Kevin Werbach: “As its now being deployed, ‘broadband’ is too slow, too expensive, too asymmetric, and too restricted to be the driver of economic growth.” [Scripting News]

Ellison Goes With the Wind. Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, is pursuing a new challenge: bringing the America’s Cup home to the San Francisco Bay. By Sharael Feist. [Wired News]

Open BSD now has a non executable stack in it’s current builds [lnk.to]

Speed Metal for Gender Bending Fiction. Theresa Nielsen Hayden notes the Seattle “Literate Metal” band Blöödhag, who sing songs about James Tiptree, Jr. and Ursula K. Le Guin, and other writers. [More Like This WebLog]

The Shame of Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt describes himself as America’s leading Arab ally. Yet his anti-democratic behavior is an embarrassment to Washington and an affront to his own people. [New York Times: Opinion]

HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication [Slashdot]