DEAN DATA UPDATE: Aziz Poonawalla reports that the Dean user data weren’t sold — they were just given away. “I had assumed that Deanlink data was indeed private, and when I registered there was no indication in their privacy statement that I was putting myself on an open database accessible by unprotected feeds. At the very least, DFA had a duty to share the details of how Deanlink operated with more transparency.”

CAPT. ED says that the new Libertarian Party presidential nominee is a disaster who thinks Congress works for the President. But Al Barger likes him: “Badnarik’s not much of a politician- but I don’t care, and don’t think it’ll hurt us.”

UPDATE: More thoughts at Catallarchy.

BLOGS’ IMPACT ON BIG MEDIA: An interesting column by Mark Glaser in the Online Journalism Review. And here’s a lengthier article on the same topic by Rachel Smolkin in the American Journalism Review.

But am I really a “moody maestro?” I think I’m pretty even-tempered. At least by Internet standards!

UPDATE: Daniel Drezner has survey data on which blogs are read by Big Media folks. And Jeff Jarvis has some related stuff. And this John Leo column relates to a hypothesis offered by Drezner.

ALPHECCA has a Memorial Day photo essay up.

UPDATE: Eric Olsen has Memorial Day thoughts. More here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Jeff Quinton rounds up Memorial Day posts from around the blogosphere.

And here’s a comprehensive guide on how to support the troops — from all the Coalition countries, not just America — presented by Winds of Change.

MORE: Gerard van der Leun has a moving post on the name on the stone.

CAPITALISTS DON’T TAKE HOLIDAYS: Or, at least, this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up, despite the holiday.

UPDATE: A reader from Sullivan & Cromwell emails (from the office, natch) that capitalists don’t take holidays — and neither do their lawyers! How well I remember. . . .

THIS WEEK’S IRAQI BLOG ROUNDUP, The Carnival of the Liberated is up. As always, it’s well worth reading. Read this, too.

MORE NEWS FROM THE SUDAN:

Arab militia use ‘rape camps’ for ethnic cleansing of Sudan

In Darfur, Sudan’s western-most region, the people remain untouched by last week’s peace agreement signed between the country’s Islamic government and Christian rebels. Sudanese soldiers and the government-backed Janjaweed militia still terrorise, and at the centre of their campaign of “ethnic cleansing” is a policy of systematic rape designed to drive civilians from their settlements.

And yet Sudan is on the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and nobody seems to care much about what’s happening in Darfur. Can’t we send these people guns, or something?

UPDATE: Tacitus has thoughts on what’s going on, and what should be done.

ROGER SIMON ON TOM FRIEDMAN: An interesting post.

SOME MEMORIAL DAY PHOTOGRAPHY: Here’s a gallery of photos from the World War II Memorial in Washington. Here’s a gallery — and here’s another — from two different photographers at the Moffett Field Air Show. And here’s a collection of Fleet Week images.

Lileks has one, too.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse: “Personally, I owe my own life to the Army and the smell of coffee, but to be more like my mother, I shouldn’t tell it as a personal story: There was a war. People did what had to be done.”

Mudville Gazette has a collection of milblog Memorial Day links. Check ’em out.

And go read this Memorial Day request from CPT Patti. If you can help, do.