Check out this ACLU PSA about the Total Information Awareness Act

From boing-boing:

This excellent piece of short speculative fiction presented as a video clip depicts pizza ordering in a near-future United States. Link

(Thanks Patricio! ) [boing-boing]

Las Vegas braces for DEFCON

This weekend in Las Vegas, the world's largest hacker convention, DEFCON, will be taking place. As opposed to what the register says, there will mostly be drinking and more drinking. [the register uk]

Guardian Angels Return to Los Angeles

The red berets are back in effect in LA with conditional support from the LAPD. The condition is that they should stay away from areas that have dangerous gang activity.