General

Thank god.  CBDTPA / SSSCA Won’t Be Passed This Year, Say Leahy [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Absolutely amazing that this building withstood those pressures.  Leaked FEMA/ASCE Draft Report On WTC Collapse [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Pretty interesting.  Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server.  Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop.  They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server.  They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs.  Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their main weblog and their category specific weblogs).  The Intranet server also integrates data from their accounting system (this could be generalized to extend to any source of application specific data that is aggegated centrally via web services), hosts discussion groups, manages task lists, and serves as centralized document store.  Their Intranet is a portal to all the information, people, and feeds that are available.  Nice. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

RIP.  Britain’s Beloved ‘Queen Mum,’ a Symbol of Courage, Dies at 101. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the enduringly popular grande dame of the British royal family and the country’s most beloved symbol of courage during World War II, died in her sleep Saturday afternoon. By Sarah Lyall. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Very Interesting..  The Root of All E-Mail [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Everything happens in Boston.  Passenger arrested after making threat on plane [CNN]

Fascinating Glimpse at a horrible event.  Towers Withstood Impact, but Fell to Fire, Report Says. An unchecked 2,000 degree blaze which generated heat equivalent to the energy output of a nuclear power plant caused the fall of the Twin Towers. By James Glanz and Eric Lipton. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]