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New on the blogroll: coworker Dave Kramer and luminaries John Robb, Scott Rosenberg, and Philip Greenspun. Joe Gross’s link was down, but has moved because the Austin American-Statesman broke the permalink we were using.

LawMeme, riffing on NYT: Patriot Act may not ride off into the sunset. Summary: Orrin Hatch wants to do away with the “sunset provisions” of the Act, which put a five year time limit on the various flagrant Bill of Rights violations therein. As a parallel act, The Kyl-Schumer measure, currently approved by the Senate [...]

Answering my question from yesterday, CNN reports that four Marines were wounded in a suicide bombing as the coalition moves further into northern Iraq.

A slew of articles recently about RSS’s growing popularity:
Jon Udell in Infoworld points to an article about using RSS for corporate communications (including some excellent commentary, including the role of blogging in raising awareness about data that flows through RSS).
Jenny the Shifted Librarian writes about turning on the crowd at the Government Information Locator [...]

Farhad Manjoo in Salon: “‘Please step to the side, sir.’” Good article summarizing recent occurrences around airline screening, including newly-FOIA’d complaints of customers mistakenly profiled on the “no fly” blacklist. Also points to the MIT grad student paper on the flaws in CAPPS, which I had forgotten about. A nice complement to the earlier piece [...]

Whew. A huge deliverable (far huger than it had to be) off my desk; a blocking task on three major objectives cleared; no meetings for the rest of the afternoon. There’s a lot of stuff going on in blogland right now that I want to note while I can.

First, the fun one: John Robb points [...]

LawMeme, riffing on NYT: Patriot Act may not ride off into the sunset. Summary: Orrin Hatch wants to do away with the “sunset provisions” of the Act, which put a five year time limit on the various flagrant Bill of Rights violations therein. As a parallel act, The Kyl-Schumer measure, currently approved by the Senate [...]

Greg’s been on fire this week, reporting on outrageous political news from all over, including:

Norm Coleman, the Republican senator elected to replace Paul Wellstone, dissing the late Democrat: “To be very blunt and God watch over Paul’s soul, I am a 99 percent improvement over Paul Wellstone”…
Putting the war in Iraq in its proper context: [...]