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BEYOND BREAKING FIREWALLS: How to fight Net censorship.

TAKING ON THE PEOPLE WHO CLING BITTERLY TO THEIR . . . FISHING RODS? ESPN: Obama Moving to Limit Fishing Access. “The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.”

A SALE ON tools and home improvement gear.

FAMILIAR TROPES: Matt Lauer picks, chooses “consensus.”

REPORT: Nissan has 56,000 pre-orders for all-electric Leaf. But are they real pre-orders, or just expressions of interest?

NANOTECHNOLOGY VS. CANCER: “For a long time nanotechnology was one of those technologies that lay only in our future. It is starting to show up in our present. Cornell researchers have attached antibodies to nanoparticles to attack colorectal cancer cells.”

USING ONLINE DATING to ask out people you already know?

UPDATE: Reader Steve Friedman writes:

Several years ago, I was browsing OKCupid and it suggested a new “top match” to me. As I read her profile, she seemed to be the girl of my dreams. But as I kept reading, some of her responses seemed awfully familiar, and I suddenly realized the profile belonged to my ex-girlfriend.

A few months later, we got back together, and are now happily married. So I guess OKCupid was smarter than we were.

Heh. Great story.

NO, IT’S NOT ABOUT RAHM EMANUEL: Creative Capos.

MAKING micro pirate radio.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND AlfonZo Rachel.

MATT LEWIS: Who are the swing votes for ObamaCare?

VACANT: “The Federal Reserve has quite a few vacancies – indeed, it appears that Obama will soon be able to name a majority of its seven governors.”

THE WORLD’S FIRST commercial brain/computer interface.

MARKDOWNS ON HP Printers.

REASON TV: Pork Party House: Where DC Insiders Go For Taxpayer-Subsidized Fun.

LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES IN PHILADELPHIA: Troopers raid popular bars for unlicensed beers: Dozens of gallons seized after ‘citizen complaint.’

More than a dozen armed State Police officers conducted simultaneous raids last week on three popular Philadelphia bars known for their wide beer selections. The cops confiscated hundreds of bottles of expensive ales and lagers, now in State Police custody at an undisclosed location.

The alleged offense: Although the bar owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state Liquor Control Board – a process that requires the brewers or their importers to pay a $75 registration fee for each product they want to sell in Pennsylvania.

Based on a complaint from someone the State Police refuse to identify, three teams of officers converged last Thursday on the three bars.

I’ll bet we’ll learn that this anonymous complainant is more than just a “concerned citizen.” And, really, this is ridiculous.

HAS OBAMA LOST BOB HERBERT? “The Obama administration and Democrats in general are in trouble because they are not urgently and effectively addressing the issue that most Americans want them to: the frightening economic insecurity that has put a chokehold on millions of American families. . . . Instead of focusing with unwavering intensity on this increasingly tragic situation, making it their top domestic priority, President Obama and the Democrats on Capitol Hill have spent astonishing amounts of time and energy, and most of their political capital, on an obsessive quest to pass a health care bill.”

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Romania, Twenty Years After The Fall of the Tyrant. Note that Totten’s supported by reader donations, so if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

Which is pretty good advice for bloggers generally, really! (Bumped).

ACCREDITATION: Unwelcome “Help” From The Feds.

RAHM EMANUEL: The Fall Guy?