I've long given up reading, listening and watching the news; it's just too depressing and makes me want to crawl up into a hole to avoid the nasty horrible world that we live in.
Okay, so it's a form of “poking my head in the sand” response, but it keeps me sane and happy, instead of psychotic and depressed.
So now it seems I should stop reading Slashdot. [1] Between the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) forcing Alan Cox to censor the Linux Kernel changelog, [2] Microsoft calling viruii “Industrial Terrorism” [3] (no doubt using the September 11^th attacks [4] for publicity), the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) wanting to see every packet [5], any article about the SSSCA (Let's hope this Constitution thang goes away soon) [6], and unreasonable searches when going to and from work [7] I'm afraid to say anything, much less step outside the door of the condo here.
Whatever happened to “News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.”? Or does this mean I should pull my head out of the sand?
[2] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/172200
[3] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/1712226
[5] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/22/1728255
[6] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1415241