The Mind Trap

Australian Copyright Laws Unworkable -- Google

TelecomAsia: Google is opposing Australia's new copyright laws...
"Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," an official of Google was quoted as saying.

"If such advanced permission was required, the Internet would promptly grind to a halt," Google's senior counsel and head of public policy Andrew McLaughlin told the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee."

Politically Incorrect Italian Wins Award in Iran

Corriere Della Sera: An Italian cartoonist has won a prize in the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri competition aimed at getting back at the infamous Mohummad cartoons by ridiculing the holocaust. His reason? "I thought the subject proposed by the Iranians was particularly stimulating. It gave me the chance to express my thoughts without feeling that I was taking a stance on one side or the other. You see, I'm neither rightwing nor leftwing, let that be clear. But I do adore everything that's politically incorrect."
Some of the cartoons are here.
The winner is here.
There's an article about the unauthorized entry of a Leunig cartoon here.