this story about the critical points in the american infrastructure is very interesting. having people want to pay you to shut up is a good signal that you did something worthwhile.#

tony pierce applauds madpony for being wholesome and wonderfully unique in that they are normal and nice. what a novel concept. normally conflict and sex is all that sells (at least according to popular media), and unfortunately, i'm buying.#

awesome article at daring fireball that talks about men's hair pieces, advertising, bad anti-mac pundits, terrible web site design, good weblogs as 'coloumns', that "independent need not mean volunteer", and much, much more. df truly considers his readers of the highest caliber: "When you create anything for public consumption, you must make assumptions regarding the audience. Regarding you, courteous reader of Daring Fireball, I assume the following. You are intelligent. You appreciate good design and careful writing. You use a modern web browser that supports reasonably established web standards. Your time is valuable."#

a review of unlimited saga. it's hard.#

interesting article about how an invisibility cloak would have to work. (from don park)#

guido leaves zope, i don't use python or zope but i'm interested in open source celebrities.#

do comments on weblogs make sense or are they just a step back in time?#

ponie cool from use perl#

matthew linderman dislikes the same stuff i dislike about amazon wish lists.#