Blogger Iain Murray has been fired. His blog, The Edge of England’s Sword has been cited as the reason for his termination. Rather than link to the specific post, I’ll link to his site and give you an opportunity to scroll through.
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US Copyrights
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can repeatedly extend copyright [...]

Wow. I missed this one. I have never seen Bill Luse of Apologia so angry.
The title character in Townshend’s rock opera “Tommy” - a deaf, dumb and blind pinball wizard - is sexually abused by an uncle.

Yeah it’s somebody else’s fault. Sounds like my generation. What Pete failed to do was to look into the [...]

I have it on relatively good authority that the big cat story The Gospel According to Mark linked to just might be true. According to my ’source,’ police in Wales are taking this one seriously. So, I have to ask my barbarian northern ’source’, does it look anything like this? I have to [...]

Effective listeners remember that “words have no meaning - people have meaning.” The assignment of meaning to a term is an internal process; meaning comes from inside us. And although our experiences, knowledge and attitudes differ, we often misinterpret each other’s messages while under the illusion that a common understanding has been achieved. — Larry [...]

A grass roots demonstration will take place today outside the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Organized by Canadians Against Antisemitism the protest is aimed at the past five years of coverage from the Middle East from veteran CBC correspondent Neil MacDonald.
Sandra Stern, the group’s chairwoman, believes Mr. MacDonald’s coverage is biased, criticism that comes on the heels [...]

As the Internet matures, governments, corporations, universities and service providers are erecting fences, some by design, others often unintentionally.
Stop signs, detours, road closings and guarded gateways to exclusive communities went up in 2002 as never before.

As more and more filtering continues, there won’t be much fuss, because we are often unaware it is taking place [...]

The RIAA site got hacked for the fourth time in recent months. Some readers grabbed some screen shots in this article.
Meantime a California judge has ruled that Kazaa, an Australian peer-to-peer can be sued in the US.
AOL-Time Warner
Buzz Machine has some words about Steve Case’s resignation from AOL.
Tough year ahead for computer users
Over at Lockergnome [...]

Quantum Tea has a great peice on left handed people being forced to be right handed. If you are a left handed person, by all means head over and leave a comment. Right handed people are welcome to put their two cents worth in also.
::journal ties in singing and shouting at cricket matches with New [...]