Death and Passwords. Wired has an article about a topic that I've thought about on several occasions: Dead Men Tell No Passwords. The man in charge of archiving and maintaining electronic copies of Norway's most important historical documents is dead and so is access to those archives. So the director of the Norwegian cultural center is pleading for hackers to help him crack the center's password-protected database. Permalink Created Wed, 23 Jul 2003 ### [The J-Walk Blog] 
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Do Amazing Things -- For 60 Days. For a small shipping and handling fee, you can get a copy of Microsoft's Do Amazing Things DVD-ROM. Among other things, it contains a full-length movie, and a series of short films shot in high-definition video. But, according to a post in a private newsgroup, the movies expire after 60 days. "Clicking and launching one video will start a 60 day countdown for all of them". This fact, of course, is not mentioned on the web site or on the DVD packaging. So, basically, this is just some kind of...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog] 
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Meditation in the Workplace?. prostoalex writes "Nortel, Texas Instruments, Raytheon, Google, Apple and many others are apparently finding meditation and yoga to be a very efficient way to ... [Slashdot] 
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He, like, hits the notes with his mind. "Un-******-believable" is how this link was related to me, and I think you will agree. The link is a video showing a player of a DDR-type synchrony game involving buttons musical notes. I found his display a simply stunning display of human adaptability. Wow! [MetaFilter] 
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"Saving the Net". The editor of LinuxJournal, Doc Searls, has a very interesting article about how regulation in the telecommunications and broadcast industries is leaking its way into the Internet. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs] 
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Take 2 Thorazine & call me in the morning.. The American Gallery of Psychiatric Art. 'Sanity For Sale: 1960-2000'. Magazine advertisements for psychiatric medications in the latter half of the twentieth century. [MetaFilter] 
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Translocations. An online exhibition of network-based art from Brazil, China, Croatia, India, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. [Blogalization Community] 
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The Bloggy Politic.

John Palfrey points to an interesting Boston Globe article on the impact of blogs on the current election cycle: "'Blogs' shake the political discourse." Rick Klau, in the article, discusses why voter trust and blogging may go hand in hand: "These are very honest opinions, and they're not poll-tested." Note that Rick puts his savvy where his mouth is, and has been helping the Dean campaign add features to its official blog.

But as Dave Winer and others have noted, while blogging candidates are exciting they are just part of the equation and it's the folks on the ground who may supply coverage and information about the 2004 U.S. elections the likes of which we've never experienced. Stop by Cameron Barrett's Watchblog: 2004, for example, for some multi-party, multi-editor immersion in the issues and candidates. [via Sabrina Pacifici]

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