2000.02 (Feb)
2000.02.29 (tuesday)
What Can I Do With This Placenta? They appear to be totally serious. I think I’m going to barf:
Placenta Cocktail:
1/4 cup raw placenta
8oz V-8 juice
2 ice cubes1/2 cup carrot.
Blend at high speed for 10 seconds
6:42:00 PM #
New mouse from IBM challenges “wheel mice”:
Instead of a wheel though, the ScrollPoint uses a scroll-stick that offers 360-degree scrolling in any direction. But what sets the pro version apart though is a programmable third button that is preset as the ‘Back’ browser control that automatically returns to the previous link in the browser.
6:38:00 PM #
The importance of being Regis:
Philbin is speaking, as he often does, in exclamation marks, as he shows off the large wall calendar in his dressing room for Millionaire.
6:20:00 PM #
Elvis Costello’s first dozen albums will be available for download online. Excellent! 6:10:00 PM #
Weblogging tip: If more than half of your weblog is made up of entries about your own weblog, you’re doing it wrong.
6:05:00 PM #
Another webscam: Classic Arcade Triva: you can win a $210 gift certificate to buy.com - ends today! 4:43:00 PM #
2000.02.28 (monday)
Felipe!: an enigma…
11:47:00 PM #
Another cassette form-factor MP3 player. This one only has a parallel interface, not USB like the Korean one (below). $249. (via memepool)
2:16:00 PM #
New Dvorak on AMD rumors, new LCD technology, and the insanity of “internet appliances”:
Sunbeam is leading the way here with its new division called Thalia Products. Apparently the company has teamed up with Zilog and a software company to put networking capabilities into all sorts of things. The devices will be networked through the power lines, so the CIA can monitor your blanket and tell when you are in bed in order to sneak in and bludgeon you. Maybe I’m just suspicious. Whatever the case, I never thought I’d need a firewall for a blanket or a toaster!
1:35:00 PM #
New MP3 player from korea fits into a cassette player.
9:31:00 AM #
2000.02.27 (sunday)
Nintendo Dolphin and Game Boy Advance for Q3 2001:
costly licensing fees mixed with an arrival almost one year later than PS2’s 2000 launch do not bode well for Nintendo’s next-generation console.
11:55:00 AM #
WWF Valentine Cards, including double-entendre male-chauvinist/homo-erotic “The Rock” (click for larger versions):
11:03:00 AM #
Ad Critic News: FedEx Pulls ‘Wizard of Oz’ Ad: major overreaction.
They felt it sent the wrong message to young people that it was okay to huff and was fun to huff and to put some sort of gas into your body…
10:43:00 AM #
Finally, I found a picture of the rare Gladiator Voltron!
10:17:00 AM #
SUPER ROBOTS: yellow text on tiled B&W photo = illegible. Some cool toy voltron-style robot pix, though.
10:10:00 AM #
The Sadistic Photo Album: When Sims go bad… 9:52:00 AM #
Crack Aficionado Online
9:48:00 AM #
Vendors plan to force through SDSL standard:
T1 service is a bad deal for everybody, but the phone companies want to slowly deploy DSL service and keep their T1 business intact as long as possible.
9:34:00 AM #
Ad Critic: Bizarro For President
9:10:00 AM #
PocketCD-R: business-card size, 50MB capacity.
8:38:00 AM #
ShapeCD: lots of shapes and capacities to choose from, but no recordables.
8:36:00 AM #
2000.02.26 (saturday)
Zzyzx Road (near Baker, CA):
3:55:00 PM #
Just before a major flare, the radio and hard X-ray emission from Cygnus X-3 drops very low and stays there for days or weeks.” explained McCollough. “It’s as if something is building up before the explosion. This lets us predict major flares. On February 18 the radio emission from Cygnus X-3 dropped to very low levels and it’s stayed there since.
3:27:00 PM #
BBC: Some photos of useless technology from CeBIT: That Xybernaut sounded intriguing, but now that I’ve seen a picture of it, I think its the dumbest thing ive seen in a while. Who is gonna wear one of those dorky “inflatable collar” things around their neck? The watch phone looks dumb too - too much trouble to take it off and put it back on for each call.
