on Steve Kurtz in the form of an email from Steve to Joi, reprinted with permission: Email from Steven Kurtz. Read the comments on Joi’s site as well.

from my friends at CTHEORY: CAE Defense Fund. And they’re trying to tell us that the Patriot Act hasn’t led to hysteria in the US.

Fahrenheit 911 has premiered in Cannes and the reviews are in. From Yahoo: Moore Lets Bush Be Star of ‘Fahrenheit’, and review from the BBC. In the Yahoo article, note that Miramax is said to have bought the film back from Disney and is seeking distribution for this summer.

Cory Doctorow has posted an eloquent homage to Peter Ackroyd’s wonderful book, London: the Biography, which I am currently reading. The only problem is that last week I also received Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, and so the two wonderful books are duking it out for my attention, which is limited to begin with.

As if I didn’t have enough to read already, what are you reading?

writer and actor Spalding Gray’s body has been found in the East River. He disappeared in January.