- NoWebPatents.org is fighting amazon.com. The affiliate program patent is not a good way for Amazon to encourage more affiliates. It's making me drop out of their program. noamazon.com offers alternatives to everything the evil folks in Seattle offer. And from O'Reilly.com: Ask Tim -- Software Patents Issue.
- In some good news, DoubleClick backs down. We'll see what they actually do, but it sounds like they're finally aware of the issue. DoubleClick throws in the towel on profiling has more from The Register.
- BBC: Bearded drinkers lose out and Irish Times on Guinness Research both got sent to me shortly after being published. I wonder if it's got anything to do with me having a beard and drinking Guinness? And Turly sends me A Pint of Guinness, which has even more trivia about the black stuff. Finally (?) Yet another Pint of Guinness mentions the benefits of having Guinness in your facial hair.
- Faisal Jawdat's Quotes File has an awful lot of quotes. Many of them got added to my rotating email sigs. And I even appear in it. Huh!
- Stickdeath.com tells one How to deal with bank robbers.
- Speaking of death, Hasbro to make JFK action figure. Maybe I'm just sick, but I wonder how many kids will be blowing the heads off 'em with BB-guns?
- And continuing the morbid theme, Computer expert Don Crabb dies. He'll be missed.
