September 18, 2000
The rabbit is out of the hat
The rabbit is out of the hat when it comes to frivolous genetic manipulation of living creatures. And he glows in the dark.
Lord, thank you for this.
Lord, thank you for this. Mac users our prayers are being answered. No longer will the plagues of type 11 errors and system freezes rule over the people. The writings is on the wall and it is time for us to reign.
How to tilt at windmills.
How to tilt at windmills. What these guys don't undestand is that Apple can't make money selling software. They develop software so that they can sell the hardware on which it runs, which is their real profit center.
Jakob Nielsen: Internet Guru, (Possible) Inventor of Spam
No Refuge: He fled the war in Congo for America. The I.N.S. greeted him by putting him in jail. -- this week's nyt mag has stories of people who have been in new york city for one year. this one is especially powerful.
Censorship on a public Blog?
Censorship on a public Blog? - When someone posts a link to content that others find shocking to a public blog (in this case Flazoom.com) how should the blog-master handle it. This got me thinking about how we handle the content at MeFi - which is better? Removing the post a few layers, or bereating the poster with lots of mean comment posts?
Pseudo is Dead.
Pseudo is Dead. Shocked, I tell ya, shocked.
Can a corrupt IOC
Can a corrupt IOC spoil the spirit of competition? Is the IOC "...more important than the Catholic Church"?
Wired
Wired has an interesting interview this month with David Boies, chief counsel for Napster and DOJ vs. MS (unfortunately, this link just points to the fact that the content won't be online until 10.10. With the debate about Napster everywhere (including september 16th below), I thought it helped to clarify exactly what Napster's position is. I thought John Perry Barlow's (EFF) essay was helpful as well.
Bookmarklets, Napster, and the Peer-to-Peer Web:
Bookmarklets, Napster, and the Peer-to-Peer Web: Apparently Jason isn't the only one who's discovered nifty uses for bookmarklets. Right now this technology is limited by Javascript interpreters, but could it be as powerful in principle as Mozilla?
Vote Bush!
Frozen body falls from plane en route from Moscow
Frozen
body falls from plane en route from Moscow
Pretty sad story when you think about it, that someone could be so desperate to get to a better world that they would attempt something so dangerous.
Pretty sad story when you think about it, that someone could be so desperate to get to a better world that they would attempt something so dangerous.
The last message of Carlos Caceras, Killed in West Timor
The last message of Carlos Caceras, Killed in West Timor "Three [United Nations High Commission for Refugees] colleagues - Samson Aregahegn, Carlos Caceras and Pero Simundza - have been savagely lynched in West Timor (Indonesia) and their bodies burned by an armed mob." [continued...]
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