I’m on vacation until 27 August. Don’t expect too many updates. In the meantime, enjoy a CNet ad I liked. (Note: I’m not getting any “ad revenues” for this. Nor do I enjoy vodka. I prefer milk shakes.) (I used to have an Absolut vodka ad here, but it doesn’t seem to work any more.)
A simple and detailed explanation for why evolution does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics.
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SOME people have updated their website, and done a jolly decent job of it too. ONE may appreciate that.
Chris Coutts has a chatter’s version of Romeo & Juliet. A hilarious but accurate 10-minute flash movie. (Coutts has also made other movies.)
Corante filters tech news.
I’d missed this earlier. Microsoft has released its Windows CE source code to the public!
DotComDoom.com – about the demise of dot-coms. News links.
If nothing else, the Moody downgrading and S & P downgrading mean a further slowdown in India, despite any rate cuts.
I had several minutes of fun using the Virtual Stapler.
When the boom was on, America’s flexible labour laws made it a haven. With the slowdown, American layoffs are faster. Flexible labour laws come with the penalty of volatility.
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.