We all probably know that section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act will sunset at the end of this year. What you may not know is that people have been working hard in the Senate to make sure that it doesn’t. The ACLU is reporting that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence approved legislation which will expand and reauthorize sunsetting parts of the USAPA. Declan McCullagh has a few more details. The bill [pdf] should be heading to the Senate floor. Now might be a good time to contact your elected representative.
Month: June 2005
House of Books
Just what the title says. If I can’t find my dream live-in library, I could try something like this. [lj]
delightful wikipedia timewaster/tool
Steven points me to the live recent changes feed for Wikipedia. This is sort of a neat way to look at how dynamic the project it [good news and bad news to librarians, I know] but also to get a ton of examples, an overview if you will, of what a good update looks like, or what all these updates are doing. You see logged in users, annotated changes, links to more information, and nonsense pages deleted so fast it can make your head spin. Fascinating.
update: one rss feed on lj site
Blake points out the LJ Tech Blog part of the Library Journal site which does have an RSS feed. It’s also got a lot of names you might recognize.
book EULAs? textbook ads?
Just say no to shrinkwrap licenses on reference books. In fact, say “Hell no!” Ads in textbooks? No, no, no!