I'm going to be in Denver, Colorado tomorrow (8/12/03) night, and East Hanover, New Jersey on Wednesday and Thursday nights. If anyone wants to buy me a beer, give me a call, or drop me an email.

Unanimous Consent and the Utopian Vision, by L. Neil Smith: " With taxation gone, not only will we have twice as much money to spend, but it will go twice as far, since those who produce goods & services won't have to pay taxes, either. In one stroke we'll be effectively four times as rich. There's no simple way to estimate the cost of regulation. Truckers say they could ship goods for one-fifth the present price without it. Many businesses spend a third of their overhead complying with stupid rules & filling out forms. The worst damage it does is to planning. Since you don't know what next year's whim of Congress will be, how can you plan? Plans that require ten, twenty, fifty years to nature? Might as well forget them. Let's figure that deregulation will cut prices, once again, by half. Now our actual purchasing power, already quadrupled by deTAXification, is doubled again. We now have eight times our former wealth!"

Jakob Nielsen: "Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The more you say, the more people tune out your message. "

Women hold mass nurse-in in California: "To the sounds of slurping, gurgling and the occasional howl, 684 women and their children held a mass breast-feed in Berkeley, California to mark World Breast-feeding Week. The number fell short of the 1,130 women of last year's nurse-in, which set a mark listed in the Guinness Book of World Records." I took a photograph of the event.

Octopi are Amazing: A video of a "camera approaching coral with no sign of animal. As the camera gets closer, an octopus (O. vulgaris) that was camouflaged changes color to white and becomes visible." via Metafilter.

Steve Pilgrim's open letter to Carly Fiorina : "Lest this letter become solely a gripe letter, let me offer a suggestion. Rather than posing for pictures for magazines, use that time each week to submit and track a warranty or non-warranty repair with your own company. Don't have an assistant do it. You do it. Spend the time on hold. Act like a customer. See what your firm is doing to its customers. Get a printer repaired. Call for service on a server. Send a calculator in. Pick some Compaq products and some HP products. Mix it up a bit."

1. Find Paint. Its in Start, then Programs then Accessories.
2. Right click on its shortcut.
3. Select Properties.
4. In Shortcut Key type the letter "P". "Cntrl + Alt" will be automatically added. Press OK.
5. Pressing the CONTROL, ALT and P at the same time will now open Paint. Close it if you have it open.
6. Press the PRINT SCREEN button to capture the entire screen, or ALT and PRINT SCREEN to capture just the current window.
7. Press CONTROL, ALT and P
8. Paint is now open. Press CONTROL and V.
9. Most likely, a window will up saying "The image in the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Would you like the bitmap enlarged?" Press ENTER for yes.
10. Your screenshot is now visible in Paint.
11. Press CONTROL and S.
12. Name your file.
13. Select Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif) in the 'Save as type' field.
14. Choose a place to save your screenshot.
15. Press return.
16. Congratulations on your screenshot. Feel free to email it.

Comparing the US and the EU Constitutions: "The US Bill of Rights is a list of individual rights against the state. In contrast, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which constitutes Part II of the proposed EU constitution, includes a long list of rights to services provided by the state. Such rights, for example, include education, a free placement service, paid maternity leave, social security benefits and social services, housing assistance, preventive health care, services of general economic interest and high levels of environmental and consumer protection."

New from Google: Google News Alerts. "Google News Alerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify."

Anarchist Web Site Lands Man in Jail: "A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs."