Tenet falls on his sword. BRUTUS: "Farewell, good Strato." Runs on his sword
"Caesar, now be still; I kill'd not thee with half so good a will."
Dies.
Alarum. Retreat. Enter Octavius, Antony, Messala, Lucilius, and the Army.

Hey, folks! See, it was the CIA's fault! Ok, nothing more to see here. [MetaFilter] 
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Quicktime video: Futurecop in Soweto. In what appears to be a faux corporate video spec piece, (about 15 megs, Link), a futuristic robot cop patrols chaotic streets of a developing nation. Update: Some folks are having difficulties loading the movie with that link -- try this direct link to the *.mov file instead. Discuss (Thanks, Marc) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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The Internet Under Surveillance
In his forward to the recent Reporters Without Borders report on the state of internet censorship, Vint Cerf, widely regarded as the "father of the Internet," calls for web users to exercise their critical thinking skills when accessing online information. (SearchEngineWatch) [STOP1984] 
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Iran Joins China in Blocking Blogs. Hoder: July 9 Unrest, Updates. Confirmed reports are saying that akunews (prominent student news website) and major blogging services websites... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Cringely On Electronic Tapping. sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely, the PBS one, has an editorial discussing electronic wire-tapping and the Big Brother concerns. There isn't any new ... [Slashdot] 
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New Microsoft Public Sector Unit to Take on Linux. Microsoft is circling its wagons and planning to mergeits U.S. government and educational services businesses to head Linux off at the pass. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 
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Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness. We are because of others. We are born into this world with minds as naked as our bodies and we have to rely on others to feed, clothe us, and to teach us to think of ourselves as selves. The key is language -- grammatical speech and human culture build upon the brain's biological capacities to create a mind that is something different again than that with which we are born. We are conscious because we can speak to others and ourselves, because we can speak of ourselves to others and ourselves. Language gives us as individuals, memory, and as groups, culture, the social memory. Or so thought Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, among others. Welcome to the the neuronaut's guide to the science of consciousness. [MetaFilter] 
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Salon: From June 10, 1999; Can history survive Silicon Valley? [Tomalak's Realm] 
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The Economist: Storing e-text for centuries. Rather than invent a better mousetrap, they are using existing technology to imitate an important function of libraries. They want to ensure that readers will still be able to access electronic academic journals even centuries after they have been published. [Tomalak's Realm] 
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