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 \ \/ /   | |     / / | / / MONBIOT -- SCOPE -- RONJA -- BUSH -- OUTLOOK
  \  / /| | | /| / /  |/ / AMSCI  --  BIOS --  EURO --  SOLDER --  HATCH 
  / / ___ | |/ |/ / /|  / BONBON -- AEI -- FCC -- USA
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                        2003-07-02


###!!!!-###### BOOKS ###############################(RW)#################


George Monbiot's list of his top 10 political books:
    http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,984211,00.html
Some familiar, some less so.


###!!!!-###### BITSCOPE ############################(##)#################


Very cool open source hardware.  Digital oscilloscope to connect to a PC.
    http://racket.bitscope.net/
Schematics and docs can be downloaded and you can build it from scratch
yourself if you have the time, skill and inclination.  Alternatively, kits
can be purchased, or even completed and assembled units.  Nice recent
development is network interface, again with full details:
    http://racket.bitscope.net/net/?p=2
Good article on the whole thing here:
    http://www.circuitcellar.com/pastissues/articles/Jackson97/article.htm


###!!!!-###### RONJA ###############################(##)#################


Instructions to build a visible light optical link with 11Mbps capacity
over distances up to a mile:
    http://ronja.advel.cz/
Lots of open source hardware stuff:
    http://www.opencollector.org/
    Open Collector: dedicated to aging hippies (and, by special request, SF
    Freemen) everywhere...  Open Collector carries listings and news for
    free EDA software and circuit designs. Open Collector supports gEDA


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Footage, stills and commentary relating to Bush's behaviour after hearing
the news of the Sept. 11th attacks:
    http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/bush-911.htm


###!!---###### OUTLOOK #############################(##)#################


Friends don't let friends use Outlook
    http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/1552233


###!!---###### SCIENCE #############################(BB)#################


Society for Amateur Scientists
    http://www.sas.org/


###!!!--###### BIOS ################################(##)#################


LinuxBIOS FAQ:
    http://www.linuxbios.org/faq/index.html


###!!!--###### EURO ################################(##)#################


Dean Baker has an interesting comment to make on the decision by the UK
government not to enter the eurozone.
    One item that should have been included in this list is the housing
    bubble, which the IMF and many other experts believe that Britain is
    currently experiencing.
    The collapse of this bubble is likely to have an enormous impact on
    Britain's economy and will require an aggressive response from the
    central bank.
    http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8099
Since most other eurozone countries are not in this situation, they would
object to modifying economic policy just to fix the UK's house.
And in relation to the US property market...
    The article does later note that some economists are concerned about a
    collapse of housing prices, but then comments "most economists studying
    the issue are sanguine about such prospects." It is worth noting that
    in 1999 and 2000 most economists were also sanguine about the possible
    collapse of the stock market bubble.


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Beginners guide to soldering:
    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=OoO7DvTC%24GA.257%40cpmsnbbsa05&rnum=11&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsci%2Belectronics%2Bsoldering%2Bgun%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DOoO7DvTC%2524GA.257%2540cpmsnbbsa05%26rnum%3D11


###!!!--###### ORRIN HATCH #########################(IB)#################


Orrin Hatch is a US Senator who advocated allowing copyright holders to
(remotely) destroy computers of filetraders.  Turns out his own website
infringes copyrights by its use of a piece of menu-generating javascript:
    http://www.boycott-riaa.com/article/6899
    "Senator Hatch has opened Pandora's Box with these comments, but even
    worse he has shown America how little he really understands about the
    way computers work. And this is the man that presides of the Committee
    that has control over technology and copyright issues."


###!!!!-###### BONBON ##############################(DH)#################


6 year old girl microwaved a bonbon.  Fillings boiled while outside shell
remained cool.  When she bit it, it exploded:
    "The injuries were so serious we thought she needed new lips. The
    doctor had never seen such serious burns inside someone's mouth before.
    Helene had extensive burns in her mouth, on her face and on her hands",
    said Helene's mother.
    http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1706&item=272929


###!!!--###### AEI #################################(##)#################


Nader criticism of the American Enterprise Institute:
    What they are condemning, with vague, ironic regulatory nostrums
    proposed against dissenting citizen groups, is democracy itself. What
    the AEIstas prefer is plutocracy.
    http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8107


###!!---###### FCC #################################(##)#################


After 300,000 americans contacted their elected representatives, changes in
the regulation of media ownership have been reconsidered, giving support to
greater diversity:
    Ultimately, however, the committee's signal was clear. It was summed up
    well by North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan, who said, "The airwaves
    belong to the people. Broadcasters use them, under licenses that
    require localism and a diversity of voices." 
    http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=3809


###!!!--###### USA #################################(##)#################


Interesting comments on the most recent war in Iraq:
    [France, and Germany] did not oppose this war out of the goodness
    of their hearts ... Part of the reason for the
    opposition is that Europe and the United States are on rough par
    economically, but the U.S. has virtually all the global political
    power.  This is an unsustainable state of affairs without constant new
    American conquests, increasing attempts to keep Europe down, and more
    and more deliberate state intervention to privilege U.S. corporations
    over European ones. 
    http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/May2003/albert0503.html


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