1:51:00 PM #
California Researchers Make ‘Bionic Chip’
11:27:00 AM #
Man Killed in Ostrich Attack
11:23:00 AM #
Kibo explains MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
10:58:00 AM #
A “shocked and outraged” Trey Parker speaks out on Fox’s “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” :
What makes a millionaire? I mean, how much was this guy worth? I don’t remember who said that ‘Nowadays, any asshole with a million dollars thinks he’s rich.’ It’s totally true. To be a millionaire now you need at least $4 million, after taxes and other stuff. I wouldn’t wipe my ass with $750,000.
10:44:00 AM #
2000.02.25 (friday)
Thermo material may replace heat sinks, fans in electronic gear:
Today people use bismuth and tellurium alloys to make thermoelectric materials that can drive temperatures down 50°K below the ambient, but by adding cesium we can drive the temperature down from 60° to 100° or even 200°
7:12:00 PM #
Maximum PC: Democrats Get Online Voting:
Although Attorney General Janet Reno has given the green light, a letter from her office to party officials expressed some concerns. The main worry is online voting process would be discriminatory to the poor and minorities, who are statistically less likely to own a computer.
7:00:00 PM #
2000.02.24 (thursday)
Next-Generation Online: Pokemon Stadium Preview:
It doesn’t get much better than seeing a Pikachu drown in a tsunami.
10:31:27 PM #
YOJOE.COM: The 3 3/4″ G.I. Joe Collector’s Site
9:01:27 PM #
waste vital minutes with the PERPETUAL BUBBLEWRAP
8:56:27 PM #
‘Sex in Space’ Author Defends Book: Looks like we’ve been hoaxed…
But the source for the book may be a parody posted on an internet newsgroup as early as 1989, as well as on various humor sites on the World Wide Web.
7:42:27 PM #
2000.02.23 (wednesday)
Celebrity Morgue: Jesse James stereogram
10:25:45 PM #
Just confirmed: Bill Gates will deliver the opening address at Game Developers Conference 2000, further fueling rumours about the introduction of X-Box at GDC. 8:54:45 PM #
Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML):
The Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML /mur’mul/) is a proprietary extension of the HyperText Markup Language. This document, all MRML tags, and any ideas you come up with while reading this information are the exclusive property of the authors. This is an open specification that will be expanded as mind control technology is refined.
6:30:45 PM #
2000.02.22 (tuesday)
SEX IN SPACE?!?! (via drudge): This smells like a hoax, but you never know…
ASTRONAUTS had sex on the American space shuttle - with the full blessing of NASA bosses.
10:03:32 PM #
AMD Athlon at heart of Microsoft X-Box spec:
“The Gigapixel graphics chipset in combination with the Athlon CPU will, apparently, provide the X-Box with enough power to exceed the performance of the Sony PlayStation 2 by six to eight times. Moreover, the Microsoft console will be less expensive and likely to be compatible with existing Windows applications.”
7:46:32 PM #
Jorn Barger: Hacking URLs for fun and profit
7:31:32 PM #
Biggest BSOD ever?
6:53:32 PM #
Dave hits the nail on the head:
I’m still puzzled by what makes some people feel a weblog is “well designed”. Some virtually content-free logs get high marks from people who value “aesthetics”. Being a word guy, I judge by two things.
- First, can I read it? (My eyes are not what they used to be, and I like using the browser’s vertical scrollbar, I hate clicking from page to page to read a story.)
- And second, do they have something interesting to say?
All the cute effects and layout tricks mean very little to me, actually they usually interfere with my ability to read the site. I prefer a plainly laid out site like Flutterby, for example, over (name deleted).
2:11:32 PM #
2000.02.21 (monday)
IEEE’s position opposing adoption of UCITA (via Red Rock Eater)
7:25:13 PM #
PCeXtremist: Pioneer Releases World’s First DVD-Audio Disc 7:18:13 PM #
NASA is considering a spectacular finish for Galileo’s mission to Jupiter: A suicide plunge into the gaseous planet or one of its moons.
7:15:13 PM #
World’s Largest Roadside Attractions: You can own the world’s largest Cowboy Hat and Boots!!! The Washington Department of Natural Resources will give the structures to the first group that can demonstrate that it can move and preserve them. If you don’t have room for them, you can buy a photograph for $200.
4:50:13 PM #
PowerCharger - for overclocking the AMD Athlon processor:
By themselves, AMD Athlons come multiplier locked. This just means that you can’t use your motherboard to adjust that setting. There are two settings which determine the final clock speed of a CPU; bus speed and multiplier. The two combined together gives you the CPU speed. For example, an Athlon 500 has a multiplier set at 5X when it leaves the AMD factory. The CPU was designed to work on a 100Mhz bus. Taking a 100Mhz bus and a 5X multiplier gives us a 500Mhz CPU.
