Sorry I haven’t been around, but we’ll always have NEWSISH:

• How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook – more and more I hate Facebook. Did you know this?
• Court orders Bush administration to disclose telecom lobbying ties. What about senators? – Good news for Law and order types.
• Leahy takes next step toward holding White House in contempt – It must be ‘grow a pair’ day…
• Venus: Earth’s twin planet? – Cool pictures to boot.
• No Hoff, and now this? – I guess not all remakes can be as good as Battlestar.
• Feds pushing states on gun database – ‘there is no guarantee that the information wouldn’t be used for other purposes‘. You mean the gov’t isn’t completely trustworthy? I would add the question of competency to that as well…nothing like losing 4 million persons mental health records. But its for our own protection, of course…
• This could never be abused either…
• VA GOP will demand ‘oath’ of February primary voters – I can smell the ’08 confidence…
• And if you screen wasn’t cluttered with enough ads…

Short and sweet, pile of links, much to do, this ‘work’ thing stinks.

• Error: Random Classical Music [via Kevin<-Shane<-Digg]
• Why the RIAA may be afraid of targeting Harvard student [Ars]
• BSA, software giants target little guys [Network World]
• Qwest’s Plans for the Future [DSL Reports] – I dig their tagline
• Derailed by Deficient DSL [ComputerWorld]
• Taking Marriage Private [nytimes] – As an unwed cohabitator & domestic partnership participant, I find this interesting.

I have a few more things to opine on later, might not be today.

http://www.iowaroadconditions.org/

Use it now and in the future if you happen to be in iowa.

Don’t expect too much, except some possible Blackberry 8830 test posting.

Thats is correct, I did not go for the iPhone. For some reason I enjoy US Cellular…

Drive by newsish…

• Rumpke Landfill – I’m told its the highest point in Ohio. [ht regreaser]
• My favorite webcomic makes Wired Mag
• Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law – Wired contributor Clive Thompson shares the secret to the evolution ‘debate’: semantics.

This one’s gonna be lame as I have work to do…

• Ric Flair Finance – Speakers/headphones required for full effect [ht Shane->Kevin]
• The Sadistic Wi-Fi Detector – Some people are odd.
• Someone killed Bangladesh’s internet – And you thought your internet service was sketchy.
• Fox Says Mandated PSAs Would Be Illegal – Interesting debate on educating the public about the upcoming digital television switchover.
• On a related spur from the previous item, we continue thinking about digital TV and the issue of multicast must-carry.
• 100Gbps copper – for short distances, so not applicable to most, but the problems of it are interesting…to me at least.
• From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm – via /.
• Uh-oh. It’s Enron all over again – delving headlong into the similarities of the Enron & Mortgage scandals
• And last but definately not least, a single picture editorial:
  Foxnews.com “Most Read” Stories at 1:50 PM CST, on November 14, 2007
  

Today’s Vocab words: arbitrage, eleemosynary

LATE ADDITION: Important though: Broadband data collection bill passes full House – This will hopefully give Congress reason to pressure broadband providers [telcos & cable] to get their butts in gear.

Another Late Addition: Cowbell Hero…

It’s back, and all up in your grill, like so much propane. Taste the heat! NEWSISH:

• Vvvvvvaldez does Videos Without Scenarios. Watch the series so far, then wait for more.
• Via State29, Tax Update Blog give notice of some nice developments out east and other thoughts on corporate tax giveaways here in Iowa. As S29 notes, that last link on TUB should be an eye opener.
• More PAULAs issued after 21 vote – I personally did not care about the 21 vote, it was truly a non-issue. There were/are laws on the books already prohibiting the sale of alcohol to minors, all that was lacking was enforcement. The argument over the bars’ bottom lines was a cute distraction, but it’s nice to see that things are back to normal: students go to bars that serve them, police go after students, students get tickets to pay, bars keep their money, city gets some taxes. Doesn’t everyone win?
  PS – I am of the belief that the drinking age should be 18 and that parents should take a more active role in advising their kids EARLY on the responsibility required with consuming alcohol. It’s that idea of responsibility that seems to be sorely lacking…all around.
• Keep Separation of Local TV and Newspaper Ownership – Former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson debates former DM Register editor Richard Doak on the important issue of media ownership consolidation. I bet you can guess who’s side I’m on.
• Cedar Rapids community rallies to buy art & UI considered selling most famous piece of art – Revenue is needed?
• What $100 Oil Means for Your Wallet – You can always turn your Suburban into a piece of lawn art.
• Online video bad for network TV, good for network web sites
• The AudioFile: Analog-to-digital conversion – A How-to from the folks at Ars.
• DARPA spies on analyst brains; hopes to offload image analysis to computers
• Plant goes off script – Salacious! Totally Not Surprising! While I don’t support Hillary for Pres [or anyone in the field, R or D], I hope the Cool Media Kidz do some digging into all campaigns, at least until OJ or Paris does something stupid.
• FCC’s fascination with cable regulation could lead to a la carte cable – I would say “good”, but then we’re still at just words: the regulatory ability implied is contingent on a specific amount of penetration [70%] and the only real way to get that number is from subscriber counts provided by the companies.

New feature! Regreaser’s Pile of Links

• Left Brain v Right Brain Test – Interesting mind trick, plus a shadowy naked woman.
• Judge to White House: Hold E-mails
• The Death of American Privacy – Because we the government need to protect you. From everything [but us].

Today’s vocab word: pericarp

It’s been a busy week! Don’t expect much from me until next Monday.

This definitely gets its own entry. From a public access show in Atlanta. Probably not suitable for youngin’s. [H/T Josh]

¡Noviembre newsish, ahora mismo!

• No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims – Of course, Big Brother has your best interests at heart. Expect an email encryption tutorial in the near future. Via ./
• Picketing begins in NY in writers strike – Beware the rabid Reality shows, they are a-comin’
• Season 1 of The Jubi Show is in the can! Well, maybe not ‘the can’, but it is grouped together on a magnetic storage medium, as well as an array of DVD discs.
• More Wreck and Salvage available. I’ll need 7 wheel chocks [octogonal], 73 left handed garden trowels, 3 dry erase markers, 1 gallon of kerosene, and 6 packs of Doublemint [Plent-T-Pak]. Place your orders now.
• Verizon DNS Redirection ‘Service’ Spreads – When you have a captive audience due to a mono/duopoly, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
• Senate Committee Approves Broadband Bill – You have to follow the links in the article to get the whole picture, but at first glance this seems like a great step forward for local responsiveness and control over broadband offerings.

maybe some more later. maybe not.