News.com reports that Apple mistakenly posted details of the G5 Macs on the Apple Store recently. How does a dual 2GHz machine with 8 GB of memory, 1GHz bus, USB 2.0, and Firewire 800 and 400 sound?

File under People in Glass Houses: It seems Sen. Hatch's website uses JavaScript lifted from a company that charges for such code, c|net's Declan McCullagh reports.

University of Twente in the Netherlands has a 300+ acre wireless hotspot, using 802.11b and a.

Madonna might want to know what the f- you think you're doing with you hands on her, uh, music, but Orrin Hatch is ready to deal. Call it Three Strikes, You're Crashed - Forever.

Internet Archive folks are gearing up for a trip to Egypt, to create an Internet Bookmobile for the Library of Alexandria.

Supremes to Fox: "Once the patent or copyright monopoly has expired, the public may use the invention or work at will and without attribution."

If you're in the Palo Alto area on Wednesday, May 21, stop by Stanford for a talk and demo by Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle and Ashley Rindsberg.

Here's the press release I wrote for the Internet Archive's bookmobile. Basically, bookmobiles are happening in India, in Egypt, in the US, of course. Now there's a new organization, Anywhere Books, devoted to enabling countries in the third world and disadvantaged communities in the U.S. to make their own bookmobiles and bookpods (print on demand stations). We're encouraging donations.

This article on Boycott-RIAA.org is a proposal for a P2P net that 100% consists of creative commons-licensed materials. A good idea!

I just received a press release from Robin Gross of IPJustice that Jon Johansen is being retried in Norway.