Friday, August 29, 2003

Government office adds Mac OS X to list. The U.S. government is now officially recognizing and supporting Mac OS X as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a revised version of its Technical Reference Model (TRM) that adds the operating system and Linux to its list of "supporting platforms," according to Federal Computer Week. Mac OS X and Linux were added because "more and more" agencies use these technologies, reports Government Computer Week. [MacCentral] 6:13:09 PM

Macworld review: Tinderbox 1.2. Decades before the Web, visionary thinkers imagined information organized with hyperlinks, pathways, hierarchies, and keywords so people could easily share and organize their ideas. Now Eastgate Systems brings this vision to life, with Tinderbox 1.2.3, a remarkable tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data -- you could use it to brainstorm ideas, maintain a Weblog, or store recipes, for example. [MacCentral] 6:12:22 PM

Freedom's Dark Side. Virtual intelligentsia from across the continent and beyond congregate in Vienna to celebrate the specter haunting cybercapitalism: free information. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 10:49:06 AM

Freddy, Jason, Megadeth and me. I'm a young, cultured New Yorker who reads Gaddis and Ishiguro. But I can't stand indie rock, I love speed metal and slasher movies, and I refuse to be ashamed anymore! [Salon.com] 10:48:56 AM

Baghdad's shame. Babies die daily of treatable diseases while their doctors search for black-market drugs, because the U.S can't fix Iraq's corrupt, crime-plagued health system. [Salon.com] 10:48:46 AM