This is a list of all people with the surname ROLL who have vacated this plane of existence and left their social security numbers for us to pillage. I'd like to know where the data for this originated.

2002 Social Security Number Index for ROLLs in the USA

Another white hat is born.

Also, an interesting comment about the graduation requirements. Why don't more schools do this?

CNN.com - Student gets 'A' for hacking school computer - Dec. 18, 2002

This is the website that features the 7 designs that are being considered to replace the WTC site in lower Manhattan. Keep trying if it's busy.

What to replace the WTC with?

When it comes to concocting fevered visions of the future as a way of illuminating the present, Jules Verne got some things right in his time, Aldous Huxley got others, and George Orwell got still others. In our time—in this terror-haunted interlude (we hope) of background-hum dread and well-founded paranoia—no literary divinator gets it righter than the sci-fi pulp master Philip K. Dick.

When Worlds Collide

] "What's important --- increasingly important --- is the
] process by which you figure out what to look at. This is
] the beginning of the real and true economics of
] information. Not who owns the books, who prints the
] books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not
] holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts
] that tell you what to access --- what to pay attention
] to. "

``Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge''

MP3 audio of a great talk by Howard Zinn. Required listening for anyone with an interest in dissent or non-standard history.

Howard Zinn - Reed College Talk - People's History of the United States

The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.

Welp... kiss your freedom goodbye.

OMG! Break out the jack boots!!!

I would've never considered joining this organization until the last 14 months.

ACLU Membership up

When Maine Gov. Angus King unveiled his plan to put a computer in the hands of every seventh-grader in the state, some thought the idea was as loony as trying to catch a laptop in a lobster trap.

Teachers in particular were concerned. After all, they would be expected to use the machines with their students -- many of whom knew more about computers than they did.

Teachers Mainely Happy With Tech

There's no denying the Detroit sound -- that deep Motown groove, the relentless rock beat, and the spacey thrum of techno. At one time Detroit radio was known for taking that sound and spreading it to the masses.
Excited voices of deejays like "Frantic" Ernie Durham, Lee Alan, Scott Regen and the Electrifyin' Mojo were as compelling to listen to as the records they spun. Because of them, artists such as Bob Seger, Parliament-Funkadelic and the MC5 launched from Detroit radio to national stardom.
But that once distinctive sound has been diluted by playlists controlled by media conglomerates airing predictable music that could be heard anywhere in the country.
Today, radio programming leaves little room to showcase local musicians, and there has been an invasion of syndicated shows and on-air personalities spliced in from distant cities via computer. The end result: Listeners are tuning out.

Personally, having been someone who was *greatly* influenced by what I heard on Detroit radio, I find this a terrible crime. It was DJ's like the Electrifying Mojo and Mike Halloran that introduced me to MC5, Kraftwerk, Parliament-Funkadelic, Run DMC, Afrika Bambaataa, the Damned, the Clash, the Cocteau Twins, the Legendary Pink Dots, Skinny Puppy, and a ton of other brilliant artists. WDET was almost single handedly responsible for bringing the Detroit Techno sound to life by playing Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, Kevin Saunderson, and Jeff Mills, not to mention contemporary classical composers like Wendy Carlos, Todd Machover, Suzanne Ciani, and the Art of Noise.

Having this resource gave me a tremendous encyclopaedic knowledge of music and exposed my palette to stuff well beyond that of most PEOPLE, much less most teenagers. It was a huge reason why I became a musician in the first place, because I was constantly being surprised and excited by what music could be and the ideas that it could express. I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Detroit radio for enriching my life in such a profound way.

Perhaps it's anachronistic to lament the passing of radio now in our digital age. Hell, I haven't listened to anything other than NPR and college radio since 1990. But with each passing year, it gets harder and harder to find truly exciting and original works of art, and not coincidentaly, the dross that passes for pop music gets more and more staid. While I can see the economics behind it all making sense, does that make it right? At what point do we stop engorging in profits at the sake of destroying the future? Is this even a dumb question?

Once distinctive sound fades into predictability