Drug Policy Alliance Action Center, has made us aware of the new Rave act (thx Jenn)!!! And more info can be found at National Review Online (thx D) and Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund.

Also watch here for my soon to come legal analsys of the Rave Act, the Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act of 2003, and McClure v. Ashcroft!!!

Light Particles Are Duplicated More Than A Mile Away Along Fiber (reg. req.), Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away. Transporter here we come!!!

Suppliers Dim Xbox Sales Picture Sales of Microsoft's Xbox video game console are likely to scrape the low end of current company forecasts, based on recent reports involving key component suppliers. i've been predicting they were in trouble for a while. Looks like the numbers say its true, wonder if there will be an XBox in 2 years!!!

Hollywood Says No To Filtering DVD Player "There is a posting over at ZDNet about how Hollywood continues to trample on the American consumer's free use rights. They want to prevent the sale of a special DVD player which can be used to edit out offensive material from a DVD in realtime. While I don't agree with censorship in general, I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media."

Proposed New Spam Law"Several weeks ago, Larry Lessig proposed anti-spam legislation he'd like to see Congress pass -- legislation which he was willing to bet his job on. A congressional aide appears to be drafting legislation based on Larry's suggestions and is asking the Politech list for suggestions."

Telemarketers Sue to Stop Do-Not-Call List, Telemarketers went to court on Wednesday in an attempt to stop the U.S. government from setting up a proposed "do not call" list that would help consumers block unwanted sales calls. It seems that they forgot comercial speech, can be limited by congress. Moreover it seems that since individuals place themselves on the don't call lists, that telemarketers' comercial speech should recieve no protection because it is the individuals act not a state action that tells them not to call. i my self a huge advocat of free speech however i get and this is a real figure about 90% telemarketing calls at home. Something has to be done!!!

SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now' "EE Times has a piece on progress with the four-year-old DARPA-conceived Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks. Based on Berkeley's TinyOS and TinyDB open-source projects, the article reports several companies are demonstrating both military and civilian applications. Ars Technica adds background and commentary on issues not discussed in the EET article." Welcome to the future!!!

P2P Content Delivery For Open Source, "The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver open source, public domain, and Creative Commons-licensed content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened/slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site can easily join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site." Lessigs minions are building weapons!!!

Griffin Technology iTrip, no not that kind. For all the kiddies out there with thoes cool little ipods i want so much, say bye,bye wires, this time with style!!!

Casperelectronics, got the goods on speak and spell and speak and math! cool sounds. reminds me of the atari 2600 generator. thanks paul!!!

still sick!!!

saw anna paquin on way out of park city. wow!!!

back now but very sick. have been in bed for 3 days, phone off. hope to be up and around soon.

Missed 28 days 1 and a 1/2 times. Waited 3 hours. Bummer. See it latter. Off to in america us premier. Seriously best movie i have seen in years! Cried like a baby now understand the samantha morton buzz. Look for the two kids in the film to do great things! Off to la at 1055. Asr on thursday.

Got into southwestern entertainment llm program. Will likely start in summer.

Selma`s movie the bomb. Laughed cried loved it! Now for danny boyle.

Dustin hoffman on street. Solders girl trans-sexual love story. Brilliant. The share of things adapted play by lebute. I liked it but g and john no love. Stoked the gator story. Wicked brilliant! Just saw fonda and now gona see him in selma direct debute.

Worked on Charlie's again. Did two nights. Saw a car flip over! It was a pretty cool stunt. Hal worked on the set too. Now i am hopefully off to see Eric in Salt Lake. Gona do some boarding and see some films at Sundance with G and HT! I hope anyway. Next week Asr Long Beach is on. Gona be a fun next few weeks.

iGo, the coolest computer desk like thingy i have ever seen. This is reason alone to have an iMac!!!

I, Cringely, compu pundent Crigly on Aplle and M$. Good Article but this quote is the reason i posted it. A wonderful bit about the M$ case i had never heard before. Funny now it seems so obvious... "Apple feels it needs Microsoft, Microsoft demands a pound of flesh, and Apple gives in.? Most recently this happened with web browsers as Microsoft periodically threatened to drop Internet Explorer for the Mac.? And they probably should have dropped it, too, since the Macintosh product was the fatal flaw in their "IE is just a part of Windows" legal strategy of a couple years ago.? I took great pleasure at that time in asking Steve Ballmer what part of Windows was Internet Explorer for Macintosh?" Love that!!!

Bar Monkey!, simply put, is a vending machine that serves mixed drinks. Just go see the damn thing!!!