[[ MemeStreams ]] Deletes Spam. Sips the tea substitute.Watches the gray light becoming more like day.

[[ MemeStreams ]] Deletes Spam. Sips the tea substitute.Watches the gray light becoming more like day. The blog of this guy named Tom Cross. I'd use the permalink but there is no obvious way back to his blog from the article, and there is some other interesting stuff there. Anyway, that article contains a link to an open letter he wrote concerning DNS whois and privacy and annonymity and stuff.

GITS2

Nothing but link

New Senate bill would ban P2P networks [Politech]

New Senate bill would ban P2P networks [Politech] Declan talks about the bill, there is also a link to his news.com article. More coverage at Wired.

All may not be lost

It seems that some Dutch activists have been hard at work trying to reverse the Council of Ministers vote that overturned the European Parliament amendments to the European patent clarification act.

Euro 2004

How true it is.

Police slap cuffs on Punk SMSer

An article at The Reg about a guy who sent lyrics from The Clash's Tommy Gun to the lead singer of his tribute band. 'pparently he used the wrong phone number and sent it to some lady in Birmingham. A month later Special Branch are knocking on his door ...

The lyrics in question? "OK - SO LET'S AGREE ABOUT THE PRICE AND MAKE IT ONE JET AIRLINER AND TEN PRISONERS"

Generic names for soft drinks by county

Amusingly enough, the map doesn't explicitly have a section for "soft drink", nor the term my parents use: "fizzy drink." Some remarkably sharp deliniations though.

More Scientific American stuff

Yay! and Doh!

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Mitochondrial Mutations Blamed for Aging

So in addtion to telomerases, we need to re-engineer our mitochondrial DNA polymerase-gamma. Still, progress.