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• Announcements

  • A shaky recovery?
  • ARTS & FARCES awarded substantial judgment against Ventana Press, Inc.
  • About ARTS & FARCES LLC
  • About Karen Fraase....
  • About Michael Fraase
  • Architectural changes
  • Atom feed deprecated
  • Back on the air
  • Changing directions
  • Contact information
  • Copyright information
  • Error 404: page not found
  • ExpressionEngine public beta 2 installed
  • ExpressionEngine/MySQL hacker gig
  • Full recovery; time for vacation
  • Grand Old Day 2002
  • Heads up -- major breakage on the way
  • Heads up: more changes
  • Hurricane Katrina aid
  • Information Eclipse available online again
  • Introducing the Qwest PPC-6700Q wiki and website changes
  • Membership and comments disabled
  • Minor architectural changes to the website
  • Moving back to farces.com
  • Off to Gnomedex
  • Online systems consolidation
  • Privacy policy
  • RSS 1.0 feed update (new URL)
  • Recovering from a train wreck
  • So long Google AdSense, it's been good to know ya
  • Switching to Google Talk
  • Syndication policy
  • System update
  • System update (again)
  • This time it goes up to 11
  • University of Minnesota appointment
  • Version the tenth
  • Welcome to ARTS & FARCES internet 9.0

• Blotter

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• Business

  • A different kind of car; a different kind of car company: Not so much
  • A simple fix for the mortgage crisis
  • American trash
  • And the race is on
  • Apocalyptic banking system collapse
  • Bankruptcy off the rails revisited
  • Bee Bleedorn and the Minnesota Creatives
  • Big pharma price run-up to cover US$8 billion cost cutting pledge
  • Buy nothing day
  • Buy nothing day 2008
  • Buying a laptop bag? Stay away from Booq
  • Cluetrain pulls into the station -- take delivery
  • Confiscate the Northwest Airlines gates
  • Consumer Reports fails epically on refrigerator ratings
  • Consumers on top or bottom?
  • Corporate rights and responsibilities
  • First the siren call, then the screech
  • Fixing the US financial system's problems
  • Follow the power, not just the money
  • GAO study reveals 10% of public firms restated earnings since 1997
  • Gordon Gekko was a piker
  • Have they all become General Motors?
  • How the Masters of the Universe got that way
  • IBM service adventure
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. puts squeeze on responsible users of credit
  • John Robb on the new economy
  • Long boom or long fizzle
  • Making it in the long tail
  • Microsoft wins; game over
  • Minnesota CEO pay rises 18% in 2001
  • More lying liars
  • Nationalization, mark to market, or a middle way
  • New York Times: Walk away from your mortgage
  • No good deed goes unpunished
  • No-travel meetings
  • Oh noes, White Lily is done
  • Only oligarchs benefit from rising productivity
  • Open source business management
  • Opting out of Linkedin
  • Paid vacation: what a concept
  • Pimps and whores
  • Pin the tail on the donkey
  • PowerPoint zen
  • Prepare for another surprise
  • Putting them out of our misery
  • Reverse merit pay
  • SEC may finally investigate role of Goldman Sachs in US mortgage market collapse
  • Six Apart and transparency
  • Sold on Briggs & Riley and Luggage World
  • Springtime ballpark fever
  • State pension funds: Changing the game after it's over
  • Tech support as if it mattered
  • Ten things to ask your employer
  • The Enron tapes
  • The Triple P Scale
  • The art of the deal: Dancing in the dark
  • The deadbeats of the credit card industry aren't who you think
  • The kiss of venture capital death
  • The prime directive of American jurisprudence
  • There's people in there
  • This is customer service?
  • Time to nationalize pension shedders
  • Trading clarity for an illusion
  • Want to move to Amsterdam? It's not moving here
  • What happens when the dollar collapses?
  • Why we hate Wall Street executives
  • Why we use PayPal
  • blogtank

• Censorship

  • Anti-terrorism v. free speech
  • Apple irrevocably steps over the censorship line
  • Apple whacked with bloggers' legal fees
  • CDA II rides again
  • Child Online Protection Act (COPA) blocked
  • China to crack down on journalism
  • Delete your server logs
  • Does Cisco help the Chinese censor dissent?
  • First Amendment challenge in Minneapolis
  • First Amendment works on the internet
  • Flynt winks; C-SPAN blinks
  • Forcing free speech
  • Gingrich calls for reexamination of first amendment
  • Google disappears Tibet
  • House of indecency
  • Journalists as criminals under espionage laws
  • Keeping secrets in the Bush white house
  • Library Internet filtering update
  • Library filtering law overturned
  • Limits to free speech
  • Mandatory school and library filters proposed
  • New York Times under fire
  • New verb alert: Klein-spiked
  • Peace demonstration as treason
  • Searches for "abortion" on Popline blocked
  • Taking a sledgehammer to an ant
  • Telecommunications reform bill (Communications Decency Act)
  • The move toward protected commercial speech
  • Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner agree to censor net

• Cryptography

  • Clinton's new cryptography plan
  • Crypto prior restraint
  • DES cracked (again)
  • Not your sister's Nancy Drew
  • SAFE + ProCode = third time charm?

