Welcome to Bush Is Lord.
[bushislord.com]

open-source interface for ISBN retrieval
[www.isbn.org.uk]

Many online booksellers provide an ISBN lookup service, but the bibliographic information on the results page is mixed in with the graphics, text and code required to provide for the sale of the book. Some companies provide access to the raw ISBN data on CD-ROM but charge for updates etc.

www.isbn.org.uk attempts to provide a simple method for retrieving information about a book from just the ISBN or EAN barcode and without requiring any user software or licence. It is intended to provide assistance for online libraries, user groups or individual users.

Interviewing Your Next Boss
[estherderby.com]

I might need this soon.

Good hiring managers don t just look for skills. They look for a good fit between the candidate s work-style preferences and the culture of the group, and so should you. Before you go looking for your next job, do what the hiring manager is doing: Don t just think about the on paper aspects of the job; consider how you prefer to be managed. Analyze what you want in an employee in this position manager of you.

Think about past managers you ve worked really well with. What made that relationship work? How about bosses you didn t click with? What were some of the factors that made the relationship difficult? Identify what factors will knock a potential boss out of the running for you.

US extraditing DRM-breaker
[www.boingboing.net]

US justice agencies allege that Griffiths, whose online name was BanDido, was the ringleader of an internet group called DrinkOrDie (DOD). Its members played a global game of one-upmanship with manufacturers, cracking security codes and reproducing software, games and music worth $US50 million ($A70.2 million).

It is not claimed that 41-year-old Griffiths, who is unemployed, made any money from the alleged piracy.

blow your own horn?
[genebob.blogspot.com]

I find this one truly hard to believe; that Teamsters are being used to watch for terrorism on the roads? Really?

See Gene’s blog for the links.

There’s now a website for all those semi-trailer drivers who are spying on the population: HighwayWatch.com (this website may contain something other than the link to the Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center, but it’s not obvious).

The lie that killed my son
[film.guardian.co.uk]

Lila Lipscomb believed in Bush’s case for war in Iraq. But when her son died in action, her faith in the American way was shattered. Emma Brockes meets the Michigan mother at the heart of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11

LA plans cybercafe teen curfew
[www.theregister.co.uk]

Los Angeles is to impose a curfew on kids into cybercafes because the venues have become a popular hangout for truants and the focus of serious youth violence in the city. Cybercafes (or PC baangs) with more than five machines will need a police license must install video cameras for security under regulations put forward in Los Angeles City Council yesterday.