Dave Winer arrives in Winnemucca….

10:23AM. Logging off from California. 7:06PM. Logging on from Winnemucca, NV. Had a lovely drive today. I’m exactly where I want to be, in the middle of absolutely nowhere. A little bit of rain coming over the Sierra. It’s warm here, in the upper 50s. Had a little trouble connecting via Earthlink, it’s a long…

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Code red….

Mexico Warns Of Border Closing. NBC San Diego Mar 11 2003 10:24PM ET [Moreover – California news] Here’s the interesting part of this article: The Mexican consulate said it was told that if the United States goes to war with Iraq, the color-coded alert system will go to code red, and the lanes of entry…

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Finding intelligent life through your screen saver…

Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look: “After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio…

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Just like in the movies!….

NY Times: Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. [Tomalak’s Realm] I’ve…

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