20. December, 2002 - web life
- How was the show has An Interview with Kari Tauring about her upcoming 4th Annual Yuletide Celebration at Patrick's Cabaret. It started last night. [Jim]
- Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet [registration required]. Well, of course they want to monitor everything. But monitoring the whole net might just be a bit trickier than they expect. There's a lot of internet out there. [scripting]
- TIA, Poindexter, and the Incredibly Shrinking .Mil Website talks about how the Eye of Horus (and other information) has disappeared from the IAO website. But it being the web, there are archives. (Note that the same thing happened over at FEMA a while back when Operation TIPS got outlawed.) [boing boing]
- Vanishing Act: The U.S. Government's Disappearing Data. It's not just the Eye of Horus that's gone missing.
Government-sponsored (which is to say, taxpayer-funded) information and research is disappearing from government web sites, much of it in the name of national security.
And those government websites are disappearing just after Bush signed the E-Government Act of 2002. No irony there, I'm sure.
- Free Speech -- Virtually. There's a lot of people putting stuff in their blogs that can get them in trouble. Well, yeah. There's going to be some of that because people don't always think before they speak, and blogging tools have made posting something to the net pretty easy. And on the other side of the coin, people don't know what their rights are, either. Your employer does not own you. You have a contract of some sort with them. Have you ever read it? And remember, if you put it on the web, it could be "out there" forever. Archives. Google Cache.[scripting]
- AOL patents instant messaging, which seems to be causing a pretty big stink. Apparently nobody in the patent office is old enough to remember the prior art of PLATO , among plenty of others.
- The XML Family Tree A bird's eye view of the huge family of XML specifications, all clickable for your convenience. [Reed, via James Strachan's Radio Weblog]
- 'Do not call' telemarketing list for nation unveiled, and this one has penalties that could go as high as $11k. [strib]
- Bye Telemarketing, Hi More Spam?. They'll be forced to advertise somehow, so they'll probably turn to the cheapest method available. But would anyone actually notice? I'd probably end up having to tighten up the filters a bit, but I was planning to do that anyhow. Things are slipping through, and the only false-positive lately was a "your package shipped" message from L.L.Bean that I really didn't need to see anyhow.
- And finally, in a more typical Friday kind of vibe, sometimes, reading Joey's blog, I think to myself: I gotta get me an accordion. Free beer!
- Maybe you should learn Bar Sign Language, because, after all, you can't drink when you're talking.
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Last updated on Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:08:34.