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I cannot say it any better than it was said in today’s issue of EFFector: The US State Department is pushing for what may be the most misguided and dangerous travel “security” plan ever proposed: putting insecure radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in all new US passports. These chips would broadcast your name, date of birth, […] » about 500 words

These things take time and can often be hard to read, so while we all wanted the high court to look at the entertainment industry lawyers and tell them to take a hike Tuesday, we’ll have to wait until summer to know what actually went down. But there is one interesting thing so far… It […] » about 300 words

Blueskygirl alerted me to the Life Of A Kitchen group at Flickr in a comment on a photo of my remodeled kitchen. So, of course I joined and had to upload a pile of related pictures from my back-file. There’s some great stuff from a bunch of contributors up there, despite the trash I tossed […] » about 100 words

A PowerPage story alerted me to a couple of inexpensive touch-screen LCDs: Innovatek and Lilliput. Take this as an update to my story on carputers. That story, of course, connects with mobile carrier networking (with followup), and GPS. » about 100 words

It was done in quite a rush and there’s some touchup to do yet, but our kitchen is now more complete than it’s been in six years. » about 100 words

I just re-discovered my notes from Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ October Conference for 2004 and found a number of things I wish I’d remembered earlier. Academic libraries are facing declining use/circulation of traditional materials (books, print periodicals, fiche, etc). It’s not that students and faculty don’t care about libraries or learning, the problem is that libraries […] » about 400 words

Texas executes a lot of people. During the years 1995 through 2000, Texas executed 152 inmates, making then governor Georg W. Bush the killingest governor in history. A March 1998 Amnesty International report titled The Death Penalty in Texas: Lethal Injustice notes that “public support for the death penalty in Texas remains strong,” and a […] » about 900 words

Corey chops ice from my walkway on Sunday afternoon. Dinner went well, despite worries that our new kitchen wouldn’t be completed in time. I guess I’m a huge fan of pictures with particle action. Here’s another, where Will cuts it up with a circular saw. » about 100 words

There are at least two ways to appreciate Easter: To some it’s the most important religious event of the year, while, to others — your hosts here at MaisonBisson, for instance — it’s yet another good reason to gather friends and family ’round a table and celebrate good food, good wine, and all that makes […] » about 200 words

Well, actually it was A9, but the results are just as scary. There’s a fellow named Gerald Dewight Casey on deathrow in Texas and an Asian language site has a picture of the Bisson Battlesuit. » about 100 words

I’m in Hooksett today waiting for the my kitchen cabinets to be delivered. Why Hooksett? Because Ikea won’t deliver to Warren and I’ve got in-laws in Hooksett where Ikea will deliver. I’ve just setup my old router and wireless base station here, so at least I don’t have to slum it without network. And that’s […] » about 200 words

I’m not sure I could say it any better than David Rothman did when he went off topic over at TeleRead to make note of some important issues related to the Terri Schiavo matter. Rothman points at the bigger issue, but doesn’t come out and say it: all life concludes with death; indeed, the leading […] » about 300 words

Via Copyfight via Deep Links: Fiona Apple, that Grammy award winning gal you remember from the Criminal video, apparently put together a third album a couple years back only to have Sony music shelve the thing. Now that it’s gotten out, her fans are “demanding that Sony release the album so they can pay for […] » about 300 words

I’ve failed to live up to my potential this week. I’ve wasted a lot of time on stories about useless video cameras, home theater, whining about my kitchen remodeling, and lamenting some lost stories when I should have been paying attention to SXSW, ETech, copyright issues, and Sunshine Week. Please accept my Johnny-come-lately mea culpa […] » about 300 words

Joe, Tami, Sandee, and John throwing weights on the shuffleboard table Friday night. Extra: shufflboard rules at MastersGames, suffleboard rules at shuffleboard.co.uk. Shuffleboard tables and tabletop shuffleboard accessories can also be found online. » about 100 words

Just as I was about to cut the Future Tense blog (from the Public Radio show of the same name) from my list, Jon Gordon steps up with a few good stories. Of course, he had good material to start with. He’d been at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and it looks like it was […] » about 300 words

A couple stories in the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s email newsletter need our attention and support. Well, they all do, but here’s the most important: Grokster: EFF this week kicked off a new campaign to celebrate the technological diversity protected by the Supreme Court’s 1984 “Betamax ruling,” which found that vendors cannot be held liable for […] » about 300 words

I discovered recently that my content database is missing a bunch of stories from the first weeks of 2005. I tempered my feelings of loss with the knowledge that I couldn’t remember the title of more than one of the 21 missing stories. While looking into a question about my out-of-date RSS feed today, I […] » about 900 words

This fiddling with video has me looking for small cheap video cameras. 123 Security Products has some, but Pine Computer has them cheaper. Better yet, they’ve got a 203CA sub-mini video camera with interchangable lenses for $25. The standard 4mm lens has only a 78 degree view angle, but an available (+ $15) 2.5mm lens […] » about 100 words

There are bigger problems in the world than my home theater, but that’s not what this entry is about. I’ll get back to political ranting in a while, but for now — now that I have » about 700 words

It turns out that the Quicken website is full of legal tips and advice. What caught my eye was a description of implied warranties. Implied warranties don’t come from anything a seller says or does. They arise automatically when a product is sold. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, there are two kinds of implied warranties: […] » about 400 words

It’s all part of the plan, but this is a bigger mix effort and uncertainty than expected. I’d hoped to have everything cleared from the kitchen by mid-day, but I’ve got another cabinet to remove Sunday. The uncertainty? We don’t yet have the new cabinets in hand. If those are delayed, we could be without […] » about 200 words

Engadget‘s got a story about SSI Shredding Systems and their action videos of their equipment doing the job on refrigerators, medical waste, steel drums, couches, concrete, boats…. Engadget reccomends the washing machine video “for its rather endearing inclusion of one of the bystanders’ enthusiastic cries of ‘Shred it!'” » about 100 words