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June 12, 2001

Local bike shop ;

ahh … my favorite bike shop is now online millburnbikeshop.com … nice site pat!

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June 11, 2001

So long and thanks for all the fodder

“Two of the Web’s longest-lived magazines, Feed and Suck, said on Friday that they had suspended publication and laid off their skeleton staffs because they were unable to raise the money needed to continue.”

From: 2 Long-Running Internet Magazines Shut Down

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June 8, 2001

Have a smoke, but don’t stroke!

i saw this link on geeknews and it’s sinfully hilarious!

“Masturbation is more dangerous than smoking!!”

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June 8, 2001

Linux on the PlayStation

Czech company Blokman Trading s.r.o. just released an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the original PlayStation.

More news here: PlayStation branches out

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June 8, 2001

Delegation scales the community

this is a bit old, but i thought it to be a great quote by Stefano Mazzocchi about his decision to leave the Apache Cocoon development he created:

“…delegation scales the community and a bigger community means more value, more fun, more positive energy. But delegation happens only if you trust, if you consider your fellow community mate equal to you.

When this doesn’t happen, friction develops, bottlenecks arise, positive energy turns into negative one.

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June 8, 2001

Those annoying X10 Pop-Under Ads

Turn them off here ! (well, only for 30-days, but hey it’s better than nothing)

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June 7, 2001

Lotus to offer Web services kit to developers

an interesting article detailing how lotus plans to offer it’s collaboration applications as web services:

“The centerpiece of Lotus’ announcements will be a Web services enablement kit that allows developers to take components of Lotus collaboration applications and embed them as Web services in other Lotus applications or in non-Lotus Web applications.”

From: ZDNet: eWEEK: Lotus to offer Web services kit to developers

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June 7, 2001

J.R.R. Tolkien: Lord of the Geeks

very intriguing article in the Village Voice about Tolkien’s influence on geek-culture:

“If you feel that’s no particularly meaningful achievement, I understand. But maybe you could indulge me and imagine, just for a moment, that the fact that we live in a world increasingly made by geeks actually makes their collective imagination worth understanding.”

From: The Village Voice: Features: Lord of the Geeks by Julian Dibbell

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June 6, 2001

Fluorescent LANs

an interesting link i found on slashdot about a new technology that utilizes the flicker of flurescent bulbs to create a LAN.

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June 6, 2001

Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech

interesting essay on slashdot: “Not only am I unsure of what changes are coming down the road, I don’t think I dare predict whether they’re going to be changes for the better or worse. But whatever happens over the next decade or two … peer-to-peer music trading, legal or otherwise, is going to shake things up big-time.”

From: Slashdot | Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech

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