Politics

Neo-conservatives Lame site disign, but legit information. Go here if you want to see the PNAC’s page. Lot of people with their names on it: Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, etc.

New tax law omits child credit for low income families.

US moving base to Iraq from Saudi Arabia

Bush’s resume

FCC going to allow clear channel type ownership of TV

Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act a farce

Coalition ‘tortured Iraqi POWs’ And they took pictures I guess.

Darpa crazies

This is seriously disturbing. Wired has the scoop.

What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why would the Defense Department want to do such a thing?

The embryonic LifeLog program would dump everything an individual does into a giant database: every e-mail sent or received, every picture taken, every Web page surfed, every phone call made, every TV show watched, every magazine read.

All of this — and more — would combine with information gleaned from a variety of sources: a GPS transmitter to keep tabs on where that person went, audio-visual sensors to capture what he or she sees or says, and biomedical monitors to keep track of the individual’s health.

This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to “trace the ‘threads’ of an individual’s life,” to see exactly how a relationship or events developed, according to a briefing from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, LifeLog’s sponsor.

Wine fest

We went up to San Louis and were in Pasa Robles Saturday for the wine fest. Wine was good, weather was amazing, and the local produce was amazing. I really need to start doing more farmers market shopping.

I will stay clear of local/nonbank ATMs

Interesting: Iraq May Break With OPEC. This would lead to a flood of cheap oil on the market, something the US would love. Personally, I wish gas prices were higher to encourage alternatives. It does not make sense to design our lives around cars.