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What happened to Cam's CMS mailing list? I almost got crushed by the volume at first, and now not a single post for days. What gives? Maybe I was unsubscribed. Or maybe everyone decided it really wasn't so great after all? I was starting to think so. I had hoped it would be about people designing their own CMS's; but it turned out to be more about people debating the relative merits of different commercial packages. I can already read Dave Winer talk about frontier on his site. Did he kill the discussion by participating too much? Was the topic just too broad? Or is everyone just really busy right now, and I should calm down and wait for things to pick up again? You know, I was starting to expect those mails...
Double dose of sci-fi fact on /. today. First up, evidence for the existence of a salt water ocean under the surface of Europa. Not a very good discussion, so maybe click right to this UKTimes piece that was the original source of the story. Contact creeps closer. And secondly, a team of Australian biologists is preparing to clone the Tasmanian tiger. It's been extinct for 70 years. Probably best to skip the troll/slashbot wars on that one too, and jump right to the MSNBC story. And if you like these sorts of cloning, space exploration, search for extraterestrial life stories, let me once again plug the incredible sci-fi book Diaspora, by Greg Egan.
I think this is the shortest, most clear summary of the hole found in PGP. (A little on the technical side, but if you're clicking through on a story about security holes in PGP, that's probably what you're looking for.) Probably no reason to panic, but if you are using this sort of encryption, you better read up.
Unlike yesterday, today is going pretty well.
And I thought rock stars were the only ones with ridiculous work space demands (insert some joke about little sandwiches and unstuffed olives here.) I guess computer programmers can get in on the action now too. But a lego desk? And check out the fully functional lego grandfather clock the creator previously made. Ummmm... lego's.
Sevencrabrangoon has got to be the deadpan funniest, solo geek personal site in the world. Check this one out. LOL, or whatever it is they say.
Random web quote of the day: "If we can make something decentralised, out of control, and of great simplicity, we must be prepared to be
astonished at whatever might grow out of that new medium." --Tim Berners-Lee
Neil Stephenson in negotiations to do consulting work on the live action movie version of the Batman Beyond cartoon?
Here's some information from nasa about when the new International Space Station is viewable with the naked eye. "As ISS assembly continues over the next four-five years,
the light dot will grow to a brilliant star in the morning or evening
skies, second only in brightness to the planet Venus, the brightest object
(besides the moon) in the morning or evening." For NYC, for the near future, we're talking:
| New York, NY |
22-Aug-2000 23-Aug-2000 24-Aug-2000 24-Aug-2000 25-Aug-2000 26-Aug-2000 27-Aug-2000 |
8:49 PM 9:19 PM 8:13 PM 9:49 PM 8:43 PM 9:13 PM 8:07 PM |
NW/ENE NW/NNE NW/ENE WNW/W NW/ENE WNW/SW NW/ESE |
Now that's some bird watching.
Here's an interesting discussion, between some interesting people, about (you guessed it) Napster, file sharing, and intellecutal property rights. David Gans, Scott Rosen, among others. Some musicians in the mix. Not all ranting; some actual conversation..