Morning Links

- Interesting Update on the Plame Blame case:

We are now left with a classic Constitutional showdown between the rights of a prosecutor to investigate an alleged crime and the right of the press to protect its sources. The problem for the media is that while the First Amendment protects the right to publish, this case is about the news-gathering process. And going back to Branzburg v. Hayes in 1972, the Supreme Court has never found a special First Amendment privilege that protects reporters from testifying in criminal cases.

Few journalists really understand what the 1st Amemdment actually says. If the judges rule against the journalists - I wonder how people like the Times will manage to wail against "activist judges"?

- Sultans suing Sean (say that five times fast):

"Scarcely, or in any event, no longer 'the sexiest man alive' portrayed in the tabloids and bearing no resemblance to the superspy . . . Connery's appearance and behaviour was that of a rude, foul-mouthed, fat old man".

- 1,161 forever lost to the fire of 9/11

- Potentially the most embarassing tech support call ever