My friend Peter Wayner has just re-released as a free e-book Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans. It's a very good book and makes a compelling case for the merits of "free software" relative to "commercial" software. (I'm pleased to note that the Shark Blog and my business server run on Linux boxes, which seem to be more reliable than any Windows machine I've ever used). Buy Wayner's book in hardcopy if you can, in the meantime you can download for free here

Why am I not surprised? "Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday Iraq's arms declaration was riddled with lies and omissions and predicted there would be no peaceful outcome if Baghdad continued its 'dissembling'" But If Baghdad continued dissembling?

Bill Frist Challenges Lott for Senate Leadership

And in another lapse of judgment, Boalt Hall professor Linda Hamilton Krieger has been found to be a signatory on a Faculty Petition in Support of Students for Justice in Palestine and Free Speech. But the petition is not really in support of "free speech", it is in support of students who were charged with acts of violence, such as preventing other students from going to class, and biting a police officer. Fortunately, only 31 other Berkeley professors were as easily confused about the difference between free speech and violence. Not to mention that the student violence was committed in support of a terrorist movement.