The Charles Street Reconstruction Project is in progress. If you have a stake in Charles Street from 29th Street to University Parkway, you should chime in.

Public comments are being accepted through July 7th. Please take a minute to submit comments. Mark Counselman had some interesting suggestions. You may want to contact him. I've asked for permission to post his notes here.

Baltimore is considering a bill about bicycles on the sidewalks. This is bill CC, which has a hearing coming up.

The efforts of the Columbia Amateur Radio Club for Field Day 2004 got a nice article in the Howard County Times.

There are also a great series of comments on the NPRM on Broadband over Powerline Internet.

The DX-List E-Mail Reflector reports, "One of the best-known names in cinematic as well as Amateur Radio circles, actor Marlon Brando, died in Los Angeles July 1 at age 80. Known to hams worldwide as KE6PZH and FO5GJ, Brando is listed on the FCC database as Martin Brandeaux."

I discovered this week that not many people in the security community trust the Organization for Internet Safety and think that it exists only to discredit a diverse open security research community in favor of a business-friendly model.

Back on the Charles Village discussion list, it looks like things are going to shit:

June 24, 2004: A Margaret Brent teacher who was watching her class in the 26th St. playground was held up by a man with a gun. This occurred at about 2p.m. with the children present.

A car on the unit block of 26th St. was broken into, part of a rash of car break-ins that have been occurring.

Christian on the list reports on July 5, 2004 that "This afternoon we were visited due to the incident I reported earlier today and learned, that there have been at least 10 cars vandalized each day, for the last three weeks. Makes you worry a little. These take place from what I understand between 1 a.m., to 6 a.m. "

The city has also reportedly decided to up the fines and penalties for failure to comply with sanitation tickets.

More lovely news from the Transportation Security Administration, Wired News reports that "Delta, Continental, America West, JetBlue and Frontier Airlines secretly turned over sensitive passenger data to Transportation Security Administration contractors in the spring and summer of 2002."

Also, your Internet Service Provider has every legal right to read your e-mail.

Back on the plane, don't forget that terrorists write bad prose. Or something like that.

• Baltimore City Lengthens Yellow-Light Time
• BPD Officer Brian Winder shot and killed
• Patent hit list
• Two Hundred and Twenty Eight Years
• Playa del Fuego history updated
• United Nations and Food for Oil
• Reply from the United Nations
• Camel Spiders
• Massive forfeiture take in marijuana bust
• A Pentium 4 is a dangerous weapon
• Kerry chooses Edwards as running mate
• Roaches
• Can of Worms
• Disclaimer
• Belvedere Square Revival
• From the mind of a player
• Proximity cards hacked
• A Packrat's Path to Indian Past
• One of the creators of ASCII dies
• How to Read Your "Opt-Out" Notices
• Some New York crimes that require DNA samples are misdemeanors
• Election day cancelled for terror?
• Administration Tries to Rein In Scientists
• Experimental National Digital Forecast Database XML Web Service
• FCC's Powell Won't Stay, Some Speculate
• Fed. Appeals Court reverses significant parts of the FCC's new Media Ownership Rules
• Dewey defeats Truman
• How to dispose of a body
• Canadian kids hate us
• John Ashcroft wants more access to consumer records
• Boone, PA expresses official disapproval in USA Patriot Act
• Some TSA screeners steal stuff from passengers
• Politicians lie, so deal with it
• The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
• Cisco Training Manual
• Sibel Edmonds and retroactive classification
• Art: Famous or unknown
• Government computers are far too fragile for the tough questions
• Respect for flag
• The first consumer Wi-Fi phones are a little like dancing bears

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