• ESRD

  • A new nephrologist and fistula surgery
  • A step closer to growing our own replacement organs
  • Access to Better Choice in Dialysis Act introduced
  • Adult stem cell breakthrough
  • Anemia or heart problems: take your pick
  • Anonymous kidney donations in Boston
  • Another trip to the hospital
  • Art Buchwald refuses dialysis
  • Aspirin cuts risk of staph infection in dialysis patients
  • Association Dialysis Advocates: Improving care for kidney patients
  • At last, accurate dialysis needle sticks
  • Bad moon rising for 'non-profit' healthcare
  • Bad news for dialysis patients
  • Bernie Sanders introduces single-payer healthcare reform bill
  • Best argument yet for single-payer healthcare
  • Big pharma payola
  • Blogs for the sick and a dialysis update
  • Blood money
  • Bone protein may reverse kidney failure
  • Bush blocks patient injury recoveries
  • Canadian frozen organ transplant breakthrough
  • Catheter + dialysis
  • Clotted fistula
  • Cranking the blood pressure wheel
  • Crash
  • DaVita second-quarter profit nearly doubles
  • DaVita under fire for Epogen overuse
  • Declining dialysis quality of care
  • Diagnostic dyes can cause kidney function loss
  • Dialysis costs revealed
  • Dialysis in pictures
  • Dialysis nightmares
  • Dialysis patients need vitamin D injections
  • Dialysis patients: take your vitamin D
  • Dialysis-related sepsis risk lowered with statins
  • Dialyzing in the middle of Puget Sound
  • Dialyzing while high found to be beneficial
  • Doing it like a salamander
  • ESRD medications
  • Elbow-leading health advocates
  • Epoetin use increases by a factor of four in dialysis patients
  • FDA approves Aksys home dialysis system
  • Failing dialysis care in DC
  • Fighting with the needles
  • From kidney transplants to face transplants in 50 years
  • Get a kidney transplant, die of rabies
  • Getting back in line
  • Growing organs in vats
  • Growing organs in vats: One step closer
  • Health insurers see writing on wall, cave on pre-existing conditions
  • Healthcare and the profit motive redux
  • Healthcare and the profit motive: a moral issue
  • Hemoglobin variability predicts risk of death
  • Heparin contamination: motivated by greed
  • Hepatitis C screening
  • Hitting a rough patch
  • How I got my biker scar
  • I want that US$200 per month health insurance
  • If the thunder don't get you
  • Increasing organ donation by changing the definition of dead
  • Infection, sepsis, a family reunion, and far away good friends
  • Kidney cells from bone marrow stem cells
  • Kidney transplant and the mathematics of "net lifetime survival benefit"
  • Kidneys (for a fee) in a cooler
  • Like starting over
  • Medi-care, please
  • Medicare for all isn't enough
  • Medicare issues dialysis payment rule
  • Medicare modifies dialysis anemia monitoring policy
  • MedicineNet.com on dialysis
  • Medpedia publicly debuts
  • Minnesota healthcare mandate
  • Minnesota mandatory health insurance
  • Minnesota not ready for single-payer health coverage after all
  • Minnesota one step closer to single-payer health coverage
  • Morality and metrics in dialysis
  • Morals needed in healthcare crisis and reform
  • More insurance for insurers: ERISA's impact on working citizens
  • More on stem cell research
  • My whole world lies waiting behind door number three
  • NIH clinical trial for dialysis
  • National Kidney Foundation to assess epogen use
  • National Kidney Foundation's conflict of interest
  • Never trust a fart
  • New York Times on being a patient
  • New kidney transplant allocation proposal
  • Newt's second act: healthcare reform
  • No competion for ESRD anemia drugs
  • Not the best time to be an end-stage renal disease patient
  • Obama and the grafters
  • Obama telegraphs reversal on taxing health benefits
  • Obama's two-handed approach to healthcare reform
  • One more reason not to have a transplant
  • Organ waiting list is overstated by one third
  • Paired organ donation software launched at DEMO
  • Passing on a kidney transplant
  • Possible solution to embryonic stem cell moral issue
  • Preventable pneumonia
  • Proposed Medicare bill and dialysis payments
  • Pssst! Sell Kristof a clue?
  • Pushback on proposed Medicare bill
  • Reality TV kidney competition
  • Reason on the transplant question
  • Rethinking the economics of home hemodialysis
  • Reverse rope-a-dope healthcare reform passes US House
  • Rising kidney transplant failure rate
  • Routing around damage
  • Second ESRD anniversary
  • Shit, unfortunately, happens
  • Shock and awe: One American's view of health care
  • Single payer now
  • Study finds ESRD patients less likely to get cardiovascular medicine
  • Sudden cardiac death linked to dialysis
  • Super staph on the loose
  • Survey shows kidney patients concerned about Medicare
  • Technology holds key to altruistic kidney donation
  • The call that changed my life
  • The dark side of stem cells
  • The end-stage renal disease phosphorous dilemma
  • The most important cell
  • The possibility of regeneration
  • The public option was the healthcare reform compromise
  • The race to the bottom of the dialysis barrel
  • The remedy for American health care's pre-existing condition
  • The tyranny of the gift
  • The virtuous circle of enhanced Medicare for all
  • The wheel
  • US Congress favoring kidney transplants over dialysis
  • US$3.3 million study comparing home and in-center dialysis
  • Universal healthcare v. universal healthcare insurance
  • University faculty partaking of big pharma payola again
  • University of Alabama-Birmingham researchers faked renal data
  • Ways and Means committee hearing on end-stage renal disease patient safety and quality issues
  • Wearable artificial kidney
  • What the hell happened to Frontline?
  • Why I won't accept a kidney transplant
  • Wired package on Indian organ scandal
  • Worst July ever
  • You want stem cells? Harvard's got stem cells

