Scan yourself to see if you are infected with any of a number of potent memetic viruses.

Plep blinks to Raven’s Bread: A Newsletter for Hermits, tweaking my curiosity: does a web-connected hermit feel any less in line with her/his intention to live at a remove from others?

Coming One Day Near You — a Mega-Tsunami: “One day, a giant wave traveling at 125 mph across open water could crash into Sydney harbor, wipe out the beaches of California or plough across the golf courses of northeast Scotland.

Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater frequency than modern science would like to believe, and no coastline in the world is safe, says Canadian geologist-geographer Edward Bryant.” Yahoo!

Report: Cheney security plan lost; Secret Service agents souvenir shopping left it in a skateboard shop. The store owner called to alert the Secret Service but no one came to pick it up as promised, so he called again and offered to take it to them, requesting an autographed pic of the vice president for his trouble. They refused, so he gave the document to the press. USA Today [I’m indebted to Ray for pointing me to this bauble of the day!]

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: “A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University of San Francisco law school clinics.

Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.

These pages will help you understand the protections intellectual property laws and the First Amendment give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we’ve noticed that not everyone feels the same. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence online users. Certainly intellectual property rights should be respected — and we hope this site will aid you in doing so — but they shouldn’t be misused to impede legitimate activity…”

The Libertarian Party’s powerful anti-WoD* ad is a rejoinder to the disgusting ads the US aired during the Superbowl drawing the equation between teenage drug use and World Trade Center deaths. (.pdf download, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) David Farber, on his IP mailing list, has an amusing anecdote about the Libertarians contacting him for a photo of ‘drug czar’ John Walters for the ad, as the White House had refused to provide them with a publicity shot.
*War-on-Drugs

“How’s Your News? is a documentary film which features a team of five news reporters with mental and physical disabilities. We all met at a summer camp in Massachusetts. To make How’s Your News? we drove across America in a hand-painted RV, interviewing the people we met along the way.” The link is to the project’s homepage and includes a FAQ (e.g. “Is this project exploitation?”). Here’s a Village Voice review from October 2001.