Bring back Doctor Who

Do not call again (pdf - judicial opinion)

This time, because telemarketers for charitable organizations could keep on calling, resulting in a content based limitation on freedom of speech.

Don't let any of them call, I say.

Will businesses pay people to blog for other businesses? B2B blogging at Weblogs, Inc.

The meaning of words, and the meanness of misunderstanding them. Finding the right answer these days means using the right words to look for them. See: Transform Magazine ? Putting it Together: Taxonomy, Classification & Search

I'm a patterns and design nut, and this is definitely the page for me: The Interaction Design Patterns Home Page

Electronic paper | who would have thought this would happen? Now that paper is nearing the verge of obsolescence, it's being reborn as an electronic medium. What does this mean for newspapers and magazines?

Russel Simmons speaks: Heeding Hip Hop's Higher Calling

Zen and the art of law enforcement | csmonitor.com

Adactio: Articles - CSS Based Design

EPIC Complaint Against JetBlue Airways and Acxiom Corp. to the Federal Trade Commission

Kazaa's parent company sues record labels

W3C Investigation Begins on HTML Standard

These are pretty neat, even if I'm not an information achitect. | AIFIA | Tools

Space Art in Children's books 1950's to 1970's

Earliest British cemetery dated

The first Jury conviction under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

Google gets local

"The Structure of Pattern Languages", by Nikos A. Salingaros

Windows of opportunity exist | Weblogs Are Pushing the Newsroom Envelope

No more of that talking amongst yourselves | MSN shuts down its chatrooms

WaiZilla | open-source accessibility testing

Stubbornness is a virtue when you address it by its other name - perseverance.

Not quite ready for prime time viewing: when standards bodies fight. At stake, licensing fees for the cost of using ISO codes.

The 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990 to 2000. Challenging people is good.

Blackmail and internet adware are becoming intimately acquainted as business partners. The people behind those actions may find repercussions to what they do.

I don't think I'd want to be country these days either.

I'm going to have to give this a go someday when I'm really bored: Dvorak International's FAQ. And I don't have anything important to type for a few weeks. Can't type too much slower than I do though.

I like seasons. I love the hot days of summer and the cold days of winter. Best of all are the transition days between. The growth of new life in the spring, and the gentle going to sleep of the world in the autumn.

It's time for the leaves to change colors, the football games to be played, and the start of schools in all earnestness.


Have a great one!

Site Finder: The Technical, Legal & Privacy Concerns

Eolas suit may spark HTML changes | CNET News.com

Sophia Coppola's top ten.

I was messing around redesigning some forms pages this weekend. Should I follow this Autocomplete Textbox Example?

Library catalog system owner sues book-based New York hotel

Blogger Forum - The independent Blogger community

1,500 year old "Warrior Queen" unearthed

How To: By You -An Experiment in Intuition

Is Blockbuster doomed?

Bob Barr for Creative Loafing onTrusted Computing platforms. What exactly is there to trust?

Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU Weblog

Wi-Fi lawsuit opens up more access questions |Get Up to Speed Wi Fi Journal| CNET News.com

Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet

Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration

LawMeme - Compulsory Licensing - Where Are the Defenders of HTTP?

The Atlantic | September 2003 | E.T. and God | Davies

Lying about the libraries...

USATODAY.com - FBI checks out library records of terrorist suspects

ICANN | Advisory | 19 September 2003

Eolas says it would settle over IE | CNET News.com

New ISO fees on the horizon? | CNET News.com

AskMen.com - Expensive cars

PCWorld.com - Intel Backs Off Security Plan

75 Years of Band-Aid

Amazon was settled before Columbus' time: Excavations and maps confirm forest housed advanced society.

BBC Archive over P2P

Moreover is stalking blog content -- ZDNet UK - News - Search tool scans blogs for business

Blockquote cite -- have to keep that one in mind XML.com: Language Instincts [Sep. 17, 2003]

UK bans spam messages

Wired News: Nearing a Tax-Free Internet

Why Offices Are Now Open Secrets

Ashcroft: Patriot Act Provision Unused (washingtonpost.com)

economics and practicality are just two parts of the business value of web standards

Building a Free Cuba (washingtonpost.com)

Wired News: Darpa's Ditziness Dents Budget

Hoom! Maps and Walking Directions

Wired News: Senator Takes a Swing at RIAA

The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

Constitution Finder

Founders' Constitution

House Approves Internet Tax Moratorium

(Hurricane) Isabel comes to town tomorrow. I need to go to the grocery store and get some batteries, bottled water, and other emergency supplies. Cause you just never know.

Lessons of the Faked Moon Flight Myth (Skeptical Inquirer March 2003)

TV and the Supreme Court

How “Uncle Joe” Bugged FDR

Atlantic Online takes a look at the Pirates of The Atlantic

Business dinner. Italian. Definitely should happen more.

politics and music

Arbus Reconsidered

I misread a headline earlier today. I thought it said, "Ben and Jerry to break up." Tore me apart. Then I realized how silly that sounded, looked again, and realized they meant Afflick and J Lo (Ben and Jen). I didn't feel as bad anymore.

Crossroads for Online Wine Sales

Publishers Grudgingly Cooperate With Amazon Database Effort

100 Years of Design

State: Workers' private e-mail is just that

STC :: fontBROWSER ::

Recalling the recall in the 9th Circuit

How important is usability in an operating system? Should be mostly transparent, right? As a matter of fact, it's a comparison of applications running on that systemt that might be the deciding factor when you compare one OS to another: InfoWorld: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability

The McCloud rebuttal Micro-payments part 3

The Shirky perspective: Micro-payments part 2

I'm not fond of paying to visit a web site. Will that ever change? Don't know. Micro-payments part 1

The Changing Landscape and the New Academy (pdf)

I'm going to be collecting a lot of education related links here because eLearning is going to overwhelm us quicker than we can even begin to imagine. Here's one:A revolution in Knowledge Sharing (pdf)

Global Virtual Classroom: A free online educational program

If you've been wondering, like I have, how Global Positioning Satellite trackers and search warrants would interact, it appears that due process still exists, and a warrant is needed.

I'm just waiting for the world to end

Are You Too Stupid to Surf?

Thank you Johnny Cash

There's a train leaving at the station, and it carries a Man In Black

bIPlog: Differences... in the Music War

Hey RIAA label artists. Everytime the RIAA sues a twelve year old, I'm going to add some time to my boycott of your record label.

Is the biggest threat we face from within? Is it The USA Patriot Act? Could be.

I'm getting really tired of having people ask me to help them remove malware from their computers. I'm sure that I'm not the only one. Folks who make Gator, and other programs that spawn popups. You're making a lot of us mad. Antispyware maker hunts down Gator

P2P group: We'll pay girl's RIAA bill