Chaos upsets families - National case causes obstacles at hospice.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Mar/20050327News015.asp
"The delays lasted three to four minutes - the last of her grandfather’s life." So fucking disgusting. The kooks and loons grandstanding for Terri destroy the whole point of the hospice. R.I.P. after 15 years of purgatory and living death.
newsobserver.com | Local & State | Unmarried woman challenges law
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2263947p-8643550c.html
"Fired because she lived with her boyfriend, she files suit to overturn state cohabitation ban."
Restaurant franchise hopes loyalty pays - 02/22/05
http://www.detnews.com/2005/business/0502/22/C02-97131.htm
"Panchero's Mexican Grill representatives expect their restaurant's popularity with college students in East Lansing and Ann Arbor will help the chain make inroads in the Detroit area." The Girl and I have driven 30-40 minutes round trip just to get Panc
Classic Handheld Gaming - Mega Mario Magnets @ PortaGame.com
http://www.portagame.com/classic_handhelds.php/2005/03/29/mega_mario_magnets
"Pixelated Mario Magnets are the latest in line of Pixel Mario kubrick style toys/figures."
Boing Boing: New Dr Who star quits after one episode
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/30/new_dr_who_star_quit.html
Well, more like one SEASON. But still, he seemed good in that first episode. Dammit.
jluster.org’s webvergnügen » Thank you
http://www.jluster.org/2005/03/thank-you
Well, I'm still considering switching to WordPress anyway.
One America Committee: Home
http://www.oneamericacommittee.com
"John Edwards is participating in an exciting new medium: podcasting." (via Evil Genius Chronicles)
Achewood - March 31, 2005 - Mexican Yeyo Boys
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03312005
"Come on! Compete in the established marketplace, you pussy!"
The Man Who Saved the World Finally Recognized - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/05/21/petrov.shtml
"He didn’t. Minutes later, no missiles came; months later, the frightening data across his monitor was determined to have been a system glitch."
The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Weblog :: Owner of a Lovely Butt
http://accordionguy.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/31/498275.html
"Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart as the bed track and Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back as the vocal track"
SCIFI.COM | Stargate Atlantis | Podcast
http://www.scifi.com/atlantis/downloads/podcast
You know, the SciFi channel really has been pissing me off with cancellations, and shitty movies-- but these podcasts are damn clueful.
Mac-gaming: Goban for OS X
http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000140038240
I really, really need to get back to learning / playing Go. And Goban rocks.
diesel sweeties: pixelated robot romance web comic
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1194
"Poorly-chosen words are the most effective contraceptive known to man."
Growing Up With Computers || kuro5hin.org
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/28/184436/250
"Do you remember your first computer?"
weather.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x411 pixels)
http://www.yukihime.com/comics/paremix/badgers/weather.jpg
"Fine, and sometimes bear."
Max's blog v0.2.1: A problem with Python
http://ischenko.blogspot.com/2005/03/problem-with-python_30.html
"Python cannot fully utilize hardware resources."
[tw] : Dave Apologizes, Seth Considers, Nothing Changes
http://www.truerwords.net/4624
"However, it's going to take more than a half-hearted apology (immediately followed by a justfication) to really get me involved again." Wow, seems like that answers my questions about what ever happened to the Frontier Open Source release.
Dreaming of Dawn » Blog Archive » Hacking Wordpress
http://elizabethmariesmith.com/?p=19
Wordpress with support for SQLite, among other things.
thunk.py
http://zesty.ca/python/thunk.py
"Use _ as a placeholder in an expression to create a one-argumentfunction that fills in the placeholder and evaluates the expression."
Podcast: How to Wax Your Ass Hair
http://blog.mastermaq.ca/archive/2005/03/26/3884.aspx
I'll never think of Bolero the same way again.
R2-D2 Talking Light Sabre Game -- Oshaberi Kiki Ippatsu
http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/KB172
"It's a great game for parties, as it's quite fun to see who will find the exploding slot."
Achewood - March 29, 2005
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03292005
"You think we can cock it up to roll joints?"
RSS Mix Tape
http://novalis.org/programs/rssmixtape
"RSS Mix Tape reads items from RSS feeds that you specify ... You go through the list, picking your favorite posts and putting them into categories."
[delicious-discuss] big news
http://lists.del.icio.us/pipermail/discuss/2005-March/002554.html
"I've decided to quit my job and workon del.icio.us full time." Holy shit. Congratulations!
