Pictures of friends and the street from Pride 2006. (I think they're work safe, but there is some of the beefcake that was displayed in public yesterday.)

Sandie Bryant called for the C3B class Harlan has been nurturing since January. Wonderful, exhausting, humbling, exhilarating, fun! fuzzygruf (squaredancing) and redozdachs were 2 of the ten dancers. More photos.

It's not exactly Paul Revere-worthy, but I am pleased to see that the Chronicle's story on AT&T's new privacy policy that I submitted at digg.com has hit a nerve.  It reached the front page of the site this afternoon. This is only story I've sent in to digg.  Kinda cool.

David Lazarus reports in today's Chronicle that "AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.'" If customers don't stop using AT&T's service, the company says that it can give to the government, sell, or do whatever they want with your call and Internet browsing history. They can do this, they say, because their new policy says that who we call or what we do on the Internet [...]

When fans substitute their idol’s public life for their own real life, the result can be mesmerizing, starkly depressing, banally weird, and even occasionally salvific. Yesterday’s double bill of For the Love of Dolly and Camp Michael Jackson gave the audience more creepy, revelatory, and celebratory moments than reasonable.  The afternoon show’s two documentaries, part of Frameline’s 30th Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender film festival, focused on the fans of Dolly Parton and Michael Jackson. While the films each dealt with over-the-top, true fanatics, the level of discomfort I felt watching the films was significantly different.  […]

The President says our plan is to train Iraqis and to turn over security operations to the local forces.  In furtherance of that goal, in late March the U.S. Army commander at Camp Taji decided to involve the Iraqi unit it was training to help clear a near-by city of insurgents. According to an article in today's Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the U.S. commander, Col. James Pasquarette, and his American staff developed a cleansing plan without consulting the Iraqis who had local knowledge. The Americans then invited the two ranking officers of the Iraqi army into a briefing where: The two Iraqi officers [...]

From AP: "Coffee may counteract alcohol's poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrhosis, researchers say. In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent." This is the kind of news that really should be kept from me! read more | digg story