Heh. He said Ass.
The 25th Amendment requires that Presidential power be transferred to the Vice-President in the event that the President is incapacitated. The one previous invocation of the 25th Amendment, also ass-related, occurred when Ronald Reagan had colon surgery. [Flutterby!] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Ugh, mornings…
Ugh, I feel the upgrade pain already.
Perl 5.8.0 is out!. Woohoo! Here’s the official announcement. Hopefully this will make life easier for those who must deal with character encodings in… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]
What? No Loss Prevention Folks?
The Great Starbucks Hoax. The coffee king takes a bath on bogus Internet coupons. [The Motley Fool]
This is a pretty interesting case. I have alot of admiration for John Gilmore for challenging things that sometimes I don’t even perceive as wrong. I wish John luck in this case….
Gilmore challenges US requiring “Your Papers Please”. Today, John Gilmore, co-founder of the EFF, is challenging the government’s un-written rule that airline passengers must show ID before they are allowed to board. Likened to Germans demanding “Your Papers Please”, we can all understand why requiring identification serves merely as a control and tracking tactic, and provides no real anti-terrorism benefit. Read the full legal filing [kuro5hin.org]
Let’s hope his ratings suck.
Phil Donahue’s liberal oasis. The talk show pioneer’s new MSNBC show brings a little decency and tolerance into the rabidly right-wing jungle of cable TV. [Salon.com]
This is cool. I remember Eve Maler telling me all about XML about two years ago and I didn’t get it. How stupid I was.. there is some seriously fascinating XML stuff going on.
US House of Representatives and XML.
The US House of Representatives has made a significant effort in developing DTDs for describing bills. My authority as Utah CIO doesn’t extend to the Utah Legislature (you can tell from their URL), but I’d still love to see them adopt something like the House standards. They might be able to just use the House DTDs directly. A recent article in Government Computer News writes about the House XML efforts. [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]