Thursday, September 12, 2002

Technology Review: Data Extinction. Both are faced with the knowledge that current methods for preserving digital things work poorly, even in the short term. Just how bad is the problem? Examples of digital things lost forever abound, some personal in scale, some global. [Tomalak's Realm] 8:47:53 PM

New Scientist: Tissue engineers grow penis in the lab [lnk.to] 7:05:47 PM

BigIdeaFUN.com - Penguins - Arcade - Spaced Penguin! [lnk.to] 6:58:42 PM

Why terrorism works. Alan Dershowitz says the world community opened the door to al-Qaida by rewarding Palestinian terrorists -- and makes the case for national I.D. cards and torture. [Salon.com] Intresting read. 6:49:11 PM

Pakistan Wants No Part in an Attack on Iraq. President Pervez Musharraf said that an American decision to attack Iraq would inflame Islamic extremism. By Patrick E. Tyler. [New York Times: Politics] 6:30:30 PM

Intel's Linux Based Home Media Gateway [Slashdot] So this is why intel is doing linux and UPnP. 6:18:11 PM

Iraq hits at Bush 'lies'. Iraq sends a defiant message to US President George Bush after he warned of military action. [BBC News | WORLD] 6:13:27 PM

Taleban leader 'will free Afghanistan'. Al-Jazeera TV says it has a statement from ousted Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar¸ pledging to fight until Afghanistan is liberated. [BBC News | WORLD] 6:13:03 PM

Matt Miller (Clinton White House aid) lays out the coincidences of timing of the current Iraq action. 5:09:42 PM

Joe Conason Journal – likes what he heard at the UN and also talks about why we “didn’t finish the job” at the end of the gulf war. 5:08:57 PM

Windows Media Player 9 tough to shake. People looking to uninstall the test version of the new media player software may find the program is like a bad houseguest: It just won't leave. [CNET News.com] There a bunch of people internally who are wondering what the Windows Media People are smoking too. 3:32:55 PM

50 Senators Ask Daschle for Debate on Renewing Welfare Law. More than half the Senate called on the majority leader to schedule a debate on reauthorizing the welfare program. By Robert Pear. [New York Times: Politics] 11:31:51 AM

Tyco ex-bosses hit by more charges. Three former executives from the troubled conglomerate are served with fresh indictments¸ as a probe into its murky finances widens. [BBC News | WORLD] 11:27:16 AM

Zimbabwe to speed up farmer evictions. The Zimbabwe Government plans to change the law¸ making it easier and quicker to evict white farmers¸ state media reports. [BBC News | WORLD] 11:25:48 AM

Lawrence Lessig talks about Palladium. [RedHerring] 10:41:48 AM

Joel is trying to figure out if he should support custom fields in his bug tracking software. He gives some good reasons why not to, specifically if it intimidates or makes it more cumbersome to file a bug, then it probably a bad thing. This advice should be in bold letters in the help, or the ui for adding custom fields. There are times when a custom field doesn’t affect the “file-ability” of a bug. An example is something automated in the source management process. When windows went from a single tree, to a branch/main build system, our bug tracking software needed to carry an extra field to tell us not only what branch build a bug got checked into, but also what main build it was reverse integrated into. This was a field maintained by our build/integration process, and remains extremely valuable. 10:27:53 AM