is it rabbittime already?
Dan J. Bernstein on time: “Don’t contribute to the Y10K problem! Thanks to my lobbying, Internet mail messages are now…
i love it when a plan comes together
Ever wondered what was in the blank space in Escher’s Print Gallery? The answer, as this awesome movie shows is…
pay up for free software
Auerbach Wins All! Woohoo! Somehow I got on this list where NASA saids me illegal things there employees have done…
irby nation
Lots of new O’Reilly books. I bought IP Routing today. There’s also IPv6 Essentials (the snail book!), OpenSSL, Creating Applications…
movable code
It’s neat that Stallman went to see Raph. The most interesting thing I learned at the conference was how human…
Eyesight Feedback
Thanks to everyone who responded to my piece on eyesight. I’d like to share some of the emails I received…
get out of my hair
Is my Blog HOT or NOT?. A clever way to spread your meme: force participants to link to you. ACLU:…
OSCON: Final Night
My stay at OSCON ended short but my last night was by far the best time I had. At Writing…
Carl Malamud: NetTopBox
Carl Malamud’s giving a status report on the NetTopBox project. (Slides, O’Reilly Page)…
blue gene
Ka Wai Tam has a neat idea for protecting access to their homepage: a ThinkLink. NetTopBox Status Report TPC 2002…
RMS and Miguel: Straight Talking
Stallman has quite a bit of humopr about himself and his positions even if he’s serious about his ideals. They…
HelixCommunity.org
At lunch RobG and TimO discussed the new helixcommunity announcements. A new thing announced today was that Helix would be…
Guido van Rossum: State of the Python Union
Guido’s going to talk about the state of Python. O’Reilly Page. Full coverage is below….
Richard Stallman: Where This All Came From
Richard Stallman says we don’t talk about and fight for our freedom enough. (O’Reilly Page) Full coverage is below….
Larry Lessig: Freeing Culture
Larry Lessig says that we’re not active enough politically and if we don’t do anything our freedoms will be taken…
free larry
Sat down next to JimW by accident. Met DJ Adams in the elevator. Met Sam Ruby in the hallway. The…
plane day
randomfoo has MP3s from conferences sessions. The TAP Software Kit has been released. TAP, if you haven’t heard, is a…
everyone looks like me
Boston Globe on “Knowledge Couplers”, computer-aided medical diagnosis. This kind of thing was discussed way back in Gelernter’s Mirror Worlds….
OSCON Bloggers
I’ll be heading to OSCON soon and I’d like to keep track of other bloggers. Let me know if you’ll…
[insert something witty here]
Jeremie Miller of Jabber has a weblog. The Doctor (Demento) is in (on the radio). The true story of the…
A cure for nearsightedness?
I had some time to kill this morning so I decided to work on improving my eyesight. I sat down…
loose clothes == loose morals
Google Search: “Although we’re proud of our products, services, and technology, nothing matches the pride we have in our staff.”…
you may already have one
I’m getting lots of OSCON spam all of the sudden. I guess someone’s spamming the Who’s Who list. Theodore Gray…
i’m not dead yet
Since Hyatt loves Blake so much, maybe he can get me a job at Apple. Or at least let me…
Reflections on the Keynote
Today was a very interesting keynote. There wasn’t a lot of hardware, but I’m much more interested in the software…
empty jaguar-skin wallet
This is an awesome T-Shirt. Hm, with all this press Carl must have plants at the Times. But maybe he…
MacWorld Keynote Coverage
I’m watching the MacWorld New York 2002 Keynote — MPEG4 stream crashes QuickTime, guess I’ll file a bug report. Hey,…
confessions of a time-waster
Looks like iTools is down for the .mac transition. I’m listening to the Apple’s Earnings Call and all I can…
temperature rising
TidBits: Collatoral Spammage 2002 - How much spam do you get? I just rewatched the Apple 1984 commercial and noticed…
the circle of life continues
I wonder if it’s just me, but I’m seeing a lot of project-oriented wikis popping up. Maybe wikis are hitting…
smiling dogs
Behind the Scenes: The Minority Report Trailer Who knew that making trailers could be so funny? The W3C’s XML Activity…
Public Speaking and Writing
I enjoyed Plover’s Conference Presentation Judo. I especially like how he gets rid of the repeat yourself three times thing….
today’s featured superhero: Seth Schoen
I could tell you all about Seth Schoen but you could probably get everything you need to know just from…
OSCON Key Signing Party
I think it’s awful that OSCON doesn’t have a scheduled key signing party. I thought about submitting it as a…
Writing Useful Web Content
Jorn Barger remains one of the foremost authorities on writing useful web content and annotational pages. This is one of…
Glorious Linkfulness
Justin Hall wonderfully explains why I hate BoingBoing’s linking straightjacket. (Heh, Cory’s not a blogger but a posting-agent.) Wow, Justin…
after a busy day of overthrowing governments…
I find it pretty funny that Google thinks my PGP key is in German and offers to translate. I know…
locked up all alone
LINUX! Ask me how you can help take over ICANN. Carl: a free software-run registry makes new innovation possible BobF:…
Building Baked Sites
Bake, Don’t Fry has been one of my more successful blog entries. I wonder if this was because of style…
Train Dream
I’m interested in the study of dreams (ala Feynman) so I think I’ll write up the ones that I can…
Bake, Don’t Fry
I really got started with this whole Web mess with the ArsDigita Prize where I learned how to build database-backed…
Gnutella Pioneer Gene Kan Dies at 25
“The cause of death was a perforating gunshot wound to the head,” the San Mateo County Coroner spokeswoman said. “It…
No!
I’m loving They Might Be Giants new album, “NO!”. It’s purportedly for kids, but it’s got clever lyrics and fun…
Special Gifts
I checked outside and there was a package from Eastgate. What could this be? I wondered. They’d already sent me…
Herodotus: A Peer-to-Peer Web Archival System
Timo Burkard has created Herodotus: A Peer-to-Peer Web Archival System as his Master’s Thesis. The paper (PDF or PS) describes…
Another thing cooking
Mark Bernstein has started Weblog Kitchen, a “collaborative site, powered by Wiki and Tinderbox, dedicated to serious thinking about weblog…
Sloganeering
Don Marti: “Keep your management off of my digital rights.” [via Seth] Aaron Swartz: “It’s not intellectual property, it’s intellectual…
today’s featured superhero: Brad Templeton
It seems fitting that for the day we celebrate our freedom, the superhero is Brad Templeton, Chairman of the EFF…
Freedom, Independence
Must read: Declaration of Independence. “He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository…
Reevaluating Copyright
Stallman provides a clear and intelligent summary of why copyright should be scaled back on the Internet. ‘By contrast, copying…
Debunking the Debunkers
Salon: Debunking Deep Throat’s debunkers A hilarious account of attempting to renact the actions of deep throat. “Author’s note: Havill…
Today’s Hack: html2text Converter
My new html2text Converter (Python source) will convert any HTML web page into gloriously plain ASCII text. URI: Well, enjoy….
Putting an End to ICANN
John Gilmore: Open Letter to Vint Cerf, ICANN Chair. “ICANN is going down, one way or another. Either it will…
Recursive Blogging
Matthew Langham is presenting on blog aggregation at OSCON and doing something I thought should have been done a while…
Introducing Memesh
I’m still chugging along on my Cocoa app, which I decided to name “Memesh” (a cross between the fabled Memex…
Introducing web.resource.org
I’m proud to announce that I launched a new site today, web.resource.org/. There’s not much there now, but I hope…
Web Roundup
This hypertext representation of a real house is one of the more exciting things I’ve seen on the Web lately….
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