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes Of All Time
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool
Great stuff here.
Other Means of Payment
http://www.eviltrash.net/html/fusion_bilder/csg27.jpg
SciScoop || Exploring Tomorrow || Psst! Anybody Want This SciScoop Website?
http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2005/3/28/14223/4228
"...I've given this site my best shot for a quarter decade now, leads me to feel in my gut that it's time to move on and put my primary focus on some other projects."
Hit and Run - The Schiavo case: Bearing False Witness
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/03/the_schiavo_cas.shtml
'...the level of hysteria, hate, and lies around this issue -- coming from the "pro-life" side -- is revolting.'
Hey Hey 16k by Anim by Rob Manuel - Song by MJ Hibbett [for B3ta.com]
http://custurd.b3ta.com/heyhey16k
\m/, Rawks.
Silent tech majority invites Mickey Mouse to poison P2P | The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/29/it_vendor_grokster/page2.html
"Let's see how Apple likes it though when iPod sales are halted for a few years as the courts decide how legitimate the device really is."
vowe dot net :: It's "Make your own caption" time
http://vowe.net/archives/005716.html
Uhh... tuxedo... sewing machine... UPS truck off the side of a hill... er... DOES NOT COMPUTE. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
New Burger King breakfast offering outdoes Whopper - Mar. 28, 2005
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/28/news/midcaps/burgerking_breakfast/index.htm?cnn=yes
"Chain debuts Enormous Omelet Sandwich with more calories, fat than Whopper." The King has gone mad! Seems like pretty good gimmicky advertising though.
JON CARROLL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/03/23/DDG27BCCGI1.DTL
"Let's keep cranking out the comatose! Put them all under the care and the protection of the Congress of the United States, the fine fountain of loving-kindness. "
How many 5-year-olds could you take out? - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000370037854
"The following idea started out as just another dumb “what if” conversation over beer and evolved into a highly-structured game with tight rules."
sundaymail - WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, PAL
http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15337120&method=full&siteid=86024&headline=who-the-hell-are-you--pal-name_page.html
"'It's not the first time a Dalek has been foiled by the occupants of a London police box... and I suspect it won't be the last.' "
Matt Croydon::Postneo 2.0 » Mobile Screen Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Python for Series 60
http://www.postneo.com/2005/03/28/mobile-screen-scraping-with-beautifulsoup-and-python-for-series-60
Makes me wish my Treo 600 had Python.
Crazy People Love Davezilla » Davezilla » The Bruise Fairy
http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=304
"He appears at night, lifts up the covers and, after ogling you a bit, gives your thighs, arms and bum and long hard pinch or three."
Weekly World News - Veep Barely Worked His Way Through College
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/61680
"CHENEY WAS A NUDE MODEL ... FOR ART STUDENTS"
New Scientist Breaking News - Contact lenses react to blood-sugar levels
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?feedId=online-news_rss20&id=dn7182
"Contact lenses that change their appearance according to the wearer's blood-sugar level could one day help people with diabetes keep track of their levels non-invasively, new research suggests."
Soundtrack made entirely in SNDREC32.EXE
http://www.ded.kiev.ua/mus.swf
Big Cat Hunting Stilts - Proporta PDA Cases, PDA Cables, PDA Software and PDA Accessories
http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=353&t_mode=des
"make sure you and your loved-ones don't go hungry with the Proporta hunting stilts."
Mocha poured by Bob on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/1356415/in/set-10459
"A lion masterfully executed by Victrola barista Bob." I can't believe how goddamn awesome this is.
The Year of Coffee Blog
http://thecoolkids.us/coffee/index.php
"a dork, a website, and a shitload of coffee"
Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea: The 23rd Psalm er... Cuppa
http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/coffee_and_tea/2005/03/the_23rd_psalm_.html
"Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze."
Hexspeak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
....with a link back to my own HexOddities page.
16.4 turtle -- Turtle graphics for Tk
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-turtle.html
I had no idea Python came with turtle graphics.
Boing Boing: Tigger boning Tickle Me Elmo: Smart toys acting dumb
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/25/tigger_boning_tickle.html
"Stick a Tickle Me Elmo and an electronic Tigger together and they will simulate a really dirty sex scene, as captured on this video."
Tabtastic
http://phrogz.net/JS/Tabtastic/index.html
"This library is a simple way to implement tabs on your page using CSS, a little JS, and semantic markup which degrades gracefully on browsers with CSS unavailable or disabled."
