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

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

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!

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

The news on Morpheus and Gnutella.

Mindless addictive Shockwave game.

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.

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

Good and Bad. Mac and PCs. On TV.

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.

The Man Project. Cool Flash.

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

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.

Is AnswerBus better than AskJeeves?

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

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

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).

Tech Review. Interesting magazine with recent tech trends. Comments

Weird news on the rise. A search for weird news on Google reveals popular news sites like USA Today, MSNBC, ABCNews and even Reuters (via Yahoo) taking an interest in this area.

Well connected. A database of sites and e-mails that people trust. You can build your own trust network on this. (Given that Google once started out as google.stanford.edu, I wonder what this one could become.)