1. March, 2003 - Stuck on the Ground

Enzi aims to exempt hobby rockets from [Homeland Security] bill. If the exemption isn’t passed, you’ll need special ATF permission to launch model rockets. [fark!]
Coming soon at an airport near you: Passengers To Get Their Own Terror Warning Labels. Get a red flag on the background check (which includes your credit history), and you won’t be able to fly.
In Liars Club, the City Pages looks into the case of John Knight, a candidate for the sixth district seat on the Hennepin County Commission who lied in a campaign statement. I don’t know that criminal prosecution is the right answer, but if he’d been elected, I think it would be serious enough that he should have been thrown out of office. Then again, I think that legislators who break their oath to defend and uphold the Constitution should be tossed, too.
Wired has an interview with Ralph Nader, Patent Buster. In it, Nader talks about the expenses of dealing with bad patents. It fills in the details I hinted at yesterday.
The Copyright Office has posted Reply Comments on Rulemaking on Anticircumvention. These are the comments people sent in explaining why the DMCA prohibitions of circumventing copy protection are Bad Things. [boing boing]
Buffy Slayed after seven seasons. Major Bummage. [flutterby]
Make Cthuugle Ph'nglui Search Fhtagn! your search engine of choice! Or maybe not. [davezilla]