This is where the PowerCharger comes in. The PowerCharger a key that plugs into the gold fingers of the Athlon, allowing you to increase or decrease the multiplier and voltage settings. Being able to adjust the multiplier and leaving the bus speed at 100Mhz mean you won’t be stressing your video card or any PCI devices. The PowerCharger allows you to set the CPU speed from 500Mhz all the way to 1050Mhz.
1:30:13 PM #
Dr. HTML: free single page HTML analysis and validation. Very comprehensive. 10:03:13 AM #
2000.02.20 (sunday)
Whoever made the video decided it needed more credibility for the hosts, and the reassuring second N at the end of Donn’s name and Jim’s thumbs up weren’t enough. So they made up important titles for them. Donn and Jim suddenly became the U.S. National Video Game Team. And to make it official, they bought themselves matching jumpsuits. Fucking jumpsuits.
6:30:13 PM #
BBC News: Thais claim movie marathon record:
Contestants were only allowed to take five-minute rests after every movie and another 15 minutes at the end of three films for meals. They have had to take urine tests in case they tried to cheat by using stimulants and were monitored by an infrared camera to check if they fell asleep.
12:50:13 PM #
NEAR image of the day for 2000 Feb 18 - Eros in 3D 12:42:13 PM #
The Religious Life of Robots
10:08:13 AM #
2000.02.19 (saturday)
She is Canadian: eh?
5:15:14 PM #
Bluetooth for Linux
1:45:14 PM #
CeBIT bans Tom’s Hardware, Register:
CeBIT’s ruling affects online journalists from all over the world, including Dr. Thomas Pabst, CEO of Tom’s Hardware Guide, the world’s biggest hardware review site, with 1.1 million readers per month.
11:13:14 AM #
2000.02.18 (friday)
Watch paint dry. 10:32:14 PM #
We have a prototype which holds an image for two years without power supply. . . This LCD allows turning off power completely, and the image displayed does not change. Power is needed only when the image changes. This means that the LCD will consume very low power.
8:32:14 PM #
2000.02.17 (thursday)
NEAR image of the day for 2000 Feb 17 (B):
This incredible picture of Eros, taken on February 14, 2000, shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end.
11:01:14 PM #
Whenever you find a page you want to link to, you right-click on the page and choose the Manila Express™ menu item.
10:53:14 PM #
Woman jailed after her phone rings in South African court:
Khumalo immediately sentenced her to four hours in the holding cells for contempt of court.
10:48:14 PM #
It looks like Mir may become a orbiting space hotel after all.
Space tourists will be asked to fork out $20 million a head to visit the outpost which measures five school buses in size.
2:11:14 PM #
Excellent moon phase calendar (via bifurcated rivets) 12:32:14 PM #
Mysterious signals probably not from Mars Polar Lander (via drudge)
2:22:14 AM #
ATI buys ArtX: ATI is trying to get back on top of the graphics card market any way they can.
5:47:14 AM #
2000.02.16 (wednesday)
Via crypto-gram, some analysis of Tribal Flood Network and trin00, which was behind the recent wave of Denial of Service attacks. 5:45:33 PM #
The StarShine satellite will be re-entering Earth’s atmosphere 18 Feb.
5:44:15 PM #
See Figure 1: this one is a gem especially for the VMS old-timers/gurus/ex-users/etc.
10:10:10 AM #
2000.02.15 (tuesday)
Freemail Web of Trust: community-driven certification system based on face-to-face ID validation. Finally - a certification service that both actually means something and is free! (via htp’) 11:50:10 PM #
The new interface, known as Serial ATA, pumps out 1.6Gbps…
8:03:10 PM #
Swingin’ Batman Valentine card
11:04:10 AM #
Yahoo has a neat java-applet tax estimator - Update 3 Feb 2001: new link
8:26:10 AM #
2000.02.14 (monday)
To experience Britannica.com, you’ll need a more recent version (version 4.0 or higher) of your Web browser.
I’m using IE 5.0. I wonder how much of their site uses 4.x features. I really wonder how much of that needs 4.0 features. And why would they shut me out? I don’t think the fact that a web browser can’t properly display some dumb java applet is justification for keeping them out of the entire site. And why the hell is it telling me to upgrade when I have a newer version than it suggests???
