Wired’s Noah Schachtman is rightly concerned with the Bush administration’s proposal to create a Total Information Awareness System (TIA) and can’t help to draw the conclusion that recent attempts of the US administration

“… to peer into the lives of Americans were more than a little similar to the exploits of Middle Earth’s would-be rulers.”

Hmm, maybe the world should pay more attention to W’s wedding ring or the gold on Condi’s fingers…