Boing Boing has a nice collection of photos and stories about people who choose not to cave into government and commercial builders and sell their homes for "the good of the community". I really think civic leaders and community planners ought to rethink the way they define the public good. Are malls really for the public good? What about not destroying existing communities and alienating citizens. I hate how eminent domain is used to screw people and really like reading stories like these.
The FBI and Justice Department is "interested in records that would allow them to identify which individuals visited certain Web sites and possibly conducted searches using certain terms. It also wants the Internet companies to retain records about whom their users exchange e-mail with..."
I cannot believe what has happened to our country in the last 8 years. Forget for a moment what you have been taught since you were very young - that the U.S. is a great bastion of freedom and democracy and think about what our country does both in the world and here at home: preemptive war on unfounded grounds, torture and illegal detention, murder (and cover-up) of civilians (oh my god there is another report of this!), spying and wiretapping the phones of it citizens, removing protections to whistle-blowers, fixing elections, and now asking that all user data online be retained for future "use". Aren't these the things that those other countries that we despise do? What way of life are we now protecting and promoting if not one that is free from such things?
A professional data-miner weighs in on how our phone records may really be used.
Are you a woman who needs help making your own decisions? Call South Dakota senator Bill Napoli and ask him what to do: 605-348-7373 work or 605-341-2370 home.
Anything you say (or have ever Googled) can and will be used against you in a court of law