All of the "mainstream media" seem to have discovered "cyber war" about 10 years too late. There's a new version of Eudora, the classic e-mail program, but it looks a lot like Thunderebird. Now that I own a Kindle, I've started thinking (again) about the lunacy of digital rights management (DRM). In Short Circuits, AOL buys TechCrunch and Microsoft's Patch Tuesday hits another all-time high.