Day August 27, 2008

UK wants to monitor all phone calls, email, web usage

Image by Chris Weston, British comic strip artist. (Click to view full-sized on his site.) What’s worse, the British government wants to make the monitoring data available to “security and law enforcement agencies, local councils, and ‘other public bodies’”. Imagine…

Mark Warner at DNC

“Just think about this: In four month, we’ll have an administration that actually believes in science.” Wired notes that Warner’s comment ignited a happy explosion of messages at geek-heavy Twitter.