Silicon Valley Stuff – November 6, 2006

Bomb Explodes at eBay Headquarters in San Jose

As the trick or treaters were getting ready to go out on Halloween, PayPal employees were running out of their building in San Jose.

Story by CBS 5 here

Thanks to Valleywag – read exclusive IM’s from an eBayer inside the building here.

The United States Election 2006

Odd, but the US elections are held on a week day.  This Tuesday in fact – November 7 2006.

All you need to know from the Washington Post here. 

Ars Technica has a novel story: “How to steal an election by hacking the vote”

Defamation and the Internet

It seems that Australia has managed to make some changes to defamation law – this occured in 2006 and you can find more here at Electronic Frontiers Australia 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (USA) has a lot to say about defamation – check it out here.