SF Gate: Not a Moment Too Soon.[Tomalak's Realm]

SPAM filtering software. Someone "new" writes to you, they automatically get a little survey to fill out (apparently this includes some information that scripts can't fill out).

If they don't respond, you don't see the email (unless you go looking for it).

Information on What The RIAA Wants To Do To Your Computer

Dave Winer's Analysis Of The Issue

Steps Being Taken (Dave Winer)

News.com's take

Computer Industry People Speak On Issue

If you value your computer's security, you should read these articles. The stuff from Dave Winer is good, and nontechnical - while still delivering good information. The News.com ones are more geeky... and probably less interesting to Non-Technical readers

Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? [Slashdot]

As I'm not even close to having this discussion with Someone Special, i'll refrain from commenting.

But it brings a thought to my head. If some money from the drug industry really makes it to terrorists, and some money from the diamond industry... well, I'd like to know what others. I want to know what percent of music sales the RIAA is planning on putting into their new legislation. Or what percent of the sales from the oil industry goes to support suicide bombers.

Above you'll find a link to a story about the RIAA's new tactics. I don't know if I posted something like it before, but it's an important issue.

HyperCard: What Could Have Been. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Interview with Atkinson. He says his whole studio is run on "one big Hypercard stack". Ahhh, Hypercard...

He also wishes he had made it more network oriented, like being able to browse a remote stack.

From The Human-interest dept. Harlem Lands in Little League World Series. "The Harlem Little League beat the Lehigh team from Pennsylvania, 5-4, to reach the Little League World Series." By Chris Broussard. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]