Software that Sucks
“How sad to see two leading Democrats fall for, even feed the lie that they can create user-oriented software…
News Update
Jon Johansen has a new blog called “So sue me”. I find this hilarious. Subscribed. (Best of all, it’s running…
Quickly
Anyone have a copy of Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if I’ll ever have $100 to spend on…
p2p is not a crime
You can see Cory Doctorow explain the problems with the Berman Bill while his host subscribes to the EFF Action…
miller reminds you to think when you link
The Toaster Tinkers or What’s Wrong With Proprietary Software is an article I wrote about the analogy between software hackers…
you can’t handle the x-height!
Best of luck to the plaintiffs and everyone who has helped them. The oral argument is October 9th. Keep…
rabbit, rabbit
Rael Dornfest: Rael’s Gold Box. A hilarious poem about the aura, the temptation, the hard sell marketing that is the…
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…
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:…
blue gene
Ka Wai Tam has a neat idea for protecting access to their homepage: a ThinkLink. NetTopBox Status Report TPC 2002…
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.…
[insert something witty here]
Jeremie Miller of Jabber has a weblog. The Doctor (Demento) is in (on the radio). The true story of the…
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…
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…
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…
smiling dogs
Behind the Scenes: The Minority Report Trailer Who knew that making trailers could be so funny? The W3C’s XML Activity…
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:…
a verry merry unbirthday
An exclusive interview with Morbus Iff, “blog” in the OED and a new version of Razor.
you’re losing whuffie, buddy
DW on XML complexity, six degrees of Cory Doctorow, The End of Cost and our accessible friends.
not affiliated with Joan Baez
Patenting your son and serializing hash trees.
everybody’s doing the twist
Videoblogging, Audioblogging, Brother-watching, DRM helmets and words to avoid.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Steve Jobs’s son, blogging tools, FTP-based sharing and weblog ordering.
Other
Today’s phenomic word: apertified. Mailing list haiku: please, no attachments / plain text, not HTML / trim off all you…
Other
James has a simple rant for you. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Humming is theft. What would life be…
Other
QuickTime Broadcaster is here. AaronSw TV is coming. Learn How BitTorrent Works. Headline News? Try Headline Haikus. [via jwz]…
Other
Don Norman: Toilet Paper algorithms [via Lee] Mark Bernstein: Alife 2: Choosing Weblog Topics Blogroots is on the way, apparently.…
Other
Brits have money in sofas. Californians have fingerprint readers at McDonalds. Americans have an FBI that wastes money and invades…
Other
Ftrain: Google Search, 12:35 AM: Online, revenge is forever Mercury News: Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves Fray: Star Wars Memories…
Others
War Driving with OS X: ApScan, MacStumbler [via wmf] Speed Download [via Lemke] I don’t need my downloads to be…
Commentary
re: [the photos], are you doing some Harrumph-wannabe thing? :-)…
Mysteries of the Web Archive
The DaveNet site is down, so I went to the Web Archive (as usual) but found something strange: Why does…
Other
George Scriban: Price fixing since 1996 caused CD sales slowdown (also: price-fixing lawsuit) Dan Bricklin: Impressions after riding a Segway…
Other
Google: St. Patrick’s Day, Google News [via kottke] Question: Is there a Google Weblog? I want to know all the…
Other
Small pieces loosely joined, which don’t deserve their own weblog entries. Hack of the Day: Aaron’s Do The Right Thing.…