Non-Zero Chance | Shirts and Mugs | Nethack
http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.php?design=nethackroom&p=buypage&style=kshirt
"Thrill to the sight of an at-sign fending off a horde of lower-case letters."
Scsh Reference Manual - Acknowledgements
http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
This makes me want to learn Scsh: "I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals."
Stealing gallery space (kottke.org)
http://www.kottke.org/05/03/stealing-gallery-space
"Banksy went into four of NYC's most prominent museums .. and installed four of his own pieces of art" The ultimate in D.I.Y.
www.mnftiu.cc | get your war on | page 45
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war45.html
"...if I fall into a persistent vegetative state, and Tom DeLay comes within a hundred miles of me, I am to turn into a zombie and rip his fucking head off."
Ikke's Blog - Vim and SCP/SFTP
http://blog.eikke.com/index.php/ikke/2005/02/25/vim_and_scp_sftp
":e scp://username@host/a/file/in/your/homedir" I had absolutely no idea you could do this with Vim.
Warrenellis.com » Joss Whedon Can No Longer Talk Shit About My Facial Hair
http://www.warrenellis.com/index.php?p=497
"Now you’re a proper comics writer, son"
The Rude Pundit - Briefly Noted: "Unanimous" Senate Vote on Schiavo Bill
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/03/briefly-noted-unanimous-senate-vote-on.html
"Only three members were on the floor and the bill's prime sponsor, Republican Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, served as presiding officer." Disgusting as all hell.
t o n x . o r g » I love my job
http://tonx.org/index.php/archives/i-love-my-job
"So when coffee geeks get in a room together the topic rarely drifts away from coffee." Sounds like a nice night to me.
ABC News: Poll: No Role for Government in Schiavo Case
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/PollVault/story?id=599622&page=1
"Federal Intervention in Schiavo Case Prompts Broad Public Disapproval"
CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE -- free bookmarks and stickers
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm
"These stickers and bookmarks are being introduced to increase awareness and appreciation of Charles Darwin." Awesome.
SeeThink™ Productions - DARKON - It's all real until the foam hits you
http://www.seethink.com/n_darkon.html
You can make fun of LARP'ing all you want, but damn those geeks have fun.
Mark A. R. Kleiman: Schiavo, Hudson, and Nikolouzos
http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/_/2005/03/schiavo_hudson_and_nikolouzos.php
"What I can't figure out is how someone could be genuinely outraged about the Schiavo case but not about the Hudson and Nikolouzos cases."
b3ta.com - "I'll show those bastards"
http://www.b3ta.com/board/4402926
Wherein a Dozer gets his revenge on the Fraggles.
.: jsolait.net :.
http://jsolait.net
"The goal is to ease JavaScript development by building a library of reusable modules and components and enhancing JavaScript with simpler Class and Module handling mechanisms."
Questionable Content: Post-Funny
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=316
"He's like an incontinent kitten. Endearing, but you don't want it on top of you."
Feedhacks
http://www.feedhacks.com/blog
A new blog about feed hacks - I wish I'd thought of grabbing this domain :)
The Average Joe
http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe
"Book Publishing and Technology Perspectives"
:: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog :: The Needs of the One
http://www.rushkoff.com/2005/03/needs-of-one.php
"If only the Michael Jackson judge had permitted cameras in the courtroom..."
CNN.com - Pet store owner: Satan's image on turtle's shell - Mar 21, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/21/evil.turtle.ap/index.html
Looks like a mindly annoyed bunny, to me.
Manas Garg - Evolution of a Programmer.
http://manasgarg.blogspot.com/2004/12/evolution-of-programmer.html
Jackie Chan to Bruce Willis to James Bond. Funny, true.
Subversion Users: Re: Convert from bdb to fsfs
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-02/0557.shtml
"Yes, it's simple"
QDN: Congress’s own words on Schiavo
http://q.queso.com/archives/001630
"This is so much worse than I originally thought. Is there any doubt that this is a horrible violation of both separation of powers and states’ rights?"
Xbox with New Replacement Cords Still Dangerous
http://www.xbox-scene.com/index.php?newsview=1#newsitemEEEEEApFuEPfcZdkPo
Microsoft is attempting to offset liability, rather than repair the actual issue.
The Furrygoat Experience: Rant: Install Programs
http://www.furrygoat.com/2005/03/rant_install_pr.html
"So I'm going to finally say it: I HATE INSTALL PROGRAMS."
