Archive for October, 2005

Your body, your Gestational Certificate application

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

I’m just going to let this one speak for itself:

Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do become pregnant “by means other than sexual intercourse.”
According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, […]

Condemned to repeat

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Americans are losing the vast majority of their aural history according to a new study commissioned by the library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board. on a small scale, we’re all familiar with the problem: what to do with the cases of vinyl and 8-tracks in the garage now that turntables are hard […]

Well, home of the brave, anyway. Your papers, please!

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

As usual, I don’t really know whether David Gratton’s latest post makes me want to laugh or cry…or just scream.

David is off to the Web 2.0 conference in SF this week, and on the way he had a little run in with the U.S. Border Patrol, and not his first. Fortunately for him, he flew […]