• Intellectual property

  • Berman uses invalid data to call for stronger intellectual property laws
  • Between copyright and public domain: Creative Commons
  • CARP update
  • Celine Dion killed my iMac
  • Copyright blackmail
  • Copyright tipping
  • Creative Commons celebrates one-year anniversary
  • Creative Commons website goes live with technology overviews
  • Customary historic use
  • DMCRA finally gets a hearing
  • Digital Choice and Freedom Act
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
  • Digital copyright bill
  • Doc Searls on the metaphorical context of Eldred
  • E-Data wants to own electronic commerce
  • EFF and the doctrine of pre-emptive litigation
  • Eldred v. Ashcroft -- live and in person
  • Eldred v. Ashcroft oral argument transcript available
  • Entertainment industry should hack with impunity
  • Entertainment industry wants to make fair use illegal
  • Fair use and the DMCA
  • Freechasing and paying the bar tab
  • Freelancer copyright agreement overturned
  • Google and copyright infringement
  • Google is evil (and not just in China)
  • Grateful Dead pull archive
  • Here we go again
  • Huffington Post accused of copyright infringement
  • Internet too moral-free for News Corp. president
  • Jack Valenti and the Boston Strangler
  • Janis Ian on Internet music sharing
  • Jobs baits, RIAA spins
  • John Gilmore on protecting content
  • Lawrence Lessig -- Free culture
  • Lawrence Lessig on the end of innovation
  • Michael Eisner's financials and possible smokescreen
  • Microsoft's Palladium
  • Microsoft's Palladium is really a global money-flow tax
  • Napster reprise
  • National 4-H Technology Conference copyright presentation
  • Oddsmaker WUSTL on Eldred v. Ashcroft
  • On corporations owning copyrights
  • Openness and transparency indeed: The copyright cartel is at it again
  • Orrin Hatch wants to break your computer
  • RIAA feels its oats
  • Review: The Future of Ideas
  • Riffing on When elephants dance
  • SmartTags and the Microsoft problem revisited
  • Technology Consumer Bill of Rights
  • Ted Waitt's cow is more clueful than Fortune
  • The Hatching of the INDUCE Act
  • The Jeff and Larry show
  • The US entertainment cartel's copyright enforcement laundry list
  • The Zune vig
  • The coming copyright storm
  • The long arm of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  • The other CBDTPA shoe drops
  • The purpose of copyright
  • The tyranny of copyright
  • The war against customers
  • Too human to patent?
  • U.S. Supreme Court shocker for freelance writers
  • U.S. Supreme Court upholds Eldred
  • US$18 million Tasini Settlement
  • Understanding syndication and information authority
  • Universal Studios oversteps copyright law
  • Universities as copyright police
  • Weird enough yet, Doc?
  • When elephants dance
  • When elephants waltz

