Former Kennedy Administration official Joh Seigenthaler had someone post a bio about him on Wikipedia that he took issue with, is pissed he can't sue whoever did it, Wikipedia for letting them do it, and BellSouth for letting whoever it was online.

His initial response was to call the founder of Wikipedia and bitch. Sorry, dude. You monumentally don't understand what's going on here. The good news is soon you'll be dead and won't care.

You'd think someone who has a Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies named after him at a university would be a little less sanguine about advocating for prior restraint -- which the Supreme Court has roundly rejected, I might add.

Got the link from Slashdot. Good comment/reply here.

Secunia - Advisories - Microsoft Internet Explorer "window()" Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Fer cryin' out loud, if you've got the option switch to Firefox. I understand about work compuers and admin passwords and if your local IT hefe wants to run the risk (or has to because you got some crap-ass tool that's IE-only) that's really his business.

But if you're running IE by choice, think about switching. It will make the internet a better place and if you use the link I've got up on top of my page I'll get a buckaroo.

Anyone using Internet Explorer on a PC should just stop:

Exploit code for a critical flaw in fully patched versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser has been released on the Internet, putting millions of Web surfers at risk of computer hijack attacks.

The zero-day exploit, posted by a U.K.-based group called "Computer Terrorism," could allow a remote hacker to take complete control of a Windows system if the victim simply browses to a malicious Web site.

Ziff Davis Internet News have verified that the exploit works on fully patched Windows XP systems with default IE installations.

Click the button to go get FireFox:

I get a buck if you install it. Beer and skittles all around!

Hrmz... Google seems to be serving the wrong advert. Get Firefox Anyway, even if I don't get a dollar

Jeff Jarvis and Bill Quick have a flamewar over the Pajamas Media/Open Source Media debacle.

Quick primer: a bunch of right-leaning writers, many of them online, are "Taking on the MSM" with a funded venture into online news and reportage. It feels a lot like dot-com hype from what I hear, and I think their take on things -- apparently the NY Times is the root of all evil -- is off the mark, but whatever.

Anyway, their whole launch process has been a rather humorous fiasco. This is a strange experience for me, watching people who are professionals, my elders and alledged betters, get bogged down in the quagmire of startups and flamewars.

I mean, hello?

This is another reason why I think The Book is potentially pretty important. We can lap the greedheads and power-junkies in a minute if we get aligned and in motion. They're lazy. They're not all that smart. They don't really Get It at all. So fuck 'em, I say. Let's do it better.