Monday, July 8, 2002

More on Slashdot: MS Palladium Patent, Commerce Dep't to Hold Public Workshop on DRM. 01:33'28    comment []

Slashdot: Apple Blacklists "Rumor Promoting" Publications. The MacWorld Expo is run by IDG, owner of Mac Publishing LLC, for whom I used to work. They're so "BigCo" it's not even funny, and this shit doesn't surprise me in the least. By the way, former Mac Pub writer Matthew Rothenberg wrote this up over on eWeek a few days ago. 01:31'44    comment []

Opera & Macromedia Develop Embeddable Mac Browser

David Burrows: "This is an interesting development for the Mac platform. IE on the PC is a standard Active X control and can be easily used in Windows apps as an html rendering component. OS 9/10 doesn't have this functionality which makes it harder to take advantage of HTML and the web in Mac apps. With this embeddable browser, Opera has a chance of making vast inroads into the Mac browser market, perhaps becoming the de-facto standard on the platform. It's interesting they've gone with Opera instead of Mozilla/Gecko, I suppose Macromedia need more control over the development process and they think they'll get that with Opera..." 01:18'26    comment []

Apparently, some people have far more free time on their hands than I. [via Boing Boing Blog] 01:15'35    comment []

Adam Curry: The Man on the TV Said So. "It was like fire to cave-dwellers... Somewhere it all went horribly wrong." 01:11'44    comment []

NYT: Expecting Taliban, but Finding Only Horror. "Mr. Rahim said he asked an American commander who visited the scene: 'Mullah Omar and Mullah Bradar are just two people and you bombed four villages. Why?' He went on to say that the four villagers arrested by the American soldiers were ordinary farmers." 01:01'57    comment []

Paolo writes: "Very soon I could swicth the default browser settings of my system, and for the second time of my life I will have changed my default browser (I switched from Netscape 4 to Explorer 4 sometime at the end of the last century). The main reason for my switch will be a bunch of very simple new features, something that has been totally missing from IE for a long time." 00:59'10    comment []