- You might've heard about how Bill Gates hands over reins of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer. Dan Gillmor's From Microsoft to CBS has more about Ballmer. Ballmer puts a different face on Microsoft. Speaking of Microsoft, The Passport Payment is the story of the guy who paid for passport.com when they missed their payment.
- Usenet Death Penalty Notice: @Home Network. The war on spam continues, and this time it's a big target. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes @Home to respond.
- D I T H E R A T I gives you a daily quote in which the digerati dither.
- The Register offers 102 ways to kill your computer.
- Bubbles in Guinness Do Go Down. Well. That explains it. And here I always thought it was some sort of optical delusion or the result of having too many pints. The original press release is at Fluent on Guinness.
- Pie Throwin' Man: Fighting the power with cream tartlets.
- VH1's 100 best rock songs. I guess I can't argue too much with it.
- The Register says Apple consumed by consumers. They nailed down the uneasy feeling I've had about Mac OS X since reading the reports of the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. Apple damn well better put in some off switches for these crowd-wowing but productivity diminishing features.
- New weapon in gun control debate: Common sense. There are a lot of links in this one, too.
- The New York Post asks If Rocker is crazy, what about Turner? It's a pretty good point they make.
- How to elect a shifty-eyed weasel urges you not to withhold your vote from supposedly unelectable candidates. One of the main features of the shifty-eyed weasel is being electable by never taking a firm stand.