It is already impossible to take photos in the New York City region without being viewed and harassed as if anyone with a camera is a terrorist -- now this. While theory you only need permission if you are in groups and you are at the same place for more than half an hour but think about this: when there are no rules against photography or videography the police routinely round people up for this. What will they do when they have some kind of a vague law that they can twist in the way that works best for them?

Brown takes over as the new British Prime Minister earlier this week and a 'terror-car' is found this morning. What a coincidence.

iPhone Launch = Second coming of Christ

As this story and countless others like this are beginning to surface (the toxic trains and the splitting tires) -- seems like there is indeed a high cost of the low prices for junk coming out of China's sweatshops. The world awaits a similar decision on the software junk coming out of countless "not-so-sweatshops" from India.

Wal-mart, are you taking notice? Maybe the $8 DVD players are the reason the movie industry in America cannot produce anything original? Or is that due to the belligerent copyright-theft in 3rd World countries?

Bush vetoed the stem cell bill today. Apparently the commander-in-chief (responsible for over 500,000 deaths and counting ) has moral issues with killing embryos destined for destruction anyway.

You know that you've gone too far in ad placement when you are talking about the horizon and a hyper link shows the Horizon dairy products. The stupid website this time is the generally decent Digital Photography School.

A was reading an article in the New Yorker about an Idol Thief who operated in Jaipur and smuggled thousands of Indian antiquities to collectors in Europe and America sometimes directly and sometimes via large auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's. While it is sort of obvious that he committed a horrible crime, what if you look at it from the perspective of art only. Did he end up contributing to art by saving thousands of these icons from getting lost and forgotten? No one really cares for these things in India anyway so getting them in the hands of folks that do care -- even if in the most pretentious way -- if, one could argue, a great service to art.