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"<a href="http://www.moscode.com/">It's a romantic amp</a>," he says. "Just right for you."

Of course, being cats, Huckleberry and Bagheera said it to my luggage, not me.

One of my most pleasant memories from living in Santa Fe was cruising the back road to Albuquerque to visit Brian Damkroger for the first time in John Atkinson's classic Mercedes ragtop. Naturally, it started to rain and we had to pull off the road and wrestle his roof back onto the car. <I>All this Mercedes mechanical sophistication and we still have to do this by hand?</I> I thought.

Jon Iverson got the following email from one of our heroes, the Electronic Freedom Foundation's (EFF) Fred von Lohman.

An interesting treatise on anonymity in the Internet age. How much surveillance is too much? How much freedom from it is excessive? If we don't think these questions through for ourselves, somebody else might come up with answers that aren't palatable.

Rushing to get the last bits of the March issue out the door, with just "Letters to the Editor" left to proof, and: