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Heading out to Long Island. I'll be connected. Hope you're all getting out of the house too.
More utter madness from the MPAA. I've stopped being too outraged by this sort of thing, and am now taking it as an inevitable (and ineffectual) stage that must be gone through by a dinosaur in death throes. Sort of like cussing madly at the people around you as you fall unhappily to dust. But I hope that's not too optimistic, and so I'm glad there are people still getting pissed off at these ridiculous legal plays...
Still, the better response would be to build networks that can't be shut down.
Mozilla 1.0 RC3 is out. Supposedly this will be the final release candidate before the official 1.0. Real soon now.
Other than the sporadic image file corruption problem, RC2 has been perfect.
Cory Doctorow describes using peek-a-booty for what he calls: Distributed provision of service. That's what I'm talking about. We need alternate routing methods to guard against someone trying to take the internet down.
Interesting new beta features at google. At first glance sets is very cool. Go google (but get rid of that dilbert crap!)
keyboard shortcuts for mozilla.
David Isenberg and David Weinberger spell it out (from Nov. 2001): The best network is the hardest one to make money running. Great statement of the problem. (from htp)
Open content network. This seems really cool. A description of the network is here. I have to do more research on this.
If you use PHP to develop web apps you should be aware that 4.2 is bringing some changes that could break your scripts. Still, my impression is these are good changes, but it does mean there is work to be done. Here's an article on keeping up to date.