- Excite@Home turns off Internet service to ATT customers and some of the mailing lists I'm on have gotten much quieter. And the bondholders are going to find themselves with a company that's worth even less than the $307million AT&T offered to pay.
- Plotting Along with mass-market novels. Where are the good writers?
Bank Error in Your Favor, Collect $250,000! It seems almost too good to be
true.
- Boom Box talks about the TiVo and Replay. It's a good, if somewhat long article. And it's from over three months ago. Sometimes it takes me a while to find things.
- The Little Engine That Could Be. When can I get one for my laptop? When will it not set my pants on fire?
- The value and empowerment of common citizens in an age of danger. Big government agencies can't react quickly. People, acting more or less on their own, can. Which is why moving to a police state (as we seem to be doing) is exactly the wrong approach to dealing with terroristic threats. The more totalitarian the government becomes, the more the terrorists win.
- And for a bit of humor, 40 Things Never Said By Southerners.