- SOHO Hot Shot: X-whatever Flare! Movies of the big-ass solar flare on Tuesday. It’s the biggest ever recorded. [doc]
- EFF: Federal Communications Commission Adopts Broadcast Flag. Boo. But I don’t think it’s the end of the world. Heck, most of the stuff shown on TV isn’t really worth watching anyhow. I can watch everything my TiVo catches over the course of a whole week in a single day. [boing boing]
- Mississippi marina idea floated, right next to the new Park Board headquarters in Minneapolis. I’m not sure what I think of the idea yet, but my first impression is that it would be a good thing to get more people on the river. I worry that they’d end up screwing it up somehow. [strib]
- Tower Heights Drop In ‘A’ Mill Plan. An update on the redevelopment right here in the neighborhood. I’ve said before that I don’t mind the tower height they proposed initially, but not everyone in the neighborhood feels that way.
- City’s Big Land Chance Is Here in SEMI, one of the few areas with space that can be developed in Minneapolis.
- The pitch takes a hit–AT&T is being fined for calling people who don’t want to be called. [press-patch]
- FBI Visits Cryptome:
I’m glad John Young took the tack he did. Sounds like he wasn’t intimidated and calmly explained that he was going to keep doing what he was doing. [endwar][Special Agent] Renner said there is no investigation of Cryptome, that the purpose of the visit was to ask Cryptome to report to the FBI any information which Cryptome
had a gut feeling
could be a threat to the nation. - Jury nullification is now before the US Supreme Court – It’ll be interesting to see how this comes out, as the jury-nullification movement hasn’t been very popular with the government in the past. Which, if you want to get out of jury duty, could be a handy fact to have at hand. [endwar]