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

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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