Friday, January 10, 2003

Usability of Open Source Software [Info Design] 4:04:54 PM     Comments

A Most Inspiring Investor. You've heard of Warren Buffett, but have you heard of Oseola McCarty? [The Motley Fool] 4:03:34 PM     Comments

Living Below Your Means. "...the result is...that money has taken over my life." [The Motley Fool] 4:03:08 PM     Comments

Google has changed its adwords site for the worse.  It used to be a fantastic tool that let you dig down into keywords and keyword combos to find traffic info, etc.  They have dumbed it down to a clone of Overture. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 4:02:35 PM     Comments

Luggage bomb hoax lands couple in jail. Patty Davis at CNN - Luggage bomb hoax lands couple in jail - Well done, Mr. Donahue and Ms. Wood! [rrnd] Paul Kenneth Donahue, 50, and Teresa Marie Wood, 46, had been scheduled to fly from San Jose, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, on Delta Flight 576 Tuesday. When their bags were put through a bomb detection machine, federal screeners found what turned out to be a snow boot with batteries, wires and an electrical power strip arranged in a suspicious way. Screeners also found a note that read, "To the uniformed puppet opening this bag -- congratulations. You've just brought this once free nation one step closer to becoming a fascist police state," according to Transportation Security Administration spokesman Robert Johnson. The note was scribbled on one side of the cardboard torn from a box of Cracklin' Oat Bran. [End the War on Freedom] 3:59:41 PM     Comments

Bob Frankston: VoIP is a simple idea and simply works. In the Times article, the Verizon spokesperson said that the Public Switched Telephone Network has worked well for many decades. That's true by comparison to the alternatives -- no phone system at all. Now that we have alternatives the PSTN comes up wanting. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:27:08 PM     Comments

Dave Winer is going to Harvard. I'm jealous. 3:10:33 PM     Comments