Monday, January 13, 2003

Press release: "Jupitermedia Corporation today announced that its Jupiter Research division will be the first research advisory firm to offer dedicated research analyst Weblogs." [Scripting News] 2:17:45 PM

Today's dose of Paranoia: Several months ago, GOBBLES Security was recruited by the RIAA (riaa.org) to invent, create, and finally deploy the future of antipiracy tools. We focused on creating virii/worm hybrids to infect and spread over p2p nets. Until we became RIAA contracters, the best they could do was to passively monitor traffic. Our contributions to the RIAA have given them the power to actively control the majority of hosts using these networks. Somehow I doubt that the RIAA was dumb enough to do this, but it does highlight the idea and the risk that computing gives us today. 1:44:34 PM

Another Win for Microsoft. Judge Kollar-Kotelly tells two trade groups that they can't appeal. [The Motley Fool] 1:33:09 PM

Where the Girls Aren't. Computer science has become the new math -- boys only. Is it nature or conditioning? By Karen Stabiner. [New York Times: Technology] 1:19:31 PM

Reform? Republicans Take It All Back. On Tuesday, after the new Congress was sworn in, Republican members passed several House rules that overturned some of their old ethical reforms. By Ryan Lizza. [New York Times: Politics] 12:03:54 PM

Clonaid ordered to reveal 'clone'. The company which claims it has produced the world's first cloned human is ordered by a US court to disclose the whereabouts of the baby. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 12:02:10 PM

What Lawyers Can Learn From Manga. jedigeek links to this article from Lawrence Lessig, writing "This article explains the interesting phenomenon of dojinshi, and why dojinshi helps fuel the ... [Slashdot] 11:52:09 AM

Microsoft resolves class-action suit. The company settles a California lawsuit, agreeing to hand out to certain Windows buyers $1.1 billion in vouchers good for products from Microsoft or others. [CNET News.com] 11:51:51 AM

Sony wields high-capacity Sticks. The consumer-electronics giant is boosting the capacity of its Memory Stick removable flash memory cards and developing a new faster-recording card format. [CNET News.com] 11:51:39 AM

Blue's News has some huge Uru screen shots. D'ni looks great; it's just as I imagined it. [Hack the Planet] 11:49:04 AM

Icon Wars - Nice Flash 11:44:08 AM

Spot the GIFerence [jwz] Actual link (I got 9/16) 11:14:48 AM

The God Machine [jwz] FCC Head likes the TIVO 11:12:06 AM

a relationship of trust, dependency, and rubber hoses [jwz] 11:10:32 AM

AOL Chairman Quits His Post Amid Criticism [NYTimes] 10:44:11 AM

'Bomb Texas' The psychological roots of anti-Americanism [Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal] Pretty good read, but this is not the arguements I'm actually hearing against things. In that way it's just one big strawman arguement about a left that I've heard about on television, but never seen. 10:10:33 AM