ImperialViolet

• A younger Ashcroft on government spying. This had been doing the blog rounds recently, it's still pretty wonderful.
• Andrew McCrae shoots a policeman at a petrol station at night and then posts a confession/rant on indymedia about it. He was pretty quickly arrested. Also see TheReg article.
• US Patent on "Indexing system using one-way hash for document service".

Zooko wrote me a email about the merits and demerits of Altas Shrugged and I decided to try and read it. I can't help but wonder if the loan length is ment to tell me something. A different book I got out today has to be back by 5/12, but Atlas Shrugged is due back 29/4/03