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K10 points out the answer to the eternal question that keeps cyberpunk wannabes awake at night… “How do I make that funky green raining code that you see in the Matrix, the Matrix Reloaded and the Matrix Revolutions?”

Lisa Rein puts this way more eloquently than me when she says:

I went to sleep last night and woke up this morning thinking the same thoughts:

Never in a million years would I have ever predicted that I would be living in a world where I feel the need to take photographs inside of a Starbucks store in an attempt to somehow prove that I am still living in a free society.

Anyway, if you do take pictures of Starbucks interiors, be sure to post to Lessig’s comment page.

OK, finally finished the importing from the old Radio Userland site. Now to fix all the picture links.

An amazing photo tour through Uranium City in northwest Saskatchewan. Uranium City was a mining boomtown that once had a population of 5000, but is now a ghost town of abandoned buildings and radioactive tailing piles.

Clueless Orange County civic government stories are always the best:

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A group of Catholic business leaders will be allowed to build a high school for as many as 3,000 students at the site of an ancient burial ground after a 4-1 vote by the City Council on Monday night.

The school will be named JSerra High School – after the Rev. Junipero Serra, the priest who founded Mission San Juan Capistrano.

The council vote came after more than two hours of testimony, almost all of it from people opposed to the school at Camino Capistrano and Junipero Serra Road. Councilman Wyatt Hart noted that memorials to the site’s Indian past will be included at the campus and that the site was zoned for a hotel anyway.

Doesn’t anyone remember Poltergeist? Guess they will now.

Whether you want to call it the Mark Of The Beast, an innocent barcode, or another milestone in creeping fascism – the age of the implant chip is here.

Theoretically, this VeriChip will allow doctors to call up my medical records even if I’m too badly hurt to answer questions. It is also supposed to allow me to get money from an automatic teller machine by flashing my arm instead of punching in my PIN number. Or reassure airport security that I am a journalist, not a terrorist.

And, though the VeriChip strikes critics as Orwellian, its makers think the surgically implanted IDs could be the Social Security numbers of the future in a nervous world.

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However, ADS officials say this is just the beginning. They want to build a chip that can store loads of information, or act as the key to a central database that stores information about the user. Ultimately, the company hopes to be able to track the movement of people with chips worldwide using global positioning satellites.

Mac OS X Hints has a nice tutorial on how to configure port mapping on the Airport Base Station.

That Klingon interpreter story that everyone in the world (including myself) reported a couple days ago? Turns out it’s an urban legend.

The Guardian tracks down the whereabouts of design maven Peter Saville.

The Seattle Times reports on a couple who are being evicted from their house because the house is too small.

Alan Hord and Sharon Adams celebrated their third wedding anniversary yesterday by being evicted.

The couple were forced out of their 2,000-square-foot home south of Monroe because it didn’t meet the standards set by their tiny neighborhood association. The problem: The house isn’t big enough.

Hord bought the 5-acre property with a view of Mount Rainier about six years ago for $415,000. He moved into a home that had been converted from a barn.

But at 2,000 square feet, the barn off 238th Place Southeast didn’t satisfy the Mountain View Country Estates Homeowners Association’s rules. All homes must be at least 3,000 square feet.