- As the new year opens, I find myself wondering about the point of this exercise. I find links, and a few folks seem to enjoy 'em, but I'm not finding as many brand new sites as I used to. I'm finding links to items within sites. And I find myself wondering if this is because there aren't new voices out there on the net, or whether it's a matter of me having gotten too lazy to actually hunt out the new stuff.
- BBspot - Your Tech Humor Source
- HowStuffWorks.com is pretty cool. Not only that, it started with one guy writing all the articles. Now it's a real company. I hope they manage to make enough money to keep it running.
- Mandate for Net filters debated - If Texas public schools don't block porn from their computers, they could lose as much as $123 million in federal money. Once again, the US government is regulating by extortion. And of course, it's in the name of protecting children.
- What we can do after Wakefield is allow law-abiding folks to carry firearms. Well, or just shoot the idiots who abuse firearms in public, but it boils down to the same thing.
- The Register's Everything you wanted to know about CPRM, but ZDNet wouldn't tell you is a quick overview of what's bad about the proposal to add copy protection to generic hardware. CNet suckered by CPRM spin gives you a picture of the spin that's going on.
- Pentium 4 Slower Than Its Predecessor - it's at the NY Times, so you need to register, but it's nice to see the mainstream press finally notice that there's more to speed than megahertz.
- Alan Bock is Waiting for politicians to catch up and lead in ending the war on (some) drugs. Ahem. Prohibition worked so well in the thirties. And why are we trying it again?