Twist is in:
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).
“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?
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.
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).
Ian sums up the AOL/Microsoft deal (see Mozillazine for more coverage).
Nullsoft has just released WASTE (mirror). See /. discussion. Still processing, but it seems like the Nullsoft guys have very much been thinking in a similar direction as I have been, although basically going for a OSS Groove thing – unfortunately, it looks like the protocol isn’t built for scaling (they mention 10-50 nodes).
- VW Transparent Factory (awesome)
- Chandler in Higher Education – “Westwood”
- Apple Updates, Cripples iTunes – interesting discussion, see also: Cory’s post
- GlennF responds to Qualcomm’s memo
- QT slideshow of exhibition [870KB] friends’ senior show I missed
- starbucks picture policy
- SARS virus animation
- Clinton commencement @ Syracuse
I may not be blogging for a while, certainly not until I get my home connection back up (and hopefully getting something setup on the ol’ server)
In the meantime, if you like this blog, you might like some of these:
For some reason my cable at home has been on the fritz, so for the first time in recent memory, I’ve been without Internet access (been taking advantage of the hiptop, am currently on-campus enjoying a very nice day – in the shade of course, so I can see the screen).