June 1999

• The Perception Lab is trying to figure out what makes faces pretty. There's an online experiment.
• The Register: iMac notebook OEM tells all
• Y2K bug sinks Third World trade. Iran's using the Islamic calendar to put the problem off for 580 years.

Weather in Minneapolis for June 25, 1999     June 25 in History

• Been dumped? Breakup Girl 2.0 can help. Even if you haven't, the comics are fun.
• The Weekly is a fair attempt at an English Onion.
• Bizarre stuff you can make in your kitchen!
• Jakob Nielsen: Trust on the Web
• C'est Need To Know! is the weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk.
• Cryptome is a daily list of Crypto related articles. My only complaint is that they make copies of things rather than linking to the original.

Weather in Minneapolis for June 22, 1999     June 22 in History

• Einstein's gray matter was unique says a study published in The Lancet: The exceptional brain of Albert Einstein. (registration required)
• EPIC's report on Cryptography and Liberty 1999.
• R.I.P. Divx. Dan Gillmor says Good Riddance to DIVX.
• A gaggle of stories from The Register: IT manager fired for lunchtime Web surfing. MS boffin votes for Russian Merced Killer. Texan pirate banged up in German jail. The first German prosecution of software piracy.
• Agax may be the replacement for Disinfectant I've been looking for.
• The Macintosh Viruses looks like a good resource, too.
• Don Crabb writes Rumor: The selling of Apple.
• Dan Gillmor: Shootout at the NT corral pits Linux against NT in benchmarks.
• Webmonkey: The Web Isn't Free. This article talks about advertising on the web and how to make money with a website. The answer: it ain't easy.

Weather in Minneapolis for June 18, 1999     June 18 in History

• Wired: A Search for Intelligent Searchers - Seems SETI@home hasn't been sending out new data since May.
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It...Again list past predictions of the end. On Geocities, so you may want to turn off JavaScript first.
• Webmonkey: Hailing iCab
• Salon profile of Steve Jobs
• NASA's JTrack lets you track the shuttle, Mir and other spacecraft.
• How to Manage Geeks
• Forbes: Coal-fired PCs - One lump of coal to download two megabytes.
• Holler! is the semi-official Web site for the National Hollerin' Contest
• Kaliber10000 has a desktop exhibition [broken link] that's got some pretty cool desktops. Claims to work best in IE, but it seems to function in other browsers.
• Star Wars Euphemisms for Masturbation is one of the Top 5 Lists.
• The Angry White Male [broken link] is not Politically Correct.

Weather in Minneapolis for June 11, 1999     June 11 in History

• The New York Times reports on the Right to Bear Arms: A Second Look.
• Claire Wolfe's Lodge. Claire writes FreeLife [broken link] for WorldNetDaily.
• Ticker Shock Strikes Techies - Hey, I'm rich. Now what?
• Justin Frankel sells Nullsoft for between $8e7 and $1e8.
• Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design
• Tog: When Interfaces Kill.
• Dan Gillmor says don't take the Cox report on blind faith.
• The Science of Secrecy is an article by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
• Careful, they might hear you. The only real surprise is that it went public. We ARE Being Watched! has more links.
• The Register says US crypto law cover for industrial spookery.
• Out of curiosity, I did some comparing using Fortune's cost of living calculator. The difference has grown since I moved back to Minnesota. Minneapolis vs. Sunnyvale Mpls vs. San Jose Mpls vs. Mountain View Mpls vs. Palo Alto

Weather in Minneapolis for June 4, 1999     June 4 in History