The Boston Globe reports in detail about the Bush Dictatorship.

I’m sorry, but that’s what it’s become. Why did we let this happen?

Peter Daou slams the mainstream media for ignoring Stephen Colbert’s thorough lampooning of the President at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner last night.

Warren Kremer Paino Advertising didn’t like being repeatedly criticized on the Maine Web Report, so they’ve filed a very large lawsuit against Lance Dutson, the blogger who runs it.

Ed Cone has a good rundown on the situation. Thanks to Scoble for the link… but please, don’t stay away from Maine. It’s a nice place to visit, and to live.

Edit: added Dutson’s name.

Robert Scoble just linked to a post complaining about the developer “personas” that Microsoft uses to think about who will be using their dev tools. I need to return to it later and read it in detail, but in the mean time, you all can read it. :-)

Intellectual property law in this country is badly broken. For the latest example, check out this information about the latest abomination working its way through Congress.

Someday, I should run for Congress with the slogan “Don’t vote for me, because I’m not going to Washington to play the game. I want to fix things, but the system is not set up to allow this to happen. So don’t send me there.”

(For sufficiently small values of filk, that is)

If you hear the sale’s on
You gotta get there before it’s gone
You will walk a hundred aisles to find a deal…
A hundred aisles, a hundred aisles,
A hundred aisles, a hundred aisles
I–you will walk a hundred aisles to find a deal.

Remember Twinkie and Thimbelle, who had a run-in with a complete quack a while back?

Well, they found a competent doctor this time. He made an immediate diagnosis of fibromyalgia, and put her on a couple of meds.

Twinkie has been almost pain-free for over a week. God willing, it will only get better from here.

Mike Gunderloy tells us about a tool that will embed the Google PageRank of all the links on a page into the display of a page.

Neat tool: it’s fun to see how my blogroll ranks, for example. :-)

…All-righty then!

Betanews is reporting that Microsoft has decided to allow the Visual Studio Express products to remain free. This is good news for hobbyists and those who want to learn the various products before committing to them financially.