• Internet

  • ACM interview with Douglas Engelbart
  • Advanced hypertext on the web
  • Advancing hypertext
  • All your links are belong to us
  • Amy Wohl: Weblogs as KM in the enterprise
  • Bell Canada throws your packets away
  • Best email bounce message ever
  • Bill Moyers on network neutrality
  • Blackened eyes at Cisco and BusinessWeek
  • Bush signs "you can spam" act
  • Buying drinks so you can watch the strippers
  • Comcast reverses policy, pledges to treat all packets equally
  • Consumer Internet security
  • Consumer Reports wants to be the new TRUSTe
  • David Weinberger blogs TED conference
  • Defining information architecture components
  • Disrupting higher education
  • DoubleClick double gone
  • Electronic commerce on the net
  • FCC to enter network neutrality fray
  • FTC chain letter sting
  • Fun with spammers
  • Has Twitter jumped the shark?
  • Head Lemur on network neutrality
  • Hello Attensa
  • How Rageboy got his name
  • I thought the CSS wars were settled
  • IBM's FairUCE
  • Is spam killing email?
  • Jay Rosen on the ethic of the link; Kevin Marks on the value of unidirectionality
  • John Robb on desktop data silos
  • Launching TwinCitiesTwitter in three hours
  • Lawrence Lessig on dinosaurs taking over
  • Making spam safe in Minnesota
  • Microsoft Internet strategy
  • Microsoft mudslide
  • More fun with spammers
  • More on RCS
  • More on RSS for publishers
  • Municipal wireless may be coming to Saint Paul
  • NPR linking policy
  • Net neutrality amendment defeated in US Senate
  • Net neutrality and unintended consequences
  • Net neutrality isn't enough
  • Network neutrality = common carriage
  • Network neutrality is really quite simple
  • Network neutrality no longer enough
  • Nielsen on writing styles
  • O'Reilly network: Introduction to CSS layout
  • Of monopolies and Code Reds
  • Paul Otlet: information architecture forefather
  • Pew documents the spyware threat
  • Pew on blogging
  • Profit by 2000
  • Pud's back!
  • RAND removed from W3C policy
  • RSS will replace email as Internet publishing medium
  • Radio Community Server -- huh?
  • Radio and the New York Times
  • Radio community subversion
  • Review: HTML The Definitive Guide
  • Rosenfeld information architecture seminar
  • Round one loss on network neutrality
  • So long RSS
  • Sound salvation: UserLand Radio
  • Spam seal of approval
  • Steven Garrity on web design
  • Tables vs. CSS
  • That's it for Netscape
  • The case for dumb plumbing
  • The coming aggregation of higher education
  • The great US bandwidth scam
  • The information access warrior
  • The internet is falling and can't get up. Again.
  • The new WWW: web services, weblogs, and WiFi
  • The new politics starts with network neutrality
  • The next 6,500 days
  • The trouble with Twitter
  • The two-tiered internet
  • To Twitter or not to Twitter
  • Toward a sustainable net neutrality
  • Trying to figure out Twitter
  • TwinCitiesTwitter gets noticed by City Pages
  • Twitter's first crack at a business model
  • TypeKey: Passport with training wheels
  • Typekit: Typography for the web... finally... really?
  • US House rejects net neutrality bill
  • Uh, oh: The trouble with non-free software
  • Usability refresher
  • User experience tips from a software engineer
  • Vietnam and the net
  • Web development costs
  • Welcome Web 3.0, seriously
  • Well that was fun
  • What happens to spam?
  • World Wide Web history
  • Yikes: mega drop-down navigation actually works pretty well

• Law

  • Affidavit purported to outline RNC conspiracy plans
  • Another day, another signing statement
  • As much justice as you can buy
  • Bankruptcy off the rails
  • Bush's warrantless wiretaps whacked
  • Conservatives support federal shield law
  • Corporate free speech and citizen authority
  • Corporate political spending limits rejected
  • Democracy in Iraq?
  • District court judge strikes part of USA PATRIOT Act
  • EFF challenges FCC broadcast flag ruling
  • EFF history and overview
  • EFF petition
  • EPIC profiling data lawsuit
  • FBI incompetence garners broader monitoring
  • FISA revision bill passes US Senate
  • Get out the pitchforks
  • Harvard Internet law conference
  • Holding industry responsible for the actions of its customers
  • John Gilmore: "suspected terrorist"
  • June Brashares trial begins
  • Justice Sandra Day O'Connor nearly clobbered by Constitution
  • Legal fiction cubed
  • Life sentences for crackers
  • Magic Lantern shine your light on them
  • Merely a COG in Main Core
  • Microsoft proposed settlement approved
  • Minnesota to telemarketers: Bug off
  • Missed martial law and the end of democracy by that much
  • Patriot II: the sequel
  • Republican bill to allow warrantless wiretapping
  • Scandinavian guilt
  • State Secrets Privilege to be used against EFF
  • The Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004
  • The coming judicial appointment wars
  • The importance of habeas corpus
  • The kiddie porn judge
  • The online container problem
  • The political class and exemption from the rule of law
  • USA Patriot Act is renewed
  • Warrantless wiretapping legalization bill
  • Watching the detectives
  • What did he know and when did he know it?
  • White House Office of Administration immune from FOIA requests
  • World-class journalism in City Pages

