Archive for August, 2001

back in effect

Sunday, August 19th, 2001

Back in Effect - After more than five years locked up, “Big Suge” is back on the streets and running his record label again. We can only hope that he’ll free us once again from the glam-rap P. Diddly-isms we’ve had to endure for the past five years. All of Suge’s alumni are […]

misc

Friday, August 17th, 2001

Misc - Zimran Ahmed has a post about why HTML sucks. This is the counter position to my earlier comments in favor of HTML. In other news, the Peace Corps reports that their ranks are swelling to record numbers due to dot-com layoffs; these are crazy times. If anything, the last few […]

webstuff

Thursday, August 16th, 2001

Webstuff - Dave Winer today complains that the press focus too much on lame stuff and miss the real innovation in software. Today I was happy to stumble across some real innovation in software. The first is a tool to shut down those STUPID pop-under ads. Of course, others have written similar […]

breaking windows?

Thursday, August 16th, 2001

Breaking Windows? - Businessweek today talks about the new book, “Breaking Windows”. The reporter simply writes a summary of the book, adding his own clever title: “Microsoft’s un-civil war”. Critics can’t get enough of this book; they are seemingly astonished by the fact that people within Microsoft have differences of opinion. David […]

moral hazards

Tuesday, August 14th, 2001

Moral Hazards - Now this is cool news. A court has ruled that a man’s right to procreate does not override the woman’s right to not procreate, at least in this specific case where the man and woman broke up after the egg was fertilized and became an embryo, but before the embryo was […]