From the VodkaPundit:

 Raised-Glass Salute. Man, just when I thought I'd done a decent job of promoting the blogosphere, Pejman one-ups me. Two-ups? Read it.

The article he references is here, and it's a site I think I will start watching.

The model for accessing KB articles on Microsoft's site is changing on November 7th; details are here.  Existing urls will function for two years.

A 169-year old statute in Georgia that criminalizes sexual activity outside of marriage is being challenged by a teenager who was found guilty under the statute. 

The challenge is being brought by a teenager described in court papers as J.M. A year ago, he was prosecuted as a 16-year-old after he was found having sexual relations with his girlfriend in her Fayette County home. Although the girl, identified by court records as J.D., placed a stool against her bedroom door, her mother caught them in the act at about 3 a.m.

J.M., now 17, was ordered to pay a fine and write an essay on why he shouldn't have engaged in sex. He politely wrote that it wasn't any of the court's business, said another one of his attorneys.

Ha!  But first...you are kidding me.  I am always amazed to learn there are laws like this on the books in this century.  Story from the Washington Times via iFeminists.com (emphasis mine).

From [Matt Croydon::postneo]: 

Werner Vogels and his CS students at Cornell are working on a project that could change the way that people collect, report, and view news.  ....Here's another snippet I like:

Our premise is that current push solutions fail to take advantage of the collaborative power of the Internet. The solutions are often proprietary, and employ a one-to-many model where the producer is expected to deliver “personalized” content directly to each of the consumers. The approach clearly has scalability limitations. Yet despite these problems, there has been little activity by publishers of the many real-time news sites to provide a coordinated solution for this problem. We believe that the time has come for an Internet-wide infrastructure for efficient real-time content delivery.

Very interesting; like I said before, but in different words, maybe someone else is working on a solution that is consumer-centric rather than provider-centric.

Yeah, baby--I was going crazy in Europe recently when I had no BlackBerry signal.  This is fantastic.  Plus, in addition to global roaming, the new Blackberry web client apparently allows access to ISP/POP3 e-mail accounts in addition to the default account.  Woo hoo!  Hotmail, klyjen, and work e-mail all on one device!  It's like having Outlook XP on my Blackberry.

Press Release is here, on the Research in Motion site.

What is Ridiculously Easy Group Forming? [via Scripting News]

This sounds particularly interesting...like universal liveTopics or Radio categories or something.  Could be interesting, but wouldn't it be more interesting to have a feed (RSS feed?) that could search defined blogs and feed information with those topics and/or categories or markers into a central feed?  Say, allowing me to subscribe to "Indian food" or something, and get one feed that included all items marked as "Indian Food" across the blogverse...I would be much more likely to make connections with additional bloggers if their content was "fed" to me dynamically if and when they make a post on something that interests me (or otherwise meets certain criteria).

It could even be a "feed" from a Google search (similar to the Google news service, except checking blogs only) of blog posts that used "Indian Food" in the last hour (similar to creating "search" criteria in Lexis-Nexis and being informed if/when new items in their walled-in world of content meet your search criteria).  That would eliminate the need for specific categories or something like liveTopics, which would require a great great deal of coordination among bloggers.   On the other hand, the Google-type idea could result in information overload, especially if the "subscribe" options were too broad.

The cross-references might be there, or could maybe be formed by "trusting" certain sites more than others.  I trust Rick's judgment and the judgment of people he trusts, so I want to look at blogs in my blogroll, the blogs in each blog in my blogroll, and blogs in each of those.  This ends up with considerably less chance of a far-flung blogger coming to my attention, but would reduce the congestion in my aggregator.

Who knows.  Maybe this already exists.  If it does, I haven't found it...