12:30:10 PM #
via macintouch, reports that the latest beta-test version of Mac OS 9.0.3 apparently has support for redundant power supplies and multiprocessor computers.
11:30:10 AM #
PalmElements: downloadable periodic table for PalmPilot
10:30:10 AM #
0wn3d! (via haddock) 9:30:10 AM #
Kevin Mitnick on recent wave of “hacker” attacks:
If I could talk with the people carrying out these disruptions, I’d tell them that their actions just aren’t the cool thing to do: these attacks aren’t impressive. They require no sophistication.
8:30:10 AM #
NEAR meets with asteriod Eros
7:30:10 AM #
After saying “we’re just about ready” for two years now, distributed.net has finally started their optimal Golomb ruler search.
6:30:10 AM #
PC133 128MB DIMMS drop below $100
5:30:10 AM #
The fascist DVD Fourm f#$&s-up the already incomprehensible DVD recordable specs. DVD-R will never become the standard that CD-R is now with all of these mutaually incompatible formats. 4:30:10 AM #
VIA to enter CPU market with low-cost “Joshua”:
Initial clock speeds are expected to be around 433MHz and 466MHz. . . The new processor is based on the Cyrix Cayenne core, supports a 133MHz front-side bus and will utilize a socket 370 design.
3:30:10 AM #
2000.02.13 (sunday)
McCain may web surf for VP: rumors that McCain, if he wins the nomination, may pick someone from high-tech industry to be his running mate. Among those named: Jeff Bezos, Andy Grove, and Jerry Yang. Too bad Yang isn’t old enough…
11:06:40 AM #
Fat Chicks in Party Hats is exactly the kind of site the internet was intended for. 10:06:40 AM #
Some group in Philladelphia has been distributing how-to guides to hookers.
9:06:40 AM #
MIT autonomous robot design competition
8:06:40 AM #
Charles Shultz died this morning, just as the last Peanuts strip was published. 7:06:40 AM #
2000.02.12 (saturday)
Stand-alone IP phone
8:38:10 PM #
2000.02.11 (friday)
BBC interview with the designers of Hubble’s optics
10:00:31 AM #
The Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-99) was successfully launched at 12:43 EST today. You can see the shuttle with the naked eye as it orbits the earth - check Heavens Above to find out when and where to look in your area. 8:00:31 AM #
Tom Green parades Monica Lewinsky around Ottawa:
It’s the first visit to Ottawa for the 26-year-old Lewinsky, who is in town with Green to make “a big announcement” today at the Little Beaver Restaurant at 320 McArthur Rd.
7:00:31 AM #
2000.02.10 (thursday)
How three-way light bulbs work.
8:33:24 AM #
Cringely has a different take on the recent wave of denial of service attacks:
My postman seems to deliver my U.S. mail anytime between 2-6 p.m. I wish he would be there always at 2 p.m., though 10 a.m. would be even better, but I don’t feel betrayed if he is a little late. Blizzards happen, water mains break, the power goes off and businesses open late or not at all as a result. But if we can’t get to our Yahoo Mail for 90 minutes, it is the end of the world. . . I say have another cup of coffee.
7:33:24 AM #
Shocking displays of cluelessness today: Analysts claim Web Benefits Outweigh Hacker Risks: duh!
According to an survey of 520 Fortune 500 companies conducted by his firm, 114 companies complained of denial of service attacks in 1997. In 1998, that number increased to 129. He is in the process of crunching the numbers for 1999, ”but I’d almost guarantee that the number is going to be even higher,” he said.
This guy is a genius!
6:33:24 AM #
Americans With Disabilities Act Could Be Applied to Internet: I personally think this is a great idea - all they are asking for is designers to use ALT tags on their images, but of course everyone’s paniced. IIRC, “bricks-and-mortar” businesses used arguments similar to these when the ADA was originally proposed:
Many sites will focus on avoiding litigation instead of addressing the real need of disabled net citizens to have access to the valuable content they provide. . . the cost of potential litigation could prevent some Web sites from coming online
I think I can safely say we’re better off without those websites.
5:33:24 AM #
2000.02.09 (wednesday)
The Onion: Mars Lander Staggers Into NASA Headquarters Drunk, Broke and Wal-Mart and the new Sacajawea dollar:
This streamlines the circulation process by starting off U.S. currency in the place it’s all eventually spent.
