The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation: (11/19/1863)

And now please welcome President Abraham Lincoln.

Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery. It's great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go:....
(via Teal Sunglasses) [via Christopher Ireland's Fresh Perspectives] 
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Walk the Great Wall of China
or rather, take a virtual stroll through the use of a QTVR-esque java applet along a good stretch of the Wall that seems to be in pretty fair shape. For the vast majority of us that will never get there in person, this is an interesting close up. [MetaFilter] 
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Prague Spring
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Posters, pamphlets, social protest material. 'In the morning hours of August 21, 1968, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia along with troops from four other Warsaw Pact countries. The occupation was the beginning of the end for the Czechoslovak reform movement known as the Prague Spring. This web site contains material from the days immediately following the invasion, and they reflect the atmosphere in Czechoslovakia at the time: tense, chaotic, uncertain, full of pathos, fear, and expectation... '

Related :- the Berlin Wall and East Side Gallery; A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall; Szoborpark in Budapest, with its gigantic Cold War-era statues. [MetaFilter] 
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"On Liberty" (1859)
John Stuart Mill's classic, is all over the Web, says this article in Salon.

"It stands to reason that the Net would embrace Mill, and not only because his text is now in the public domain: The Internet is the vastest marketplace of ideas that mankind has yet managed to create. It's an unbounded and still growing embodiment of Mill's ideals." [MetaFilter] 
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Earth Station 5 (ES5)
Via Doc Searls, I learned about Earth Station 5, a new P2P application and network. In general, like the approach, though the UI needs work (or perhaps just a cleaner skin). One of the interesting things about ES5 is that...
(via Web Dawn - Rebirth of the Social Marketplace) [Channel 'social_software'] 
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DECAFBAD Quick links

• DOSEMU Synchronet DOORS HOWTO
• Usurper Home Page (BBS door game)
• Download DoorMUD (BBS door game)
• Way.Nu: Hacking the Watchers
• ssh & rendevous & afp
• I keep doing work, why do they keep yelling at me?
• muteblog
• Understanding the Accelerating Rate of Change
• http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html

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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot:
Robert X. Cringely: Grandiose Schemes for Electronic Eavesdropping May Hurt More Than They Help What do you say? [Hack the Planet]

I say: "..not may hurt..." 
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