- Silicon Genesis is a collection of oral histories of Silicon Valley on videotape. At the moment, you need to go to California to see them, but maybe they'll put 'em online some day.
- Marylaine Block wonders how we are learning to be competent without knowledge being passed down the generations. It's a good question.
- If I play Guess the Dictator/Sit-Com Character but answer for myself, I end up as Barney Gumble if I say I drink Duff Beer (I actually drink mostly Summit, which is nothing like Duff, and I'd be Homer if I worked in a nuclear plant), Magnum, P.I. if I claim to drive a Ferrari, or Jim Rockford if I don't. Hmm. Do I need to get a Ferrari? I've got the 1992 Camaro, which I think makes me more Rockfordesque (though I really should have a 1979 Firebird).
- Joe Clark has a review of Usability at epinions.com. He should make it an epinion! Or perhaps not.
- Bury the news at Wounded Knee - The Grass Roots Oglala Lakota Oyate took over Wounded Knee on January 16th. Why did it take so long to hear about it? Probably because the atmosphere this time is peaceful.
- Rich Gray on Two Patent Topics is another update on the patent situation. He has some insights I haven't seen elsewhere.