Meanwhile, some scary international legislation looms on the horizon: New World Order, Copyright Style.
James Love from the Consumer
Project on Technology has written a great paper on this subject:
What you should know about The Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Proposed Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters.
Brave story about one of the martyrs of Flight 93: Salon.com News | Passenger hero talks to wife before crash.
Great Flash animation of the plane routes leading up to crashing into the
World Trade Center: Oleada de atentados en EEUU. (Click on the numbers along the top edge of the frame to move through the slides.)
The FAA has announced new security measures. (Thanks Cory)
Open Source advocate Eric Raymond had more than a little to say about what happened Tuesday. OpenP2P.com Managing Editor Richard Koman had more than a little to say in response.
The L.A. Times has posted quite an interesting story by William C. Rempel and Richard A. Serrano about what may be some pivotal developments in the situation, but no one else seems to be reporting it. Weird. (Later this morning a story popped up on the BBC.
Still, the story was far more facinating than anything I’m watching on tv this morning 🙂
On a sadder note, the hate crimes are already starting up all over the country. Damn. (Thanks Cory)
Here’s cool Wired News story by Leander Kahney citing some cools sites for information about yesterday’s events: Who Said the Web Fell Apart?. (Boing Boing is mentioned.)
This NY Times article by Amy Harmon makes some interesting observations about the web’s role in helping communities connect yesterday: Web Offers Both News and Comfort.
Here’s a thoughtful editorial from Dan Gillmor’s eJournal.
What we have here is a situation. I don’t like calling it an act of war because that implies that there is a country somewhere that we can retaliate against. And that might not be the case.
We don’t know that this isn’t some outside party that no one has heard of yet. Maybe whoever is behind this has made their point and isn’t necessarily going to harm us any more, now that they’ve got our attention.
I am not condoning these acts of violence in any way, but I must admit that this experience has got me thinking about what it’s like to go about your daily activities when you no longer feel “safe” anymore. It’s hard to imagine going on like this for days much less years.
So I ask you a favor America: stay level headed. As the facts of the situation unfold, let’s not jump to any conclusions that could lead to punishing other innocents in an act of blind revenge. That would be an even greater tragedy.
For now the one way you can have a direct effect on saving the lives of human beings is to give blood. We’re going to need to step up our blood supply in order to have enough to assist the victims in New York and Washington DC and replenish our reserves.
The Red Cross website seems a bit overloaded, so I recommend using the telephone or phone book to locate your local donation center.