Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Interesting stuff I’m finding out as I dig into the peercast world.  I haven’t followed the Internet radio debate, but wondered a few weeks ago why it was that my favorite Seattle radio station (KMTT) was no longer broadcasting over the net.  Jamie Zawinski explains.  Whoa!  I wonder how this legislation and billing mechanism apply to foreign broadcasters.  A lot of Canadian webcasters, for instance, still seem to be broadcasting, and Radio Free Virgin is definitely out there as well.  

George Bush will be "patient and deliberate" with Iraq.

Peercast is neat.  While the music industry is busy trying to shut down internet radio, these folks have grafted broadcast and receive services on top of Gnutella.  Voila – a distributed, non-centralized radio network.  I am listening to Adam Curry (the former MTV jockey) right now.  

Inconstant Speed of Light May Debunk Einstein. Whoa!  

In the Globe and Mail’s opinion piece Saddam: Bluff or Bullets, Erik Wang, Canada’s former ambassador to Iraq, makes the case that all the public information about war plans is simply the American political process operating "at it’s most open and transparent".  The National Post’s piece A ‘light’ war won’t work in Iraq, takes a slightly different view, arguing that the "openness and transparency" may be deliberately orchestrated.  Quite a bit of detail in this piece on the military options available.

German leaders are warning that an Iraq attack could wreck the anti-terror coalition.  In the same article, Iraqi Kurd leader Jalal Talabani says that he will not "blindly follow" any US plan, and that the issues that prevented Bush senior from deposing Saddam a decade ago still remain.

And Conflict could soon be nuclear from The Times of London writes about an assessment done by a former Pentagon official arguing that Israel might choose nuclear weapons should Iraq attack them with chemical or biological weapons as in the Gulf War.