Required Reading

These are things I think everyone should read.

• Save the Internet
• MoveOn.org Civic Action: Democracy in Action
• Public Knowledge - Net Neutrality Video
• Recent attacks on independence of judges endanger democracy
• EFF: DMCA Archive
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

  A very good framework. The author(s) intended this for online communications with "hackers" for troubleshooting purposes, but this applies to many situations... including paid technical support.

• Trusted Computing FAQ

  In the terms of the computer owner, "Trusted Computing" = "Treacherous Computing".

• EFF: Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk
• Can you trust your computer?

  If the big players in the computer industry have their way, the answer is a resounding NO.

Optional Reading

Below are a list of pages (most likely news or science articles of some sort) that I've found interesting enough to tag on del.icio.us. Perhaps you'll find them interesting as well. Any comments I included while tagging the article will show up as well.

• Slipknot Declares Themselves "Heaviest Band"

  This couldn't be funnier if someone had intended it to be funny.

• Crossing the Ring Plane of Uranus

  The title made me chuckle, but it's a good writeup nonetheless.

• Explanation of Dark Matter Might Lie in Origin of Stars
• 'Radiation-eating' Fungi Finding Could Trigger Recalculation Of Earth's Energy Balance And Help Feed Astronauts
• Routers from Space!
• SPACE.com -- Giant Pool of Water Ice at Mars' South Pole
• Black Holes: Dark and Deadly
• World's Oldest Rocks Show How Earth May Have Dodged Frozen Fate Of Mars
• Satellite prepares to go super-cold
• Concrete 'to stem Java mud flow'
• Mammoth Cloud Engulfs Titan’s North Pole
• Slashdot | Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again
• Hubble's main camera shuts down
• 'Hobbit' human 'is a new species'
• Andromeda Involved In Ancient Galactic Collision