Ian sums up the AOL/Microsoft deal (see Mozillazine for more coverage).
Category: Legacy
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).
Ever get that feeling when you stand up real quick and it seems like all your blood isn’t quite making it to your head and you get sorta dizzy?
Anyway, when you’re feeling like that just in general, it’s a good idea to try to go to sleep early. At least you’ll be up bright and early, so you can enjoy the nice ‘pit in your stomach’ feeling.
Last bit of autobiographica: I swung by McDonald’s last night for the first time in months. I ate a quarter-pounder combo while reading Fast Food Nation. I think this counts as my first literal cheese sandwich post.
“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:
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.