• Media

  • 2001 p.u.-litzer prizes
  • 2007 TED Prize winners announced
  • A revanchist fantasy revealed
  • A tale of two papers
  • Abundance, scarcity, and the drawbridge syndrome
  • Adam Curry: The big lie
  • Advertising truth commission
  • Alton Kelley dead at 67
  • Amazon's long tail not so long
  • And the walls come tumbling down
  • Are you safer now?
  • As journalism goes, so goes democracy
  • Ashcroft and the stenographers
  • Asking the right questions
  • Berkeley investigative reporting fellowships
  • Big 'J' journalism payola
  • Bill O'Reilly exposed
  • Blogosphere ethics and business models
  • Boat rage in the land of 10,000 lakes
  • Bowling for Columbine opens tomorrow
  • Bush the propagandist
  • CARP and a silent Mayday
  • CNN gets it wrong on single-payer. Surprised?
  • Comcast pulls more "scarce" bandwidth out of ass; corporate media fawns
  • Comical Ali the television pundit
  • Convergence indeed: Picking cotton for Bill
  • Credibility ranking systems
  • Dan Gillmor to launch Center for Citizen Media
  • Deep Throat outs himself
  • Died too young
  • EMI and the end of DRM
  • Ethics tables turned
  • Find the cost of freedom
  • Forget newspapers; worry about the survival of journalism
  • Gillmor's new rules for journalism
  • Gridlock and radio wars up on the far edge
  • Handling the blogosphere with rubber gloves
  • Happy to see me, or is that a magazine in your pocket?
  • Has Boing Boing jumped the shark?
  • He lived like a warrior; died like one too
  • Healthcare reform and political terrorism
  • Heathens with cheap video cameras challenge the view from nowhere
  • I'm embarrassed to call you my colleague
  • Information authority
  • Information authority redux
  • Instant ubiquitous reporting changes everything
  • Is Bayosphere folding?
  • Is that a real CD or a Cactus CD?
  • It's like a ghost is writing a song like that
  • It's the content stupid
  • John Perry Barlow on nearly everything
  • Joichi Ito on micropublishing
  • Journalism 4.0
  • Journalism or evangelism?
  • Journalism the next
  • KPFA: The battle for community radio
  • Kerfuffle at Time
  • Kerouac meets Tufte
  • Kurt Vonnegut's In These Times opus
  • Liability insurance for independent media
  • Location matters for real estate, not publishing
  • Lying with graphics
  • Mainstream media whoops
  • Media consolidation by the numbers
  • Media food fight in the Twin Cities
  • Mental engineering
  • Microsoft switches off
  • Migrating to a paywall: an interactive case study
  • Minnesota weblog defamation case
  • Mitch Ratcliffe on weblog disclosure ethics
  • Murdoch unwalls the Journal
  • Music piracy not hurting recording industry after all
  • New York Times oil spill source tied to offshore drilling industry
  • New York Times on Tom Waits
  • New music? No thanks
  • News from the users' perspective
  • Nick Coleman, deconstructed
  • Noam Chomsky has a weblog
  • One medium under God
  • Online citizen journalism seen as threat
  • Open source journalism: Watching magazine sausage being made
  • Outing Bush's Ministry of Propaganda
  • Paging George Orwell
  • Paul Krassner on Chicago 10
  • Please, someone put AOL out of our misery now
  • Political pay-day for television broadcasters
  • Politics as usual in Miami
  • Pop... there goes the bubble
  • Price fixing cause of dropping audio CD sales
  • Progressives are getting a sense of humor
  • Project Censored 2005
  • Rathergate and the media's liberal bias
  • Rehearsal for the next year's Republican National Convention
  • Review: Bob Dylan at the Xcel Energy Center
  • Revisiting Tom Wolfe's New Journalism
  • Rocketbust
  • Rolling Stone, hot news, and a Taibbi takedown
  • Same event; different lenses
  • Sex and podcasting
  • Shaking and quaking at the Times
  • Shocking news: William J. Bennett is a gambler
  • Skewering Michael Wolff
  • Spinewatch will change political coverage
  • Stranger than fiction redux
  • Substance in Moore-Disney rasslin'?
  • TEDTalks debut
  • Texas flood in Minnesota
  • The Anti-Lessig Reader
  • The Michael Moore professional rasslin' show
  • The blogosphere gets the real story
  • The end of the music industry
  • The lost manuscripts: Commentary on Bush's memex
  • The lost manuscripts: Doug Engelbart: Augmenting the intellect
  • The lost manuscripts: Mac hypermedia introduction and overview
  • The lost manuscripts: Memex: Setting the stage
  • The lost manuscripts: Social implications of hypermedia
  • The lost manuscripts: Ted Nelson: Making it all work on the way to Xanadu
  • The right shows signs of a sense of humor
  • The sound of one journalist flapping
  • The unthinkable scenario
  • The wisdom of the news
  • This family needs manners
  • Time magazine censors itself
  • Transparency is binary
  • Twin Cities Daily Planet launches
  • Twin Cities pro-citizen journalism hybrid
  • Twitter-enhanced luminary spectacle, indeed
  • US recording industry determined to implode
  • USA Today retracts part of NSA phone surveillance story
  • Unfair, unbalanced, and wrong
  • Utne Tradewatch
  • Utne intern summarizes Cancun WTO ministerial
  • Wall Street Journal finds the bottom
  • War riddles: ten questions the media can't answer
  • Washington Post pay-for-access event for lobbyists
  • Washington Week: So far past its use-by date the mold has mold
  • Watermarks are for stationery
  • Welcome the national corporate media back to the game
  • What liberal bias?
  • When elections become commerce
  • Wired: Music so nice you may pay twice
  • You can't make this stuff up
  • You've been Dvorkined

