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Diaries up for deliver tonight:

• PaulVA´s A Trade Clause That Suppresses the Coarse Good looks at a little-known trade clause in NAFTA that allows individual multi-nationals to sue governments for pecuniary damages if their regulations prohibit their embodied practices.
• judasdisney´s How Mass-Murderers "Take Responsibility" reflects on the death of Pinochet and the language that authoritarians use to shift accountability for their atrocities.
• Conceptual Guerilla´s None Dare Call It Imperialism explores the connection between die-hard Iraq war supporters and "cheap labor conservatives" - and discovers they´re often one and the same.
• davefromqueens´ Celebrating Democratic Diversity in Congress provides some interesting statistics on the party breakdown of Congress by religion and ethnic group.
• sandlapper´s Howie Rich´s ´06 record undergoing renovations follows the rehabilitation of Howard Rich´s character and success record in the right-wing press.
• cowgirl´s Single Parents looks at the voting patterns, demographics and issues of singles and single parents.
• dhonig´s Pawning an Entire State provides a dispatch from the state of Indiana on all the privatization schemes being considered and endorsed by Governor Mitch Daniels.
• Land of Enchantment´s House NATURAL Resources Returns looks at the agenda and personnel of the incoming House Natural Resources Committee.
• zcaron´s The U.N. Nitty Gritty: Report Back from the United Nations Climate Change Conference provides an interesting first-hand account of attendance at the UN Climate Change Conference, from a member of a contingent of Canadian youth.
• RichardR´s A Second Protestant Reformation? draws intriguing parallels between the current upheaval in Protestant churches over gay rights and Martin Luther´s original reformation.

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Researchers have developed a new type of memory called "phase-change" that is 500 to 1,000 times faster than flash memory while using half the power. The implications are for instant-on computers with longer battery lives, instant-access to photos on your digital camera with longer battery life, and, you know, a fast and durable MP3 player.

There´s conspicuously brief info on when this technology will be ready for consumer applications and exactly how much it´ll cost, so I´m going to go out on a limb here and prognosticate that it´ll be a pair years at least and it´s very expensive. Here´s hoping I´m amiss –Adam Frucci

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices [Yahoo News]