Muralist's vision has jail staring him in face
http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/mural18e_20050218.htm
"In 39A District Judge Marco Santia's eyes, it's a crime." ...whereas the Judge's decision is obscene.
Who Will Free Fiona Apple?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/03/16/notes031605.DTL
"Fiona Apple is singing anew, despite the corporate crackdown and the RIAA sneers"
Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: -2000 Lines Of Code
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
"When he got to the lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the number: -2000."
Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPasties
http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest
"The XMLHttpRequest object is a handy dandy JavaScript object that offers a convenient way for webpages to get information from servers without refreshing themselves."
They tried to kill him with a forklift! Ole! | MetaFilter
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40421
I'd never seen this before. Damn this is funny.
Linux Magazine Online - jCIFS: The SMB Can Opener
http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/127/2123
"jCIFS provides all of the tools a Java coder needs to get along in a Windows Network Neighborhood"
SuperTab - Do all your insert-mode completion with Tab! : vim online
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=182
Wow, now this is hott.
Contrary Brin: Aside: How the US saved the world by buying vast amounts of stuff...
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/03/aside-how-us-saved-world-by-buying.html
"We spent and spent and spent, and in the long run, what we bought was hope for the world..."
Acetylene.net » Managing Podcasts with AppleScript
http://www.acetylene.net/archives/2005/03/14/managing-podcasts-with-applescript
"In my last entry on the subject of podcasts, I mentioned that I was planning on writing an AppleScript to help me manage the podcasts to which I subscribe."
Durbster.co.uk - bridge
http://www.durbster.co.uk/content/bridge/bridge15.shtml
"The ongoing story of the persistent attempts to get to the other side."
Unsanity.org: Productivity Killer Killed
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000392.php
"If you don't understand, I am so glad for you. Seriously."
Plogit - An Open-Source PalmOS Blogging Client
http://plogit.sourceforge.net
Kirkville - Unleashing the Power of the PowerMate
http://www.mcelhearn.com/article.php?story=20050113105330770
"...cool is one thing, but not one of the articles I read, nor the manufacturer's Web site, did a good job of describing how I might apply the PowerMate to my everyday tasks."
Scriptable Applications: Printing & Print Center
http://www.apple.com/applescript/print
"Note that the PDF workflow button is hidden by default."
blockquotes.js
http://philwilson.org/scripts/blockquotes.js
JavaScript that will automagically add hyperlinks after blockquotes with a URL in its cite attribute.
Command-Tab » Blog Archive » iPod Super
http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/ipod-super
"Ultimately, I’d like to get a regular 3.5″ hard drive working with the iPod and explore what capacities it can make use of."
Language Log: No word for sex
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001979.html
'Whenever you hear someone starting to say something that begins with "The X have no word for Y", or "The X have N different words for Y", never listen to them, and always check your wallet to make sure it's still there.'
dooce: Email: Best wishes in growing up
http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/03_08_2005.html
"WE FIND that we know where you work, Matt Jackson, and that this company isn’t going to take kindly toward one of their principals sending bizarre, misogynistic diatribes to a public figure."
beck black tambourine
http://www.partizan.us/musicvideos/ais/beck.html
Looks like a Beck video run through some funky ascii-art/aalib filters. Very cool.
techno.blog("Dion"): Iron Coder: TV for programmers
http://www.almaer.com/blog/archives/000806.html
"Have you seen the goofy T.V. show Iron Chef, where they have an episode to compete on their culinary skills? I would love to create: Iron Coder."
Amazon.com: Books: Hacking RSS and Atom
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764597582/104-1525140-4583148
Hey, wait a minnit... that's me!
Electrolite: Delicate sensibilities.
http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/006150.html
"Give me one good reason CNN won’t show this ad."
ongoing · It’s Not Dangerous
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/03/08/BloggingIsGood
"Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career"
Noets - An IRC Weblog System - noets
http://inamidst.com/eph/noets
"Noets was originally conceived in 2003-10 as a simple way to take notes from IRC and publish them as a weblog"
ITworld.com - Gmail, Technorati, WinFS - cogitating reticulation
http://www.itworld.com/App/4108/nls_ebizgmail050308
"Welcome to the World Wide Web where the only thing that is completely predictable is its total unpredictability."
