2002

Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.

All ISPs are going to start offering Internet Telephony pretty soon. Good.

Looks like the US has interfered a lot in all kinds of things. The Economist wants them to “… try again”.

Kopczuk and Slemrod demostrate that people will die later if it saves inheritance tax. I fully empathise.

Who’d have thought that you could steal data by recording LED lights!

The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it. Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!

Mindless addictive Shockwave game.

The news on Morpheus and Gnutella.

My sleeping posture “suggests” that I’m narrow-minded, self-centered, etc. Not true. (?)

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.

Good and Bad. Mac and PCs. On TV.

Star Wars on Telnet. In text. Still worth a look.

The Man Project. Cool Flash.

How good can a 256 byte webpage be? See the 256b.htm competition. I was particularly impressed by Bonz-Mandelbrot, Poi-Metaballs and Mados-Divo. 256b.com has more 256-byte stuff.

I hate this. “Beginning April 2, 2002, we – Geocities – will no longer provide FTP access as part of our free home page service.” Nice of them to let me know well in advance, though.

The Japanese are creating new forms of life. (OK, they just created new bases.)

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

Enron’s voice mail. No, that’s not true, but it’s pretty similar to Enron’s real voice mail at 1-703-853-6161. (And funnier, too).

Is there hope? Could the copyright duration be brought down from 70 years?

Interesting article on complexity in basketball (from NECSI)