Boing Boing: University of Kansas threatens to permantly lock downloading students out of its network

Students at the University of Kansas who are accused of "downloading copyrighted material" will have their network access permanently terminated. Presumably this means that even downloading "fair use" works (mashups, etc), looking at web-pages, or even getting your profs' lectures is disallowed

Ouch, and KU once had a semi-open policy about P2P networks and such. KU's network especially the RESNET side of things has always sucked. Spreading viruses around campus like wild fire, and not managing bandwidth correctly. KU solution at the time was to turn off any useful service available, such syncing Exchange servers with students e-mails with Outlook, and many other technologies that would ease data management from classroom and areas of study. But yet, P2P networks where still allowed and viewed as a valuable source to the Academic data structure. Guess not anymore, all the little kids in the dorms sucked down to much bandwidth that poor ass broke KU (State of Kansas) can't afford to leak out.

Official Google Mac Blog: Why Chanute?

If you're in the U.S. and you have a Mac, try this: Launch Google Earth, wait for the zooming to stop, and then press the + button to zoom closer. You'll arrive at the small town of Chanute, Kansas, nestled in the southeast corner of the state. I doubt you've ever noticed this before now. But even if you have, you're probably wondering -- why Chanute?

A Google Mac Blog post about why the Mac version zooms to Chanute, Kansas by default.