1:20:37 PM #
David Bowie interview: from October of last year, its a little dated, but there’s still some good stuff there, including some tease details about the upcoming (2002) Ziggy film. (really messy URL)
12:20:37 PM #
The color of the water was very peculiar. It was crimson. I thought, “Boy this is strange water.”
11:20:37 AM #
Physicists have recreated the conditions thought to have existed 10 microseconds after the Big Bang
This provided “compelling evidence” for the existence of a new state of nuclear matter, a quark-gluon plasma, which CERN described as “the primordial soup in which quarks and gluons existed before they clumped together as the universe cooled down.”
10:20:37 AM #
apple-history.com: Apple IIe
CPU speed: 1 Mhz
9:20:37 AM #
The new Russian reusable spacecraft has been lost after returning to earth. 8:20:37 AM #
2000.02.08 (tuesday)
Looks like Ebay and Amazon are suffering the DoS hell that Yahoo went through yesterday:
2:29:45 PM #
Iridium to be bailed out
1:29:45 PM #
Build your own Itsy
12:29:45 PM #
Double hand transplant recipient makes first public appearance
11:29:45 AM #
Atomic Pop signs deal with Microsoft to distribute music in Windows Media Audio format. I still don’t know what they mean by “powerful copyright protection” - it seems like a meaningless phrase as the copyrights are protected by law, not by technology.
10:29:45 AM #
Clinton singing order on genetic discrimination (Reuters): This is simply an executive order banning the Federal Government from using genetic information in hiring or promotion decisions. It isn’t very far-reaching, but it is a step in the right direction and it sets a precedent for wider legislation.
9:29:45 AM #
revolting: Hawaiian Spam Roll (via some random weblog)
8:29:45 AM #
Asteroid to hit earth in 2022 (via drudge) 7:29:45 AM #
Yesterday’s Yahoo outage blamed on sabatoge
6:29:45 AM #
California town to build prototype lunar colony on earth.
5:29:45 AM #
2000.02.07 (monday)
John Carmack interview
11:42:45 AM #
2000.02.06 (sunday)
Dan Sanderson has unveiled the Subhonker Filter, which takes the Weblog Monitor list and lets you customize it to show only the blogs you want. Update 26 Jan 02: Now with a new name and new location: blogTracker.
11:42:45 AM #
Jupiter: this is so cool! You call a toll-free number (888 573 TALK), and Jupiter gives you the weather report for just about any city you want…
At this point, you will hear a brief high pitch beep, indicating that the computer is listening. You can now ask your question, e.g., what’s the forecast in Boston, will it rain tomorrow, when will the sun rise, etc.
See also Pegasus (877 LCS TALK), which is a similar system for flight information.
10:42:45 AM #
It’s sushi time!!!
9:42:45 AM #
Seanbaby: most memorably disturbing video games
I guess the title, “Hide and Seek,” is copyrighted by 6 year old children everywhere, so Atari had to settle on “Sneak ‘n Peek” to avoid lawsuits.
8:42:45 AM #
The Hottest Band In The Country Is About To Take Over The Planet! It’s the Journey coin-op arcade game!!!! Also check out Journey Escape for the Atari 2600.
Now it’s up to you to guide each Journey Band Member past hordes of Love-Crazed Groupies, Sneaky Photographers, and Shifty-Eyed Promoters to the safety of the Journey Escape Vehicle in time to make the next concert.
7:42:45 AM #
2000.02.05 (saturday)
Why you can only get the new Golden Dollar coins at Wal-Mart
6:20:45 PM #
MonkeyFist: Editorial integrity? Slashdot? (via htp’):
Don’t you have to have editorial integrity for concerns about maintaining it to make sense? And don’t you have to have editors before the issue of their integrity makes sense? Are people now going to seriously maintain that what the Slashdot guys do is journalism?
5:20:45 PM #
The Proxomitron: a free personal web proxy. This thing is awesome. It does a great job of blocking banner ads, pop-up windows, geocities “branding”, and other web annoyances. Highly recommended. One problems, however - it blocks the weblog mini-ads, probably because the host they are served from is “ads.weblogs.com” - I will try to poke around at the banner blocker filter’s regexps to see if I can undo that. Update 15 Aug 02: changed link to new site.
4:20:45 PM #
2000.02.04 (friday)
They’re still looking for Mars Polar Lander.
