Apropos of my recent reading of Donald Lazere's recent article in JAC, I was thinking about what a great movie Bulworth was. Have any of you used it in a composition course before, or considered using it?

Lawrence Lessig created a wiki for critics of his work, to assemble comprehensive counter-arguments for Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, The Future of Ideas, and Free Culture. Those of us working in the copyright/authorship/intellectual property area might find it useful.

Politickal Gazetteer Declan McCullagh notes that "Annoying someone via the internet is now a federal crime," punishable by "stiff fines and two years in prison" for those who might as like to write from pseudonym, or, as quoth the Law, "without disclosing his name." Such a Law, sign'd with full Approval by our President, would have made criminal the writings of one Isaac Bickerstaff on his Blog some years ago, and had I been Fool enough to place them Online, would have indeed made crimes of my own public letters against Samuel Chase, among certayn other Letters. So I write, publicly, pseudonymously, and with the full intent to Vex, Annoy, and Bedevil: you, the Signers of Section 113 of H.R. 3402, are truly the Authors of one of the select handful of Idiocy's Immortal Classics.

Very Truly Yours,

Publius

Boing-Boing has a post on this but I thought I'd bring it to Kairos' attention. It appears the big Telcos are lobbying Congress hard "to create a two-tier Internet." From a Boston.com story

AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp. are lobbying Capitol Hill for the right to create a two-tiered Internet, where the telecom carriers' own Internet services would be transmitted faster and more efficiently than those of their competitors.

One has to wonder how universal the higher speed tier would be.