CNN never stops delivering the most fantastic news. The latest is that the VA Secretary Nicholson seems to have no idea that data on a hard-drive can be copied.
“There is reason to be optimistic,” he told reporters just before the start of another in a series of hearings Congress has had on one of the [...]

Or so says this article. Good and bad news at the end of the article, as well:
The panel also approved a permanent ban on taxing Internet access and handily rejected an amendment to encourage cable providers to offer consumers the ability to pay only for the cable television channels they want, known [...]

Dobson wrote an editorial for CNN. It’s all the typical homophobic rhetoric, lots of appeals to think of the children and blatant fabrications of anti-amendment motives, as well as some outright name-calling. But this snippet really made me chuckle:
If the battle to protect marriage takes even five more years, liberal judges and activists will have [...]

Monica and I saw Sonic Youth on Friday night. She wrote an interesting piece about them.

I saw a Gamasutra article this morning entitled Subcommittee Hearing on Video Game Content Announced, here’s a snippet:
The hearing is expected to hear testimony from a number of key individuals involved with the debate, including Lydia Parnes, director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Gary Severson, senior vice president, merchandising, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; and [...]

The second part of Eurogamer’s interview with various characters from Valve is available. A snippet from that interview:

Eurogamer: As good as Half-Life 2 was, it’s not really a game that ever rewards the player for exploration. There were times when you could go off the beaten track and look at some deserted building - especially [...]

Stephen Colbert gives a commencement speech at Knox College.
But thankfully Congress is acting and soon English will be the official language of America. Because if we surrender the national anthem to Spanish, the next thing you know, they’ll be translating the Bible. God wrote it in English for a reason! So it could be taught [...]

I mentioned earlier that I am taking an online course to finish my degree. I needed four credits in order to graduate, so I thought to myself, “Why don’t I just take a 5-credit course over the summer and get it done with.” What I didn’t know was that while one can take summer-school courses [...]

Found on Bruce Sterling’s blog: Digital Maoism
I completely agree with Jaron that terms like
“collective intelligence” and “hive mind” have the
distressing new-agey tang of “Artificial Intelligence.”
I’m not sure I can agree that “the hive-mind is stupid
and boring.” I’m thinking that might be better phrased
as “the hive-mind is stupid, and it bores Jaron Lanier.”
Because it might [...]