7:07:45 AM #
Microsoft’s next consumer operating system will be known as Windows Me??? wtf? 6:07:45 AM #
I finally got one of the new dollar coins at Wal-Mart last night. Apparently they have some deal with the Treasury that gives them access to the coins before any other retail outfit. Anyway, the coin is much lighter, both in weight and in color, than I expected. There is a very unsubstantial feel to it, almost like an overgrown subway token. I’m a little disappointed by this.
5:07:45 AM #
2000.02.03 (thursday)
More news on the upcoming Dune mini-series
6:53:45 AM #
VA Linux Buying Andover????? WHY????
5:53:45 AM #
2000.02.02 (wednesday)
word.com: frame-laden; crowded, impossible-to-read front page layout; way too much animation; oppressively annoying ads at the top and bottom; and, most of all, downright ugly. The “editor-in-chief,” however, said in a story on internet burnout (via camworld), that “if [the art director] left, I would’ve shut down Word.” The sad thing is, the content is even worse: “Matthew Sharpe hangs out with crypto-fascist seafood salesmen.” Yawn… 2:23:45 PM #
Proposal to make the “Internet Tax” ban permanent:
The measure by Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Rep. Christopher Cox, a California Republican, would set in stone the moratorium on new Web taxes enacted by Congress in October 1998 and due to expire in October 2001…
1:23:45 PM #
AOL users sue over 5.0 (via ars technica):
From chat rooms to computer repair shops, there are warnings about how the upgrade can wreak havoc on unrelated computer programs. People who have installed it say undoing the damage can be difficult.
12:23:45 PM #
3DFX reduction in force (via voodoo extreme): 5% layoffs, 15% leaving to form a new company. Further evidence that 3DFX is doomed, as if we needed anymore. 11:23:45 AM #
How Mir will come back to life:
The current plan calls for the new crew launch to the space station on March 31…
10:23:45 AM #
Ask Jeeves faces legal action (BBC):
Internet search engine Ask Jeeves is reportedly being threatened with legal action by PG Wodehouse’s literary agents for using the name of the late writer’s most famous creation.
9:23:45 AM #
High speed net access for cars:
Datron Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:DTSI) said on Wednesday it made a high-speed Internet connection to a moving vehicle using a satellite television antenna…
8:23:45 AM #
Gestational Diabetes and Glucose Screening - a jelly bean glucose test (scroll down a bit):
A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests that jelly beans may be used to administer glucose tests during pregnancy. If you’ve ever tasted the cloyingly sweet cola beverage that is normally given for glucose tests, this news will come as a welcome surprise. Ten to 15 percent of pregnant women who are given the beverage either vomit from it or refuse to drink all of it, so they never get tested adequately. Side effects other than vomiting may include nausea without vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, and profuse sweating.
7:23:45 AM #
Whoops: Internal email discloses Microsoft’s wireless plans
6:23:45 AM #
2000.02.01 (tuesday)
It’s finally official: the Russians are reviving Mir. 11:24:35 AM #
Still no positive signs from Mars Polar Lander.
10:24:35 AM #
in my email:
On Feb 1, 1884, Sir James Murray and his [largely volunteer] staff published the first installment of the Oxford English Dictionary (A-Ant). At the time, Murray estimated another 11 year’s worth of work; he was way off. Quoting my goofy-linguistics calendar:
“The first complete edition of this monumental publication was finally printed thirteen years after the death of Murray, who survived into the Ts, in 1927.” This is a vague sentence; it’s not clear if Murray died in ‘27 or the final edition was published in ‘27. I read _The Professor and the Madman_, but I don’t recall the dates. ;)
9:24:35 AM #
CEO Tim Koogle says that Yahoo isn’t planning on a media merger a la AOL-Time Warner anytime soon.
There’s one fundamental thing about all of this — it’s that we (as consumers) don’t want to be limited in the ability to choose and get access to what each of us wants . . . That level of choice has a huge, huge value.
8:24:35 AM #
ZDNet: Death of the Common Desktop Enviroment and Motif. CDE was an attempt to create a unified desktop across Unix platforms which GNOME and KDE are aiming to replace.
But the writing on the root window is clear; these technologies are comatose at best. The Motif FAQ page hasn’t changed since April of last year. And the Motif Zone, an e-zine supposedly dedicated to Motif development, features plenty of Linux stuff but its most recent Motif-specific news is almost a year old.
7:24:35 AM #
The Salon.com journalist who tried to give Republican presidential hopeful Gary Bauer the flu now faces possible voter fraud, assault, and hate crimes charges.
6:24:35 AM #