http://www.wetmachine.com The Blog of author John Sundman and Friends en-us Nucleus CMS v3.23 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.wetmachine.comnucleus/wetmachine_icon.jpg http://www.wetmachine.com http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1194 One of the things the Republicans did when they controlled Congress was to set up a process by which Congress could directly overrule an administrative agency. Called a “Resolution of Disapproval,” it must be passed by both houses of ... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1194 Fri, 16 May 2008 15:09:53 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1191 There are those still clinging to the desperate hope that somehow critics of Comcast's “network management” policy of “delaying” BitTorrent packets “only during peak congestion periods” will be discredited. The... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1191 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:05:07 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1189 A little over a year ago we blogged here on wetmachine about the mean nasty RIAA evildoers and how and why they were planning to kill Internet radio because the RIAA is an organization dedicated to promoting corporate control of everything you can... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1189 Thu, 15 May 2008 11:02:52 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1186 If I weren't generally pleased with my quick flip through of the Commission's Latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on D Block, I would declare it a true sign of the coming of the Apocalypse. Amidst the Mighty Earthquakes, the Great Whirlwinds, an... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1186 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:49:27 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1185 My original vision for Wetmachine was that it would be kind of an anti-Boing-Boing: a technology-themed site full of fear and dread, skeptical of the notion of “progress” and paranoid about machines from nanoscopic brain-rearrangers to... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1185 Tue, 13 May 2008 10:50:20 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1184 Yeah, it's a weak opener, but I couldn't get any more clever. Bill McKibben's most recent post, reprinted here in today in “Tomgram”, is a bite sized mouthful, likely to send daddy drunk and mumbling into the night... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1184 Mon, 12 May 2008 14:08:43 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1183 The Media Access Project's Innovation '08 Forum on Content and Control. Be there or b x b. http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1183 Mon, 12 May 2008 08:10:11 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1182 I just turned 44, which kind of sucks, but as they say, it's better than the alternative. I think I've been old for a long long time, but now I have to admit it. Virtual World have been growing up, too, and my feelings are somewhat the same. Despi... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1182 Sun, 11 May 2008 09:10:13 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1181 From recent headlines: Now that the FCC hearing in Standford is over, Comcast had dumped the idea of a consumer “bill of rights” for consumers. Instead, apparently picking up on Commissioner McDowell's confusion over ICANN and how it... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1181 Fri, 9 May 2008 13:39:12 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1180 “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” --Obligatory Cliche Neitsche Quote When last we left Sprint, the wily ... http://www.wetmachine.com/item/1180 Wed, 7 May 2008 22:23:07 -0400