February 1999

• Virginia to outlaw spam. Another state (significant because AOL lives there) joins the Forces of Good.
• The FDIC tells banks to Know Your Customer. Spooky development on the privacy front.
• Internet Death Cult of Fun. It's Fun. It's a QUALITY death cult!
• Loot the dead! Maybe they should hook up with the death cult. Or with the Corpses For Sale folks.
• Apple Employee Fired For Thinking Different. Gotta like The Onion.
• "@Home's license to do as it will".
• Stanford Wearables Lab is featuring the World's Smallest Web Server.
• SpinnWebe: Three-Ring UPS - I'm not the only one that's frustrated with 'em.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 26, 1999     February 26 in History

• Hold the Mayo (2/18/1999) - The orginal Togo's closes.
• The Economist: Hackers rule.
• Stock fraud booming on the Net (2/16/1999)
• Ain't It Cool News covers the film industry.
• Programmers won't do Windows.
• A trio of Mountain Dew Hillbilly sites (I liked the Hillbilly idea a lot better than the "Do The Dew" campaign):
  • Hillbilly Mountain Dew Mystery
  • Ya-hooo! Mountain Dew
  • Mountain Dew Bottle Collectors

Weather in Minneapolis for February 19, 1999     February 19 in History

• Red Herring's Top 10 stocks for 1999.
• "They" dance.
• Need some military experience? Join the North Dakota Navy.
• Apparently there's a need for the Philosophy News Service. I didn't realize the world of philosophy was such a happening place.
• The Tao of Programming. Fun.
• Corpses For Sale. Just in case you needed one.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 12, 1999     February 12 in History

• Got Milk? Yeah. In a BAG. Maybe I'm turning into a grumpy old man.
• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys. Huh. This isn't self-serving. Really.
• Forum 2000 is a front end to a sophisticated expert system incorporating the latest breakthroughs in natural language and neural network research. And it's cool.
• War of the Word. PC hits new heights.
• Dictionary.com is useful if you're not sure what words mean.
• Jeff Cooper's Commentaries are not PC.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 5, 1999     February 5 in History