Religion of Peace? Prove It. (Jonah Goldberg editorial) [NRO]

What would Mohammed do?. Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the “haters of beauty” behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a “pro-sexuality” religion. [Salon.com]

Contraception ‘key to poverty trap’ [BBC News]

Russell Beattie reviews the Genecast RSS-to-NNTP gateway. Apparently it works. Good news. [Scripting News]

Bush Restoring Cash Bonuses for Appointees. The White House will make several thousand political appointees eligible for lucrative cash bonuses, abandoning a Clinton-era prohibition. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Politics]

Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties. jonerik writes “According to this story from Ananova, Finland’s Supreme Court has ruled that taxi drivers must pay royalty fees of about $20 annually if they … [Slashdot]

Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?. Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government’s Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization. [Salon.com]

The DiIulio Letter talks about how policy is made in the Bush whitehouse.

Windows costs less than Linux. A bit. Sometimes – MS study. But you don’t want to use it as a web server. Oops… [The Register]

Top Ten New Copyright Crimes [LawMeme]