Day October 28, 2002

In Florida, phone calls telling people to vote on Nov 10th!. They made the mistake of calling the head of McBride’s campaign: MIAMIThe chairman of the state Democratic Party asked U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Saturday to launch an…

US Diplomat Is Killed by Gunman in Jordan. A veteran US diplomat was killed this morning in the driveway of his Amman home as he walked from the front door to a carport, shot at least seven times by a…

Freenet keeps file-trading flame burning A new version of the Freenet software, a program based around wholly anonymous Net publishing and distribution, is due out Monday after long silence from its mostly volunteer developer community. <And anonymous means just that,…

San Francisco After a weekend in SF, I see why people love it. Usable public transporation. Subways, buses, and trolleys can get you anywhere in the city, and they run frequently (unlike here in LA). Real neighborhoods with real neighborhood stores. No…

Weblogs as a useful police tool The Boston Globe:  This is amazing.  Billions are being poured into the FBI and other governmental organizations and they can’t even get the basics right. The FBI in Washington state interviewed a witness last…