Here is a link to the American Civil Liberties Union stance on Gun Control.
An interesting tidbit from their page follows:
Since the Second Amendment. . . applies only to the right of the State to maintain a militia and not to the individual’s right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express [...]

Get your copy of Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2.
You can check out all the new bugsfeatures and then learn how to uninstall it.
Make sure you leave Microsoft some feedback at their discussion group. Hopefully, we won’t need to design a new series of hacks and fixes for this new browser. [...]

The new Willie Nile album “Streets of New York” is to be released on 21FEB06.
Willie is the MAN!!!

Every Friday I will try to have an Open Trackback article.
From the Open Trackback Alliance FAQ:
The entire concept is to encourage bloggers to showcase their best recent articles on other blogs which may not otherwise recognize or know about their works.
Open Trackback Alliance members have agreed to create an open article at least [...]

Microsoft has finally released us from the torture that is IE/Mac.
In June 2003 the MS Mac Business Unit stopped development on Internet Explorer for Mac. MS ended support for the application on the last day of 2005 and will no longer offer it for download as of 31Jan06.
From Microsoft.com:
It is recommended that Macintosh [...]

Original story:
Saturn’s radio emissions could be mistaken for a Halloween sound track.
That’s how two researchers describe their recent findings, published in the July 23 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters. Their paper is based on data from the Cassini spacecraft radio and plasma wave science instrument. The study investigates sounds that are not just eerie, [...]

It seems today that I was given the distinct honor of being named one of the New Guru’s for css creator dot com.
I am humbled and grateful and I suppose now I am actually going to have to learn what this CSS thing really is.
Thanks to Tony for the finest learning forum [...]

OK, before everyone here gets my email address and decides to send me cute stories or important virus alerts, here are the rules:
DON’T!!!
I do not want emails telling me about a child that is missing or cute stories about children outsmarting the teacher. I do not want lists of amazing facts (a duck’s quack [...]