• Politics

  • A country of narcoleptic amnesiacs
  • A helluva way to run a railroad
  • A new generation gap
  • A riddle wrapped in an enigma surrounding a gap
  • A right-wing report card on Minnesota public higher education
  • Accessible activism
  • Advocacy and regulation in the Bush administration
  • Al Franken body slams Dean heckler
  • An executive branch out of control
  • Ashcroft tells federal agencies to resist FOIA requests
  • Bad code in Washington
  • Berger is first Minnesota Green to qualify for public campaign financing
  • Brief history of the pledge of allegiance
  • Bush administration secrecy
  • Bush wants to tax health insurance benefits
  • CIA-backed secret police coming to Iraq
  • Cheney's basic fundamental principle
  • Choice: Social Security and the word no mirror can turn around
  • Congresspedia shows promise
  • Coon Rapids parade pictures
  • Dan Gillmor on cartel capitalism
  • Dean's questions for Bush
  • Deck chairs and bigger shovels
  • Democracy package announcement
  • Don't bring a spreadsheet to a gun fight
  • Double-plus for Obama on first full day
  • Ducks in a row
  • Election night with the master
  • Experiencing MacAuliffe
  • Feds investigate National Lawyers Guild activism
  • Feeling the boot heel of the Patriot Act
  • Fighting a multi-fronted (scandal) war
  • Fool me once...
  • Green party excluded from University of Minnesota debate
  • Hastert's wet dream: Cookie crumbs anyone?
  • Here comes the tax man
  • Here comes welfare for the super-rich
  • Hey Fritz! Over here, Fritz
  • Holding my nose once again
  • Howard Dean calls for business re-regulation
  • I love the smell of fascism in the morning
  • Incompetence or malfeasance?
  • International Women's Day march
  • Jim Hightower's new chautauqua
  • Joe Biden: Wrong on both the net and tech
  • John Ashcroft: calico cats are signs of the devil
  • Keeping faith with the faithless (part one of three)
  • Keeping faith with the faithless (part three of three)
  • Keeping faith with the faithless (part two of three)
  • Ken Pentel's aloha
  • Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress
  • License to lie: How Congress avoids embarrassment
  • Lies and the lying liars who told them
  • Lost votes
  • MN representatives have RSS feeds
  • Masters of war
  • McGaa -- smells like hostility from the get-go
  • Media frustration and Democratic denial
  • Michael Moore endorses Wesley Clark
  • Michael Moore on the O'Reilly Factor
  • Michael Moore: Dubya in the garden
  • Minneapolis StarTribune endorses Andrew Koebrick
  • Minneapolis StarTribune endorses instant runoff voting
  • Minnesota do-not-call list passes House committee
  • Minnesota nice
  • Minnesota political season begins
  • Minnesota telegate
  • Minnesota's loan-a-geek proposal
  • Motivating the banks the simple way
  • Mutiny in Iraq
  • No financial Patriot Act
  • No first strike: forgotten wisdom
  • No you can't
  • Norm Coleman's acceptance speech
  • Norwegian milk money
  • Obama administration media transparency? Don't count on it
  • Obama flip-flops on taxing health insurance benefits
  • Obama's claims of executive power worse than Bush's
  • Obama's lost year
  • Pentel interview on KMSP Good Day Minnesota
  • Planning for Armageddon
  • Politics are like trains
  • Privatizing Social Security will kill us and it
  • Progressive media: pro-Democrat and anti-Green?
  • Reading is fundamental
  • Repression and the new McCarthyism
  • Republican drugs
  • Republican staffers may have hacked Democrat computers
  • Republicans expose strategy against single-payer universal coverage healthcare
  • Revise and extend, right into the penalty box
  • Senator Paul Wellstone reported dead in plane crash
  • Shrub's credibility gap
  • Shrub's trifecta
  • Simmer down
  • Sky king
  • Smells like... politics as usual
  • So we finally got Saddam
  • Socialism almost comes to America
  • Stay home on caucus night
  • Stem cell traction
  • Step aside, we're coming through
  • Tasini's seven reasonable proposals
  • The Center for American Progress fact-check's Condi's ass
  • The Downing Street memo
  • The MoveOn primary
  • The Terminator and the Omaha Oracle
  • The anti-war disconnect
  • The art of misdirection
  • The bifurcated ethics of Donald Rumsfeld
  • The big stick: social insecurity in old age
  • The chicken and waffles president
  • The fist of five
  • The heart of America
  • The illusion of Howard Dean
  • The irrelevancy of local television news
  • The package v. the package deal
  • The poor are here; where are the republicrats
  • The power of images
  • The throat deepens....
  • The tide is turning
  • The tide is turning, part two
  • The turning of AARP
  • The unseen hand, outstreched and palm up
  • They're back....
  • Time to get a gun
  • Unelectable by Labor Day
  • Vietnam all over again
  • Voters' holiday
  • Wake up
  • We didn't elect your friends
  • We get what we deserve
  • We get what we deserve revisited
  • Weblogging on the campaign trail
  • What a difference a day makes
  • What doesn't the Bush administration want us to know about 9/11?
  • What's the frequency, Dick?
  • Why of course the people don't want war
  • Yes we can
  • Yesterday's traitors
  • You're late, you're late, for a very important date
  • You've been Roved

