From The San Diego Union Tribune, Commentary by Robert P. Laurence: With “Public” as its middle name, NPR until now has seemed like an institution the public could trust, or at least relate to. It seemed like a human, possibly even humane, sort of place. Now, NPR is acting like any other big, powerful, dumb, clumsy, unfeeling, implacable, stonewalling, soulless bureaucracy that doesn’t know or care what its constituents need or want.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040402-9999-news_lz1c2npr.html

You know, I really hate it when someone says exactly the same thing I do, but so darned much better…

From Wired: Google’s plan to offer free Web-based e-mail has raised worries among privacy advocates that the service could make it easier for law enforcement to conduct surveillance of its users.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62917,00.html

Ooh…this went from sounding good to sounding really creepy right fast…

From Wired: April Fool’s Day pranksters took their trickery online Thursday, perpetrating hoaxes that ran the gamut from fake news stories to phony products to bogus corporate announcements. Some of the more inspired hoaxes included lunar Web development jobs, in-car chicken roasters and an automatic hunger eliminator. A common theme: Most of it was pretty hard to take seriously, even for a minute.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62901,00.html