Kazaa most downloaded program ever

“2.5 million downloads last week.

A free computer program used for file-sharing, Kazaa ,has now been downloaded more than 230 million times, placing it ahead of instant messaging program ICQ in the list of all time downloads. According to a software download site it was downloaded more than 2.5 million times in the last week, while ICQ was downloaded 330,000 times.
File-sharing program is ‘most downloaded ever’ “

However, Kazaa is filled with spyware and other such nasties, so I advise not using it.

“Terms of service have long been a source of controversy, especially when they involve consumer privacy. But the issue was raised to alarming levels this month when consumers using the Kazaa program learned that they had unwittingly agreed to install software that could help turn their computers into nodes for a peer-to-peer network controlled by another company.”

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2004 Presidential race

Some candidates and possible candidates I’m watching.

Greens

Ralph Nader
Has expressed interest in running, and thus is the presumptive front-runner. Whether this is a good idea, I don’t know. He’s already run twice, and some may, fairly or not, consider him damaged goods after the 2000 election.
Draft Nader 2004

Cynthia McKinney 
McKinney was a member of the House from Georgia until her outspoken views on Bush and Israel got her un-elected. I’ve heard conflicting stories about whether she’s interested in running as a Green. A black woman Presidential candidate would certainly grab attention, though she’d unquestionably be viciously attacked by Republicans and the mini-me Democrats.  
Cynthia McKinney 2004

Democrats

Howard Dean
Ex-governor of Vermont. The only Democratic candidate who has seriously attacked Bush. The craven, powerful Democratic Leadership Council is already attacking him, which automatically makes me like him more. His campaign slogan is “Take back our country”!

He’s heads and shoulders above the rest of the front runners, in my opinion.
Official site
Weblog

Dennis Kucinich
A genuine progressive. Reputed to be advised by deeply New Age people, something which, depending on your views, you may find either appalling or fascinating. He’s vegan, wants a Department of Peace. After announcing his candidacy he immediately went pro-Choice after years being pro-Life, a move that left many wondering about him.
Kucinich 2004

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Bush’s poodle facing revolt

Gosh, it appears there are no MWD’s in Iraq. And there probably never were any. I am SO suprised.

The British parliament has an actual spine, and is now confronting Blair about his rush to war - and they are confronting him hard. May Blair fall from power. May some of our Senators grow a spine too - and then confront Bush about his by-now-obvious lies about Iraqi MWD’s.

“Tony Blair’s post-war tour of Iraq today ran into trouble before he had even set foot in the country when Robin Cook served notice that the prime minister faces a growing crisis over the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction.

Seizing on the “breathtaking” admission by Donald Rumsfeld that Saddam Hussein may have destroyed his weapons, the former foreign secretary issued a blunt warning to the prime minister that he took Britain to war on a false basis.

Saying that they can’t find the weapons, and they may never find the weapons, blows an enormous gaping hole through the case for war that was made on both sides of the Atlantic,” Mr Cook told Channel 4 News last night. “That has to be investigated - a [Commons] select committee is one way of pursuing it.”

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