PalmInfocenter.com: Quake, Doom and Hexen ports for Palm OS
http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7662
"A Palm OS developer in France has ported 3 classic PC first person shooter games over to the Palm OS." OMG WTF LOL
HometownAnnapolis.com, Top Stories - SUV driver takes off with gas nozzle and hose
http://www.capitalonline.com/cgi-bin/read/2005/02_25-23/TOP
"SUV driver takes off with gas nozzle and hose" Jackass.
Sticky Windows 1.0.1 - 12th Dec 2004
http://www.donelleschi.com/stickywindows
"Sticky Windows is an utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) which extends the tab browsing experience to the Desktop."
:: cleverdevil ::: Introducing NPR Cast
http://www.cleverdevil.org/computing/22/introducing-npr-cast
"...download the radio streams from NPR’s website, convert them to very nicely compressed MP3’s with full ID3 tags, and then add them to iTunes (and thus, your iPod)." Iiiinteresting.
Pugs - pugscode
http://pugscode.org
"Pugs is an implementation of Perl 6, written in Haskell." What, you couldn't've written it in Perl 5? :)
The Not Al Page: The top Weird Al songs he didn't write.
http://free.house.cx/~eil/etc/notal.html
The Biofeedback Blog » Blog Archive » HRV helps asthma?
http://www.bio-medical.com/blog?p=6
Hilarious Mime Routine
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/torn.html
"I have never in my life enjoyed watching a mime."
Douglas Rushkoff - Evolution is a team sport, not a competition.
http://www.rushkoff.com/2005/03/evolution-as-team-sport.php
JavaScriptTemplates - TrimPath - Trac
http://trimpath.com/project/wiki/JavaScriptTemplates
"For web application developers, the JavaScript Templates engine from TrimPath is a lightweight APL / GPL open-source component that lets you have template-based programming (like PHP/ASP/JSP) while running in a web browser."
Carly's Way
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/03/wo/wo_delio030405.asp?p=2
"To me, this rabid fixation on short-term profits is a bigger threat than outsourcing -- it is killing our ability to make astonishing things."
My Cat Abraham Lincoln (Ftrain.com)
http://www.ftrain.com/RenameTheCat.html
"I am grateful that I can pull the bag off of his head. It's simple enough but it means the world to him."
Charlie's Diary - Brief Gloat
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2005/03/05#writing-110
"And part of his job description includes running the company weblog." The aftermath of Joe Gordon, Waterstones employee fired with blogging as the excuse.
Alexander Payne » They Stopped Calling It Rendezvous
http://www.al3x.net/archives/2005/02/22/they-stopped-calling-it-rendezvous
"maria: I have 703.4MB of your music. Beautiful, sad music"
apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)
http://interconnected.org/home/2005/03/04/apples_powerbook
"I feel kind of indignant, like my laptop is wilfully ignoring me. It seems inert, a lump of metal deliberately cutting itself off from the rest of the universe. A deaf, dead machine."
SCIFI.COM | Battlestar Galactica Podcast
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast
NEWS.com.au | Cows hold grudges, say scientists (28-02-2005)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12390397-13762,00.html
"...cows have a complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges, researchers have found."
Boing Boing: Dr. Who remake coming to UK, Canada, NZ; mixed reviews
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/03/dr_who_remake_coming.html
"Scifi network in the US reportedly passed." Morons.
Simon Willison: Problems with Trac? Switch to FSFS
http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/03/04/trac
"Subversion 1.1 introduces a new storage mechanism called FSFS."
Scent of a Robot
http://www.uvphactory.com/Portfolio/robot
"I'm a robot / programmed not to know that / I'm a robot" Very cool.
PalmOrb: Use your PalmOS PDA as a LCD status display via serial, USB, BlueTooth or IR
http://palmorb.sourceforge.net
"PalmOrb is software that allows you to use your PalmOS device as a LCD status display for your computer!"
Matrix URIs - Ideas about Web Architecture
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html
URIs with name/value pairs and rules for relative URIs
XML.com: Show Me the Code
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/02/restful.html
Plotting out a REST-centric del.icio.us mini-clone
The Elements of Computing Systems - The MIT Press
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=07873119-8030-4BDF-873A-701A40370E36&tid=10218&ttype=2
Advanced Internet Technologies - The Elements of Computing Systems - Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs
"The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch..." I wants me this book.
IBM backs open-source Web software | CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/IBM+backs+open-source+Web+software/2100-7344_3-5589559.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=5587315
"IBM is putting its corporate heft behind a popular open-source Web development technology called PHP, in a move meant to reach out to a broader set of developers."