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Joel writes on software. “Good software takes 10 years” is a good read.

Funny Churchill quotes.

Don’t work too hard on keyboards. You’ll ruin your wrists like I did.

Encyclopaedia Britannica is now a paid service.

The full texts of Supreme Court rulings. Online and free.

MIT’s Blogdex crawls weblogs (like mine) for popular links. Nice concept – somewhat like Google’s, except more “current information” based. The page of only weblogs has a good list of weblogs (not as comprehensive as Eatonweb), and Rebecca’s written a good history of weblogs.

This study has some nice animations on how the Code Red virus spread geographically.

In some quiet corner, something different is happening to copyrights. The law of eminent domain is being applied to content. Not good enough, but its a start.

If you don’t want spam, here are some things to do and not to do. Don’t post usenet articles, to start with.

My site actually has pretty bad design against these parameters. Need to work on it. Besides, the time is up for static sites. Dynamic website design will rule. Wonder when Geocities will start offering these features.

A $45 billion writedown from JDS Uniphase. The largest ever loss in corporate history.

I’ve started needing a time zone converter pretty badly, with all these international interviews that I’m doing.

Secret Yahoo emoticons.

Wednesday seems the most popular day for visiting my site. While I get 14 visitors a day on average, I seem to get 22 visitors on Wednesdays.

Lots about artificial intelligence on Yahoo Clubs, ai.about.com, and Generation5. Among other things, you can find various version of Alice to chat with.

Archimedes may have anticipated a bit of Cantor’s work on infinity. In mathematical history terms, that’s about as big as the ancient Greeks invented aeroplanes.

The Internet Oracle (ultimate source of Internet humour, IMHO) is alive and well.

Celera’s Genomic News is a pretty good source of information on what’s happening in genetic engineering.

If you thought HAL and IBM in 2001: A Space Odyssey was clever, you should read this article to learn out about the pun in Gattaca.

Sanskrit texts and bhajans are available as audio.