- Columbia Newsblaster, summarizes all the news on the web, like Google News, but with smarter software behind it. I’m pretty sure it’s making it into my morning news.
- Trying to decide between a Mac and a Windows machine? Read The Mac is a Harsh Mistress and maybe it’ll make things clearer. Or at least give you a smile. [vowe]
- Bill, over at Eject! Eject! Eject! has a very long essay on Strength, in two parts: part 1 and part 2. He takes a look at our current war on terrorism, and points out many reasons why it should be a war on radical Islam. Yes, it’s an extremely long post to wade through, but there are a lot of good points in there. The title refers to the strength needed to see this war through and keep civilization going.
- Chris Allen is Hand-Crafting My FOAF. A FOAF is an emerging standard for describing friend-of-a-friend relationships, like friendster or orkut does, but where you control the data. Looks interesting, but still a little too rough for me to spend much time on yet. [bill]
- Mark Pilgrim wrote Freedom 0 over a week ago, and I’m just finding it now. But hey, that’s what archives are for, right? Anyway, it talks about why Free Software is important, and why b2 (and it’s children) are better choices than Movable Type.