Claim Your Cell Phone Number!.  Fight for Your Cell Phone Rights NOW “One of the things users hate most about cellular service is that the telephone number belongs to the carrier, not to the customer. This means that changing carriers also means changing your phone number. That's supposed to change on Nov. 24, when new [...]

Notes and Tips: Internet Cafe Box. Longtime modem manufacturer Zyxel is now selling an Internet cafe solution in a box. [MacInTouch]

Notes and Tips: PoS Solutions. We've got some good tips about point-of-sale solutions for the Mac. [MacInTouch]

The road to hell. How the protection of law was lost is a fascinating piece about the state of the modern American justice system.  It begins with a consideration of the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and a brief history of how previous attempts at financial regulation have lead to this point.  As the article says: Reformers [...]

Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search. A good overview of the current state of the art in combining taxonomies and search from Jeff Morris in Transform magazine. Combining taxonomy and classification with search gives people a map of the resources available to them. This kind of taxonomy, classification and search combination is becoming essential [...]

FBI Systems still years behind corporate America. Baseline Magazine was one of the publications we met with on our recent press tour. They’re an interesting, and as near as I can tell, unique publication in that they focus exclusively on case studies for content, and try extraordinarily hard to document large implementations, warts and all. [...]

Office space. No, not the movie — the concept. Joel on Software has an outstanding overview of how they just built their new office environment. Thinking out how space is used is criminally ignored. I just had to spend a half hour this morning rearranging my desk because there’s no easy way to get a [...]

Where Did Dewey File Those Law Books?. Who knew that someone owned the Dewey Decimal System? Apparently not the owners of the Library Hotel, nestled in the shadow of the New York Public Library. By Michael Luo. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Is Democracy Broken?. Should it really cost $200 million to run for President? At what point does the fundraising mean more than the ideas? There's been a huge shift in the way the Internet has affected marketing of all types, and now, for the first time, we're seeing it have an impact on politics. Howard [...]

Insecure electronic voting. Are you angry and upset about easily hacked electronic voting systems with no audit trail? You should be. This Salon article lays out the problems with the Diebold system very clearly. Get mad. [Ceejbot]