• Privacy

  • AT&T delivers for the NSA
  • Agent Smith goes to Washington
  • All your data belongs to AT&T
  • An amendment that doesn't distract
  • Anonymity in cyberspace
  • Bush administration accessing financial records
  • Bush moves to drop medical data privacy
  • Bush pushes for retroactive wiretapping authority
  • Bush secretly ordered spying on citizenry
  • Bush to expand domestic surveillance
  • CALEA deadline approaches
  • Carnivore may be de-fanged
  • Carnivore pukes; film at 11:00
  • Carpetbaggers and contradictions
  • Christopher Allen's four flavors of privacy
  • Comparing US and EU privacy
  • Congress caves on US wiretap law
  • Congressional analysis questions legality of warrantless wiretaps
  • Cookie-eating carpetbaggers (minus one)
  • Dan Gillmor's CFP 2002 assessment
  • Data privacy tensions
  • Datamining your travel records
  • Democrat majority to cave on civil liberties
  • Do-not-call list too successful
  • Does a non-disclosure agreement trump a privacy policy?
  • Domestic surveillance through national security letters
  • Don't be evil -- much
  • EFF lawsuit can proceed
  • EPIC prompts state attorneys general on Passport
  • EPIC sues over national identification cards
  • Echelon revisited
  • European Union considers telecommunications privacy changes
  • European Union weighs in on privacy
  • Even more domestic surveillance on the way
  • FBI drops national security letters in face of lawsuits
  • FBI illegally obtains US telephone call records
  • FBI's latest wiretap wish list
  • FISA Court to oversee domestic wiretapping
  • FTC proposes "do not call" registry
  • Federal judge rules warrantless wiretap program illegal
  • Free PCs: At what cost?
  • From COINTELPRO to FISA in a generation and a half
  • Government quietly drops demand for library records
  • Here come the warrantless wiretap lawsuits
  • Here we go again: VICTORY Act
  • Identifying computer users raises privacy concerns
  • Inspectors generals' report finds warrantless wiretapping ineffective
  • JUSTICE Act to reign-in USA PATRIOT Act
  • John Ashcroft's magical misery tour
  • Knowing how many turds were in the bowl before you flushed
  • Laptops can be searched at US border without cause
  • Last ditch plans to derail FISA bill in US Senate
  • Librarians resist informer role
  • MN Attorney General sues US Bank: Alleges sale of private customer information
  • McNealy sees a market for privacy after all
  • Medical data privacy rollback
  • Microsoft knows who you are and who you know
  • Microsoft's Passport
  • Minnesota privacy update
  • Minnesota telephone privacy heats up
  • More Internet privacy problems
  • More on Bush's criminal wiretaps
  • More on book tracking
  • More on the NSA phone call database
  • NSA even spookier than we thought
  • Nacchio alleges warrantless wiretapping program predates 9/11
  • National security letter report
  • Obama wants your email
  • On the privacy of Steve Jobs
  • Personal information -- who cares? Not big business
  • Personal privacy: We want it back, you get over it
  • Pioneer Press interview
  • Privacy Foundation's Bugnosis
  • Reading habits tracking overturned in Colorado
  • Risen and Lichtblau discover more NSA abuses of FISA
  • Roger Clark's CFP 2002 notes
  • Saint Paul passes USA PATRIOT Act resolution
  • Security theater
  • Shrub implements part of USA PATRIOT II
  • The curiosity seekers
  • The hydra sprouts another head
  • The infinite loop of the USA PATRIOT Act
  • There goes your privacy
  • Those gubmint meat-eaters
  • Top Justice Department officials may not have approved Bush's warrantless wiretaps
  • Top fraud complaint: identity theft
  • Total Information Awareness: Back from the dead
  • Tracking reading habits: websites and books
  • Tracking, profiling, and targeting for fun and profit
  • Two Patriot Act provisions struck down
  • U.S. Treasury survey on financial information sharing
  • U.S. surveillance shifts from criminals to terrorists
  • US Bank settles privacy lawsuit
  • US Justice Department subpoenas Google search data
  • US Senate Judiciary Committee chops wood, carries water for Obama
  • US agency datamining efforts
  • Warrantless wiretapping found to be illegal. Again.
  • Web bugs
  • What are we fighting for?
  • Who is comScore and what are they up to?
  • Who's in your calling circle?
  • Wiretapgate plot broadens (and deepens)
  • Wiretapping increases
  • Would you trust the death star with your privacy?
  • Yet another argument against corporate personhood
  • Your ISP as cop
  • Your papers please

• Publishing

  • API's Monetize the Web seminar
  • Any business model in a storm
  • Blogger catfight
  • Clay Shirky on the amateurization of publishing
  • Consolidation of strangers
  • Content is a pure public good
  • Content templates or page tables: Whatever you call them, use them
  • Corporate media online report card
  • Digg.com broadens its coverage
  • Dotcom Scoop interview with K5's Rusty Foster
  • Engineers should engineer not write (their own docs)
  • Financing content creation
  • Guardian interview with Robert Pirsig
  • HST: 1937 - 2005
  • How much does independent journalism cost?
  • Huffington Post enters online publishing business model derby
  • Information architecture moving forward
  • Information authority and ranking
  • Infotrash
  • Introducing the disclosure box
  • Leonard Riggio: A publisher's worst nightmare
  • Link rot
  • Megnut on usurping the design process
  • Merck and Elsevier publish fake medical journal
  • Michael Moore's adventures in publishing
  • Mike O'Connor's Safe Haven
  • Missing media serendipity
  • New York Times: Times Select II?
  • Newspaper strike brewing in Saint Paul
  • Newspaper trade group calls search engines kleptomaniacs
  • Oh good grief: Paywalls return
  • Pixelview interview
  • Pot, kettle, black
  • Power of nanopublishing
  • Publishers Group West and parent are bankrupt
  • Publishers: Avoid Apple's "curation" at all costs
  • RSS on verge of becoming illegal?
  • Radical transparency
  • Reconnecting
  • Safari Reader: So long web CPM ad model
  • Searching for online publishing business models
  • Steve MacLaughlin on taking the 'r' out of free
  • Steve Yelvington: looking both ways
  • Still seeking a publishing business model
  • Syndicating summaries or full content
  • The flip side of the comment question
  • The future of the book
  • The other shoe drops
  • The paywall and authority
  • The state of independent publishing -- 1999
  • The writethrough problem
  • Time right for magablogs?
  • Toward a self-supporting publication
  • Toward a sustainable independent publication
  • Tufte's Beautiful Evidence
  • Utne alumni party
  • Utne's media player
  • Washington Post's slide into irrelevance
  • Way new publishing
  • Way new publishing part two
  • What's to become of comments
  • What's wrong with book publishing
  • Who's responsible for high book prices
  • Why we blog
  • Winer's sub-text: A stumble in the right direction
  • Yet another online revenue model: read over their shoulders
  • amazon.com: Love for sale
  • comScore surveys the blogosphere

