“The FBI has been reading my diary” – A student is mistakenly targeted as an investigation blurs the line between local and federal law enforcement.

What’s particularly ridiculous is the gestapo tactics used (surprise, surprise – I mean, sig heil!), and well, the sheer incompetence of it all. They brought in the student because of a blog entry entitled “Somebody Hacked the Gibson.” No wonder cybercrime is such a huge problem; 90% of the brownshirts are morons who know more about bullying than technology.

Oh, and these “FBI” officers? Actually Chapel Hill Police officers. Where are the laws to protect us from them?

Pastry – A scalable, decentralized, self-organizing and fault-tolerant substrate for peer-to-peer applications. Project of Antony Rowstron @ Microsoft Research. See also: FreePastry, an OSS implementation (Java, BSD-like license).

Twist is in:

• New Sony Clie prototype (close-up)
• Panasonic FOMA P2102V
• see also: Sharp Zaurus SL-C700

Ahh, deriving a certain satisfaction about this whole SCO mess. (Cringely summarizes – better than a soap opera!)

The Harvard of Interactive – a glowing writeup of NYU’s ITP. I’ll have to admit, the classes sound like fun: “The Future of the Infrastructure,” “Creative Microcomputing,” “Information Architecture,” “The Poetics of Virtual Space,” “Contagious Media.”

Holy crap this is awesome.

Starting to EAC some CD’s again. See sidebar for latest additions.

Brad with a post on scaling LJ. I spoke w/ Brad one night about some of this stuff at this past SXSW (he has a sweet deal w/ F5), but it’s good to see where they’re going (see memcache info from lj_dev).

A few intersting notes. Brad mentions the uselessness of pconnects for MySQL, (yes) but goes on to blast InnoDB. From my experience, InnoDB is not only technically superior, but faster speedwise as well (some InnoDB vs MyISAM benchmarks). Also, although improvements have been made, MyISAM still has fugly row-level locking. The main real caveat is that there’s no full text search support current in InnoDB (others: slow counts due to multiversioning, auto-incrementing and table status are funky and other misc ‘stuff’).

Ian sums up the AOL/Microsoft deal (see Mozillazine for more coverage).

Peterme wrote an interesting bit on paths at Berkeley. I can think of at least two examples of this same problem at USC. Chained fences were put up in one location, and the other simply gets re-turfed at regular intervals (when the parents are in town).