25 June 2002

MozDev MozDev -- Check out 70 projects related to Mozilla. Projects include an alternate user interface, a Mozilla/Blogger component, and a spellchecker.

Microsoft Tablet MICROSOT.com -- Expect to see Microsoft Tablets before Christmas. Tablets from Toshiba, Acer and Fujitsu are in beta now. They're no more than modified sub-notebooks, with a wireless dimension. In demonstrations, most people like Microsoft's electromagnetic pen. It can can move the cursor when it hovers above a Tablet PC and can create an ink-like line when it touches the screen.

Palladium REGISTER.co.uk -- Microsoft has a Secure OS Skunk Works Project with DRM built-in on the back of a hardware/software solution.

The Pearl Jam Effect MOBY -- If you're in the music industry, you probably don't want your fans to be technically savvy. That's the point Moby makes when reflecting on a slump in CD sales. Technically savvy fans rip, burn and share. That behaviour doesn't help sell CDs. x: 128

Warchalking Warchalking Runes 1.0. Matt Jones, inventor of "war-chalking" -- hobo-runes that WiFi activists chalk on the sidewalk when they encouter a wireless netwok -- proposes a set of simple symbols. I'd like to point out that while I haven't invented anything quite so fabulous as war-chalking, I did come up with the blogger gang-sign. Hold out your left hand, palm up, then grab your left forearm and make a moue of pain as you massage away invisible RSI cramps -- dude, you're throwing signs! Link Discuss (Thanks, Matt!) [Boing Boing Blog]