• Spirituality

  • Abandon Zambrano not Wrigley
  • Albert Hofmann turns 100
  • Bicycle basics
  • Compassion and the death of Timothy McVeigh
  • Flashback!
  • Holidays with family
  • Is Raj Patel Maitreya?
  • Nobody here gets out alive
  • Northsiders vs. southsiders
  • Oh Atlanta
  • Paradise
  • Real Joe
  • Remembering to remember
  • Review: American Gods
  • Senator Paul Wellstone 1944 - 2002
  • The problem with home vacations
  • The restorative power of place
  • Water worlds
  • What have you changed your mind about?

• Sustainability

  • "Twelve steps" to clean and green
  • A Labor Day rant
  • A step toward open source design
  • American cheese
  • Babies in poverty; capitalism off the rails
  • Buckminster Fuller Institute EARTHscope
  • Bush the Lesser cedes regulatory process to the regulated
  • Capitalism doesn't scale
  • Consuming our way to salvation
  • End hunger by taxing weapons sales
  • Fiscal responsibility for thee, not me
  • Free the market
  • Global warming and air pollution trends report
  • Golf carts on sticks
  • Here comes the sun
  • High electric bills? Talk to Dick
  • How many planets are needed to support your lifestyle?
  • Iconic architecture and public space
  • It's worse than yellow snow, George
  • Kill GM to save US industrial infrastructure
  • Limits to growth in food co-ops?
  • Linux sustainability
  • Northwest Airlines, the free market, and sustainability
  • Peak water: Done and gone in the US
  • Peer-to-peer air travel
  • ReVisioning conference notes
  • Shrub squashes electric car requirements
  • Shrub's next target: the Clean Air Act
  • Shrub's no-surprise betrayal
  • Solar ice
  • Supremes to hear global warming case
  • Surplus? What surplus?
  • SustainLane US city rankings
  • Sustainable strategies
  • The heat is on
  • The most important number on the planet: 350
  • The university tuition dilemma

• Technology

  • 100 million credit and debit accounts leaked
  • A tech executive who actually gets it
  • Adventures in computerland
  • Apple iPad? Wait for v2; it'll have wings
  • Apple says DVD burning okay only on its equipment
  • Apple's arrogance
  • Atom feed is broken
  • Back to the Mac
  • Breaking the early adopter barrier
  • Bruce Schneier on how to think about security
  • Buzzword bingo
  • Carleton University interviews Donald Norman
  • ClearType is killer technology
  • Davenet: When to give away the technology
  • Field recording for the new millennium
  • Gnomedex: Doc Searls
  • Gnomedex: Evan Williams
  • Gnomedex: Friday afternoon sessions
  • Gnomedex: Leo Laporte
  • Gnomedex: Phil Kaplan
  • Gnomedex: Saturday morning
  • Gnomedex: arrival
  • Gnomedex: blogroll
  • Gnomedex: leaving Iowa
  • Gnomedex: virus hoax comedy tour
  • Google's App Inventor = HyperCard 2010
  • Hello Mac, it's been a while
  • ISDN: saved by the net
  • Itanium 2 a flop?
  • Maybe there's something to Fon after all
  • McAfee wi-fi scan: good idea; poor implementation
  • Natural and unnatural cycles
  • Penises and bandwith
  • Pythagorus' golden section
  • Rethinking Apple's iPad
  • Review: Next the Future Just Happened
  • Security to be profit center at Microsoft
  • Small is good
  • Small signs of life in the computer industry
  • Sound nirvana
  • The future of software
  • The scariest man in technology
  • The tragedy of open source
  • The trouble with TiVo
  • They can't off-shore dog shit
  • Thinkertoys
  • TiVo gets into the act
  • Usability problems with the Airbus A320
  • What is it about Microsoft and security?
  • Windows Vista upgrade clean install workaround
  • iPad rapture passes me by

• User experience

  • Eye-tracking shows real-time search results ignored
  • Nielsen on usability progress
  • Toward a user experience strategy
  • What the youngs don't grok

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