Here’s another Wired News report: Trade Center Gone; Pentagon Hit.

Bad day for the USA. Here’s an article from Wired (Apocalypse in New York City).

I’ll be trying to find out what I can and posting links here.

Here’s an informative article by Jack Mason for MIT’s Technology Review – Reactive Glass.

According to the article: Sol-gel has many of the properties of glass, except that it is 20% water by weight and “honeycombed with microscopic pores that can absorb biomolecules such as protiens or enzymes and release them in response to environmental stimuli.”

Here’s a brief Introduction to Sol-gel from Bell-Labs.

Here’s a facinating book about drug law reform from Judge James P. Gray: “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It: A
Judicial Indictment Of Our War On Drugs” (2001).

Judge Gray has been in the press a lot recently too. Here’s an L.A. Times article and another one from the NY Times.

I got my first nigerian scam letter. I’m told these things are quite common and I found a good article,

I crave your distinguished indulgence (and all your cash),
by Douglas Cruickshank (Salon), and a
US Secret Service website on the subject. (Thanks Cory)

This is a great essay:
Science Fiction, Copyright, Natural Law, and You, by Science Fiction Writer and OpenCola founder Cory Doctorow, that brings up a lot of issues surrounding copyright that most writers have probably been trying not to think about.

Bottom Line: Digital Rights Management doesn’t work, and that means once a digital copy of something exists, it’s “out there”, and it’s going to be replicated. And any encryption protections are ultimately compromised. What does all this really mean and what can really be done about it? Cory attempts to get a discussion going by helping us read the writing on the wall.

NewsForge | Princeton professor tells all

Here’s a very progressive take on how the patents of the future are going to have to operate: Dutch Open Source Society, Industry Group Offer Software Patent Compromise
, by Brenno J.S.A.A.F. de Winter (brenno@dewinter.com)
(22-August-2001)

I just posted a new O’Reilly Network Weblog (CD-Rs Target of RIAA Press Release) about a recent RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) press release that blames CD recordables (CD-Rs) for a decrease in last year’s record sales.

The guy who created this latest Rantaholic: The Oral Report (Cory Tennis) starts off just kind of sounding like a jerk and ends up bringing up a lot of great points about homelessness in American Society.