I have to join in expressing my burning curiosity about how Violet Blue "behaved" to prompt your unpublication of her. Could you at least post a link to something about the incident so that your readers can judge for themselves? The shitstorm is a-blowing and can't be unblown. It cannot make things worse at this point to reveal what happened.

I don't think this is necessarily a human decision or a value judgment.

It looks to me like a poorly implemented automation of a journalistic style manual that says "to avoid ambiguity and respect the subject's dignity, use the term 'homosexual' instead of 'gay' or 'queer'."

Do any readers here have access to the AP Style Book to shed additional light on this?

As the saying goes, don't attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by stupidity.

I wish MY Leatherman had been inscribed "Always Think Forfeiture" because it might have reminded me to put it in my checked suitcase the last time I traveled by airline. Instead it was forfeited to TSA. I wonder how many forfeited Leathermans the TSA has in their collection now?

Smacks much of COINTELPRO

This is a prime example of how the executive power under Republicans has interfered with the judiciary branch. They reached their people on the 9th Circuit and told them how to rule.

The Fourth Amendment is a dead letter, too. Starting with Nixon.

Looks like YouTube took down this video and the McCain one, too. Stupid DMCA property paranioa!

Is this really a robot? Or just a simple machine that pulls a trigger?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes a drinking straw for kids is shaped like a rocket ship.

Yay! I'm donating to EFF right now.

I think Microsoft hopes to close this deal before Bush -- and his non-enforcement of U.S. antitrust law -- leaves the White House.

Hey, congratulations, Cory! I didn't know you were pregnant.

Hey, can I borrow your hot air balloon while you're on leave? You'll be lighter-than-air on your own for quite a while. Permanently, perhaps.

I'm so delighted for you!

This book also seems prophetic in many ways. Not necessarily the core technology, but other developments in politics and media since the book was written seem to have come true. "We have solved the problem of elections." Indeed!

I was just going to say, between the ear and the cockroach, we need a happy chaser....