Wired News has the latest on DARPA's proposed spy machine:

It's a memory aid! A robotic assistant! An epidemic detector! An all-seeing, ultra-intrusive spying program! The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, index all the information and make it searchable.

Wired also reports on the scary phenomenon of Political Control Technology :

The same technological revolution that is now accelerating the development of new medical products is also making it possible for coercive regimes to manipulate human beings by altering their psychological processes, controlling their behavior, interfering with reproduction or tampering with inheritance-- and even to do so without the knowledge of the victims. The International Red Cross, not usually alarmist, has taken the unusual step of issuing an urgent appeal to prevent the use of this technology as a weapon through hostile manipulation of fundamental life processes...."

Mad Kane is celebrating the two Bush appointee resignations with song: Christie Whitman Went To Town (to be sung to Yankee Doodle) and Ari, Ari (to be sung to Monday, Monday). The Christian Science Monitor has this analysis of the Bush team shuffle.

Mary, subbing for Lisa English of Ruminate This has the latest on the FCC media deregulation protests from MoveOn....the grass roots campaign is having an effect. Lisa has an eye problem, we wish for her speedy recovery.

Howard Bashman of How Appealing has a wrap-up of coverage on the Yale Law School bombing and a link to this article on leaks by law enforcement.

To be continued....