July 26, 2004

From [boing-boing](http://www.boingboing.net/): This excellent piece of short speculative fiction presented as a video clip depicts pizza ordering in a near-future United States. [Link](http://www.aclu.org/pizza/) *(Thanks [Patricio](http://hitchcock.tv)! )* [[boing-boing](http://www.boingboing.net/)]

This weekend in Las Vegas, the world's largest hacker convention, DEFCON, will be taking place. As opposed to what t[he register says,](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/26/defcon_preview/) there will mostly be drinking and more drinking. [[the register uk](http://www.theregister.co.uk/)]

The red berets are [back in effect](http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-angels26jul26,0,6417883.story?coll=ktla-newslocal-1) in LA with conditional support from the LAPD. The condition is that they should stay away from areas that have dangerous gang activity.