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There's all kinds of crazy stuff going with iTunes today. People are reporting broken libraries and songs they can't re-download, and Apple has added a "My Alerts" page to the iTunes store to go along with the e-mail alerts they had previously. It's quite the combination of iTunes 7.1 growing pains and Apple policy.

Google is taking steps to make anonymous the logs it keeps of all searches that people conduct.

Accessible web sites are one opportunity to further empower people—all people. Implementing accessibility is not always easy, and the right attitude is needed to overcome the challenges. Not just that, by just being accessible and standard compliant you gain much more than you might invest for by passing Section 508 and other law requirements.

The Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has just committed a complete privacy blunder. Remember how people used to complain about voter registration and their precinct assignments and all that? Their not–so–brilliant solution: prepare a list of registered voters and post it online. Complete names, birthdates, and addresses included.

Say Bowflex, and many images come to mind: sweaty people on informercials, home gyms with spidery wings, muscular guy folding one up. And the number of different models confusing the mind. Now, they've come up with a new one...