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Zeldman: Party like it’s 1997
"Party like it’s 1997: Microsoft has redesigned. Its new layout uses font tags and other deprecated junk straight out of the mid-1990s. - When a W3C member company that helped create XHTML and CSS ignores or misuses those web standards on its corporate site, you have to wonder who didn’t get the memo."

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse - Monitoring the Legal Climate for Internet Activity
"A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics. Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you. Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. The website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation."

The searchable database of Cease and Desist notices contains 190 C&D letters so far (including the infamous Godzilla tries to stomp Davezilla.com incident), each with a profound analysis linking legalese terms in the letters to FAQs that explain the allegations in plain English. Also see The DMCA vs. the First Amendment or The Carnegie Mellon Gallery of DMCA Abuses

Salon.com: Radio killed the radio star
In American radio, "consolidation has resulted in 10,000 layoffs, the demise of a beloved trade magazine, and a decline in programming quality. But industry execs are fat and happy. So I thought I would go and stick my nose in. Find out what tear gas smells like. I wanted to shake my fist at the people who ruined radio for the rest of us. The problem is, I'm not huge into confrontation. So instead, I got a press pass." An insider view of how radio consolidation helped kill off Gavin Magazine at salon.com. Via Scott Andrew.

Arundhati Roy: Wie man einen Krieg verkauft
"Jene, die in den letzten Wochen Kritik an der amerikanischen Regierung geübt haben, wurden des Antiamerikanismus bezichtigt. Dieser Begriff erhält gegenwärtig die Weihen einer Ideologie." Antiamerikanismus - eine amerikanische Ideologie? in den FAZ Kultur-Dokumenten

Ein offenes Geheimnis - Post und Telefonkontrolle in der DDR
"Geöffnete Briefe, belauschte Telefonate, aufgebrochene Pakete, die Verletzung des Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnisses durch das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit in der DDR (MfS) war ein offenes Geheimnis. Auf der Grundlage neuer Erkenntnisse beleuchtet diese Ausstellung die Post- und Telefonkontrolle, die in Zusammenarbeit der Deutschen Post der DDR durchgeführt wurde." Frankfurter Kommunikationsmuseum, bis 19. Januar 2003. Marianne Birthler: "Ein Schlüssel, das System der DDR zu verstehen" (Heise Newsticker Artikel)

PISA in den Medien: ein Trauerspiel
"Verhängnisvoll wirkt sich in den PISA-Reaktionen auch aus, dass wir nicht genug kompetente Bildungsjournalisten haben." PISA in den deutschen Medien - Kritik eines Empirikers, ein Brandbrief von Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Ingenkamp: "Nach elf Jahren Ruhestand lässt mich die Distanz zu den Zwängen der täglichen Forschungspraxis manches deutlicher erkennen. Und sie lässt mich die Reaktionen auf deutliche Kritik gelassener erwarten".

And finally in serious news
Orange-today: Man breaks record by clipping 153 clothes pegs to his face

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