From Boing Boing Why John Gilmore won’t show his ID at airports. Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette has an amazing, balanced, in-depth profile on John Gilmore, the guy who Sun hired to write their first code, the guy who co-founded EFF, the guy who…

From Dave Winer, who played a major role in the invention of blogs, rss feeds, and now, podcasting. Thanks to Halley for the kind words about my contribution to podcasting, as well as Adam’s. This gives me a chance to…

The ashes of the 2004 election battle have finally settled, and sadly the Green Party is buried in the rubble still grasping for air. The Greens could, and should have been vociferously opposing the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. But…

Thompson shot self while on phone with wife Although journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s wife wasn’t home at the time of his suicide, she heard him take his own life over the phone. “I was on the phone with him, he…

Here in the San Fernando Valley, we are having a surprise hail storm, complete with thunder and lightning (rare for L.A.) Last night, on the Westside of L.A., where multiple closures on Pacific Coast Highway plus many canyon road closures have forced…

The Canadian government has rejected US orders that it comply with the incredibly dangerous and wrongheaded waste of resources euphemistically called the “missile defense shield“ Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S. missile…

In the US, the Anglican Church, the Church of England, is known as the Episcopalian Church.. Anglican primates agreed Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global…