Monday, July 01, 2002

Rude Awakenings Some effects of the Middle East wars on U.S. campuses. [National Review Online] 6:00:12 PM

Ancient bronze sex toys found in China [The Straits Times] 3:39:36 PM

Download Visual J# .NET. Get the final bits for this comprehensive, Java-language tool for building and integrating XML Web services and applications. [MSDN] 1:27:11 PM

Two Towers Teaser now available 12:01:37 PM

Photos: Leet Hacker and Solar Erruption 10:46:11 AM

Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online. Increasingly desperate for customers, several major record labels have resolved to make more music legally available for less money online even if it means sacrificing lucrative CD sales. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology] 10:22:54 AM

IBM, Microsoft and Liberty: together at last. In Software We Trust [The Register] 10:19:51 AM

Clay Shirky: Half the World. The Phrase establishes telecommunications access as a Big Problem and, by extension, validates the speaker as a Thinker-About-Big-Problems. But saying "Half the world has never made a phone call" makes no more sense than saying "My car goes from 0 to 60" or "It rained 15 inches." [Tomalak's Realm] 10:15:50 AM

Palladium Rant. [Better Living Through Software] 10:12:19 AM

Judge Finds Federal Executions Unconstitutional [Yahoo News] 9:25:05 AM

Moderate Muslims Under Siege. Moderate Muslim intellectuals living in the West have been fighting a thankless battle, often in the shadows, for the very soul of their religion. By Kahled Abou El Fadl. [New York Times: Opinion] 8:48:14 AM

Copyright Battle Over Nothing [Slashdot] - The Story is old, but the comments are funny this time. 8:41:27 AM