"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman writes:
One wonders whether most of the public will ever learn that the original case for war has turned out to be false. In fact, my guess is that most Americans believe that we have found W.M.D.’s. Each potential find gets blaring coverage on TV; how many people catch [...]
NewsScan reports that Madonna was targeted by hackers after she was involved with seeding some “decoy” files on
music sharing services:
MADONNA FIGHTS PIRACY WITH PROFANITY
Madonna and Warner Music Group decided to play a trick on music pirates and
hackers responded by defacing her Web site and offering yet-unreleased
songs for downloading. It all started when Madonna lent her [...]
Phil Agre apologizes:
I’m sorry that RRE has been quiet for so long. I’ve been writing.
I guess I sat out the war. I put a lot of effort into the last couple
of wars, so I ended up having to let everyone else cover this one.
In any case I’ll be back.
Earlier this week William [...]
And now, a rare political diatribe… Salon discusses reports that Green party chairs are “getting the feeling” that he will run for president in 2004.
Now, I have to begin by admitting that I voted for Nader in 2000. I have quite a bit of frustration at entrenched party politics, but also I felt [...]
Tim Bray writes about Emoji, the Japanese variant on “emoticons”. NTT DoCoMo has set up over 200 characters which can be used to express a word or an idea with a minimum of typing.
I sometimes say that I’m in favor of “active construction” of language — in contrast to people who are sticklers [...]
In The Music Piracy Myth , publisher Tim O’Reilly shares an email he received George Ziemann, who has done exhaustive analysis of the sales figures which the RIAA uses to claim that music downloading has adversely affected their sales. The truth is that one reason sales are down is that the labels are releasing [...]
Paul Graham designs programming languages. As far as I can tell, he started to become a bit of an internet celebrity with a heavily referenced essay on filtering spam e-mail a few months back.
Now he presents The Hundred Year Language, considering how code might look that far into the future. He’s an excellent [...]
Tim Bray is a bit of a geek celebrity for his work on XML. Apparently he’s also a music lover:
“Music to Die For” is a not-uncommon expression but it makes me nervous since I’m among the people most likely to be a music fatality. This would happen when I’m driving and something comes on [...]
A man came up to me, said, “I’m not comfortable serving you,” took the pint out of my hand, and set it back on the counter where I’d set it down just moments ago before stepping outside. “You’re not comfortable serving me?” “No,” he said. “Can I at least hang out?” “No. You have to [...]
A few days ago my friend Jacob forwarded an email to the Posse quoting a speech by Dr. Robert Muller, a former assistant secretary of the UN. It was inspiring, and we all need that these days. It turns out that other people have been similarly inspired, and links to it turn up [...]