Wednesday, July 31, 2002

VC watch: This week's funding wins. Softricity receives $14.6 million...HyPerformix gets $12 million...Antenova raises $9.4 million. [CNET News.com] So that is why salon is still afloat? 6:18:05 PM

Windows CE .NET 4.1. Download the latest Emulation Edition, get the Evaluation Kit, and check out the latest technical content on Mobile and Embedded Development. [MSDN] note to self: Go play with this when you have some spare play time. 6:14:56 PM

Carnival Booth: An Algorithm for Defeating the Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System [lnk.to] 6:13:03 PM

Braving the Badwater Ultramarathon Hard-Core Athletes Run 135-Mile Death Valley Road Race [npr] 4:32:35 PM

Clemens Vasters: Attributes rock!  Agreed. [Sam Ruby] This is a page that shows how to use attributes to do cools things in asp.net. 4:28:19 PM

Alphabet Soup: Tradeoffs Between 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g : self-extracting zipped word document [Microsoft WinHEC 2002] 4:08:54 PM

acts of volition: Windows XP: rough around the edges [TheFlangyNews News] 3:38:43 PM

Microsoft's Out the Window. When a company buys back more than $9 billion in overvalued stock, it's time to move on. [The Motley Fool] 2:32:25 PM

Senate Panel Approves Treaty Banning Bias Against Women. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved an international treaty on Tuesday that is intended to eliminate discrimination against women. By James Dao. [New York Times: Politics] 10:51:29 AM

Kevin Werbach: "As its now being deployed, 'broadband' is too slow, too expensive, too asymmetric, and too restricted to be the driver of economic growth." [Scripting News] 10:46:15 AM

Ellison Goes With the Wind. Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, is pursuing a new challenge: bringing the America's Cup home to the San Francisco Bay. By Sharael Feist. [Wired News] 10:43:38 AM

Open BSD now has a non executable stack in it's current builds [lnk.to] 10:42:20 AM

Speed Metal for Gender Bending Fiction. Theresa Nielsen Hayden notes the Seattle "Literate Metal" band Blöödhag, who sing songs about James Tiptree, Jr. and Ursula K. Le Guin, and other writers. [More Like This WebLog] 10:40:57 AM

The Shame of Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt describes himself as America's leading Arab ally. Yet his anti-democratic behavior is an embarrassment to Washington and an affront to his own people. [New York Times: Opinion] 10:30:07 AM

HP Uses DMCA To Quash Vulnerability Publication [Slashdot] 8:56:54 AM