Elle magazine has threatened Avery Brewing of Colorado with a copyright infringement lawsuit over the name of one of it's best-known brews. Avery is a small microbrewery dedicated to brewing excellent, high quality craft brewed beer. Elle magazine is dedicated to the destruction of our society through the starvation and objectification of women.

If you think this is as ridiculous as I do, why not send Elle and email and tell them about it: elle@neodata.com

The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA was involved in Vista's security development. Microsoft claims that the agency was involved in testing and the creation of an admin-oriented security guide. I'm not buying it.

Pirate Cat Radio in California is using some of G-Dub's recent legislation to legally operate a low-power community station in the commercial FM band.

They seem to have a pretty diverse program schedule, running the gamut from Indie rock to radio dramas to an occult talk show.

Take back the airwaves!

Herr Lott regains control of the senate GOP caucus.

Microsoft has proclaimed that Vista will be the most secure operating system ever. Revolutionary features like virtual filesystem roots for users and applications, allowing applications to run with restricted priveleges, and the ability to access tools that require administrator rights by supplyng that admin password on a per use basis rather then having to log out and log in as the Administrator user are noted as answers to todays complex security needs.

Somewhere, Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie are having a big laugh over this.

"UPS, the UPS brandmark and the color brown are registered trademarks of United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All rights reserved."

WTF?

Hens Zimmerman tells it like it is in:

Death of Democracy.

One Thousand US troops have now been killed in Iraq.

There's an anti-spyware bill in congress right now, and it's getting huge support on both sides of the aisle. Make sure your representatives and seantors are behind it.