's trademark on Windows. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:55:33 PM      Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do. Joseph Turow has begun a crusade to de-capitalize the word Internet and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:54:59 PM      Diet Monger Ass Kicker 2002-12-31 is a program for designing diets to your own specifications. It allows nutrients and foods to be sorted and filtered into categories such as the food groups, raw only, no salt, or not dried. Calculations are made according to specified minimums and maximums, and using data from the USDA database of 6000 foods and 101 nutrients.  [freshmeat.net]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:49:12 PM      Top 25 Science Stories of 2002 [Slashdot]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:43:52 PM      Interpreting the Cosmic Rays. Doubts about relativity have been caused partly by a mystery regarding cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that rain down on Earth from outer space. By Dennis Overbye. [New York Times: Science]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:40:06 PM      More Than Good Intentions: Holding Fast to Faith in Free Will. From the author of "Rational Mysticism," a look at the notion of free will and whether it, as well as the concept of self, is a myth. By John Horgan. [New York Times: Science]     dennisRadio Encouragement  [] 1:39:31 PM      This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. © Copyright 2003 Larry Boy aka Dennis S. Last update: 6/3/2003; 11:43:35 PM. This theme is based on the SoundWaves (blue) Manila theme. December 2002 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31         Oct   Jan Top 10 hits for Radio Userland on.. 1. Radio UserLand : What is Radio UserLand ? 2. Radio UserLand : Radio UserLand for Webloggers 3. Radio UserLand : Discussion Group 4. Radio UserLand : Download 5. Radio UserLand : Radio 8.0.9b1 -- MacOS X 10.2.2 Crash Fix 6. Radio UserLand : DIY Web Services with Radio 8 7. UserLand .Com: Easy Content Management 8. Index of /0001015/categories/radioUserland 9. LeWeblog.com 10. Radio Userland 8  6/3/2003; 10:52:32 PM.