- Last night Evan pointed out that there seemed to be a civil disobedience/uprising in northern Iran (in Fereydunkenar, a city of 30,000), and I linked to it. Is this a big deal?
No word of it on any other news outlets, though (well, here’s one). [101-280]Several protesters have been killed and tens of other wounded and arrested.
Several official buildings, including the Security divison, have been damaged as the crowd retaliated to the regime forces extreme brutality and use of lethal force.
- It seems there’s also unrest in Syria: Dozens said killed in riots in Kurdish quarter near Damascus. Still nothing in the mainstream news outlets here, and no updates I can find. I don’t expect CNN or the Beeb to cover all the news in the world, but some of this seems noteworthy to me. [instapundit]
- I’ve put together an archive of all of my 2004 Minneapolis Transit Strike linkage and commentary. I’ll attempt to keep updating it as the strike progresses. I have almost no links to the Star-Tribune, since their archive policy means that links go dead, and I don’t think that’s right. It would be nice if there were some way I could get access to their archives for some (small) fixed price, so if you know anyone in the department there that handles that sort of thing, an introduction might be useful.
- Jim has more on the Transit Strike, asking why people think the drivers shouldn’t have health-care benefits. [jim]
- FCC fines Qwest a record $9 million for failing to follow rules designed to ensure competition for local phone service in Minnesota and Arizona after Minnesota had already fined Qwest $26 million for the same violations. Gee, is that why there are so few choices for local phone service here? [press-patch]
- FBI adds to wiretap wish list, and they want to require ISPs to let them tap everything, and outlaw introducing new services that can’t be tapped, and they’re wanting it to apply to all ISPs, including DSL providers and cable companies. Guess they haven’t heard of ssh or skype (to name just a couple). Or considered that not all internet services are created and introduced in the US. Then again, I guess they probably have, and that’s why they want a new law. [slashdot]
- BugMeNot.com has passwords for sites that want you to register before you can read their content and cypherpunk/cypherpunk doesn’t work. [vowe]
- Yesterday I wrote up a page on solving “host name lookup failure” problems in sendmail after I spent a couple hours figuring out what was going wrong and then how to fix it. It’s mostly for my benefit, but that’s what I said about the page I wrote on setting up SpamAssassin, and that’s turned into one of the more popular pages on my site.
I took some time yesterday to deal with infrastructure here on Dave’s Picks. If I can find time to do more today, I might actually get migrated to having each post be an individual archive item. There’s nothing especially hard about it, but my current plan is that they would all be file-based (rather than living in a database), and I’m not sure what the performance hit of something like that would be. It’ll be an interesting experiment. But the goal is to be able to hook up comments to individual items. At the rate things happen around here, it’ll probably be 2006 before I’m done, but to those of you who’ve mentioned wanting comments, I can at least say I’m working on it.
The big thing that might stand in my way is that I’m also thinking of making an RSS feed just for transit-strike-related news.