July 1999

• The Register: Seven months to download a file at Screaming.net.
• The Register: Web sites liable under local law. Can you say chilling effect?
• The Register: FBI wants to snoop on private networks to protect us from cyber-terrorism.
• Microsoft and the Bavarian Illuminati - plausible enough.
• A new role in Silicon Valley: start-up mom.
• Wired: The Return of the Geezer Geeks.
• Rick Wakeman's Communications Centre for the aging prog-rocker in all of us.
• Wanna know where Yosemite Sam first appeared? The Warner Bros Cartoon Companion will tell you.
• The WebExhibits Catalogue will point you to top-quality educational and explanatory sites.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 30, 1999     July 30 in History

• Breakfast at Fry's - another reminder of something I don't miss from California.
• Why go to college when you can attend Start-Up U? This isn't a new thing.
• Scientific American: How to Steal Millions in Chump Change.
• Precautionary disconnect is a disturbing trend in computer "security". The reason the Government is vulnerable to hackers is that they lack trained personnel and don't follow security plans.
• Wired: Slaves of the Net no more and Caste System of the Digital Age.
• The Register: The man who ate the Y2K bug.
• ABCNEWS.com: Crack the CIA's Secret Code.
• San Jose Mercury News: Patent War Pending. Software patents sure do complicate things.
• The Ad Critic is All Ads, All The Time. QuickTime versions of the annoying things in the middle of your favorite TV shows.
• Culture break: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: The treasures of the czars. National Archives Exhibit Hall: Cool history in the US, and The People's Photos are found photographs.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 23, 1999     July 23 in History

• Bill Cheswick and Hal Burch's Internet Mapping Project is pretty cool.
• CNN: The evil and traumatic side of Windows NT.
• Want a 2-metre resolution photo of your house? SPIN-2 is the answer.
• The TerraServer is the self-proclaimed best place to buy satellite imagery.
• The Register: US Congress sits while Web whizzes by. Who's going to ensure privacy on the web?
• San Jose Mercury News: Harried workers slam doors on stress of high-tech life.
• Dr. Dobb's: A Brief History of Unix and the Internet.
• The Register: IRA prisoners' details leaked on second hand PC. Remember to scrub your hard drive before selling your computer.
• Dan Gillmor: Privacy protection online is badly needed.
• Salon: Don't you know that it's different for girls? explores the double-standard in movie ratings.
• Alertbox: Web Research: Believe the Data.
• A Parable: Kissing Hank's Ass.

Weather in Minneapolis for July 16, 1999     July 16 in History

• Slate Magazine: The Love Bloat.
• CNN: Slow sites cost vendors billions - I tried to order sandals some Teva Sport Sandals online, but ended up going to the store because of the slow server.
• Wired: Can the Internet Drive You Mad?
• The Register: Internet set to bring down society.
• Robert X. Cringely: Let It Ride: Fantasy Meets Reality on the IPO Trail.
• David Brin: Star Wars despots vs. Star Trek populists - make sure to check out the sidebar, too.
• Mac OS Open Source Software.
• Doug Grow: Sheriff thinks gun policy safer.
• Stewart Alsop: Have I Told You Lately That I Hate Windows?

Weather in Minneapolis for July 10, 1999     July 10 in History

• The Register: What tickles your thigh and has two sausage-like appendages?
• The FBI says Tim Leary was a fink.
• The Register: Control Data to be snapped up by BT. The end of an era....
• The book behind the book behind the book... describes the process of getting Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing turned into dead trees.
• Abandoned Missile Base VR Tour. Interesting.
• The Register: Big Blue wins contract with God. And The Register is five years old.
• DynIP offers a static domain name for those with dynamic IP addresses. Spiffy.
• Kasparov vs. The World - I don't think Chess By Committee is going to work as well as people hope.
• Contract Piecework should be stopped (the assembly of electronics by independants, paid by the piece).
• The Secret Freedom Fighter and Ozymandias' Sabotage Handbook offer suggestions for monkeywrenching government, as does Screwing Up Dr. Spook's Data
• Haddock Directory is a list of sites. Not unlike a mini-yahoo.
• Encarta 'facts' vary, depending on edition. microsoft playing fast and loose with the truth? INCONCEIVABLE!

Weather in Minneapolis for July 2, 1999     July 2 in History