Resolved: There is a fine line between not understanding something (for instance, the Internet) and not wanting to understand it. Submitted for your consideration: Turkey.

The revolution will not be televised, but there will be dancing. Meet one of Emma Goldman’s heirs.

Erin Aubry Kaplan had a wonderful piece about Barbara Lee in the LA Weekly a little bit ago; you can read it now at AlterNet.

Keith Teare’s got some sobering things to say about Microsoft — worth your time, especially if you are/were fond of his RealNames service.

High speeds! Tremendous explosive power! Subatomic particles! Weird science! For the love of God, what’s not to like about this story?!

Man, I knew I was raised all wrong…!

Oh, WOW — how long have we seen this coming? A judge suggests that Web “filtering” (read: censoring) software may be liaible for the stuff they don’t catch. Rock on.

Christians for Cannabis sounds like a joke site (intentionally or not), and I’m not Christian in any case, but you should really read this sincere essay about why the sitekeeper’s doing this project. I wish her well.

Funny-sad-obvious article in Salon today about the dark side of corporate email. Moral: Some people are assholes. Well, yeah…

A tremendous piece-in-progress in Seattle’s Reader this week, in which the writer begins by covering the ever-so-pat story of a lesbian prom king and ends by realizing that she and everyone else may have missed the real story of Fernwood, WA, USA.