I was doing some routine surfing when I came across these two articles on the web one about the results of Hamdan vs Rumsfeld in the Supreme Court. The other an article about how the republicans war on terror hurt our freedoms.

If you want a laugh then listen to this NPR commentary by Scott Cleland against Net Neutrality. His idiocy will astound you. If that doesn't convince you to support Net Neutrality then listen to Craig Newmark's counter commentary.

So I went out to buy a Nintendo DS Lite along with the game Brain Age. So far it has been a great addition to my daily routine. I do a sudoku in the morning, my usual one from google ig, and when I come home from work I do the daily training from Brain Age and sometimes an additional sudoku from the game as well. I like it much better than the random things I was doing before to keep my brain active and it seems to be much more effective. I no longer feel as sluggish most days.

Plus the other games I have for the NDS are awesome fun as well. Good job Nintendo.

So the US Senate isn't completely stupid. They did block the gay marriage ban that was floating through the senate floor.

BitTorrent's Bram Cohen is all for a two tiered internet? Wow he's nuts. Also some good posts at slashdot of the same article.

I saw this interesting article at engadget about how to build your own network firewall from an old pentium II with linux.

Here's three more interesting links on energy. This one talks about the myths and realities of ethanol suggesting it may not be all its hyped to be. This other one is sort of a propaganda commercial for using coal but is still interesting as we should definitely diversify our use of any resource for energy. Of course this post wouldn't be complete without a link talking about peak oil.