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So you've seen The Gates in NYC. But have you seen The Somerville Gates by the Anti-Christo?

Subversive technology alert! From: MIT Tech. Review: Subscription Music's Curious Silence:

"Call it the soft underbelly of the subscription music business model, something none of the major players seems to want to talk about: It's very easy to turn stream-only services into download plans without changing a thing.

Replay Music, which retails for $50, will even append song, artist, and album information to the file in the background, with about a 90 percent accuracy rate.

None of the the major streaming services -- Napster, Yahoo?s MusicMatch, RealNetwork's Rhapsody, or digital music distributor MusicNet -- would talk on the record about their company's position on the various programs."

hope springs eternal
will Habeas SWE
save email from spam?

Amnesty International USA: Urge Nepalese Officials to Reveal Whereabouts of Human Rights Defender Krishna Pahadi

Mandatory RFID tags for 7th and 8th graders. Just be grateful they're not ear tags or injectable VeriChips.
See also:

• EFF article: RFID use in schools
• AP article: "Parents Protest Student Computer ID Tags"

Contact info:
Brittan Elementary School
2340 Pepper Street
Sutter, CA 95982
(530) 822-5155
Fax(530)822-5143
http://www.brittan.k12.ca.us/
Earnest "Big Brother" Graham, Principal/Superintendent: EarnieG@brittan.k12.ca.us

This Ethics and Blogging Survey makes me think that weblogs are making Singapore's control-minded officials and their minions at the Singapore Internet Research Centre a bit nervous.

Tired: gangsta rap; Wired: geeksta rap