Judge Jim Gray on why we need to rethink drug laws.

The news and TV have ended up taking serious threats to society and exaggerating and distorting them. In the process, we have become paranoid.

A debate between Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio and Michael Badnarik, 2004 Libertarian Presidential Candidate.

The key to freedom is to be able to have the ability to defend yourself &, if you dont have the tools to do that, then youre going to be at the mercy of whomever wants to put you away.

I'm not sure why but this attitude is prevalent in our industry.

Update: Mosso was rebranded as The Rackspace Cloud in June 2009.

Update 1 Jan 2010: It looks like Rackspace has fixed the problem with Mosso's Scheduled Tasks. Anonymous' comment tipped me off that you can now set the command language to http, then enter your site's cron.php as the command to run.

Paulo Coelho speaks at the Digital, Life, Design in Munich. He tells of how pirating his own book increased sales in Russia from 1,000 copies per year to more than a million copies. His most interesting point, though, is that "the blessing of the internet is increased human contact." Tim Harford echoes this in chapter seven of his book, The Logic of Life. It's become clear that rather than causing people to be come isolated, the internet actively encourages more human contact.