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Slate: "First movers get creamed more often than not, but they leave behind much-beloved corpses." ![]() NY Times report on Eldred v Ashcroft. ![]() Jim Seymour, a long-time contributor to PC Magazine, died yesterday. Best wishes to his family and colleagues. ![]() Here's a new version of Doc Searls's RSS feed, it's based on the OPML version, and it should work, fingers crossed, knock on Murphy, praise wood. ![]() InfoWorld: Microsoft eases copy protection in XP. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sidenote. It's interesting that the Google News search for XDocs didn't turn up the FAQ page on Microsoft's website. ![]() Don Park: "Microsoft's XDocs sounds very similar to the product I have been building." ![]() Organica crawls weblogs and "makes statistics on what's popular right now, related sites, who links to who, which tools are being used, webservers being used for weblogs and so on." ![]() Alan Reiter: "The hardest substance on Earth isn't a diamond, but the thick, dense skulls of wireless data marketing executives at cellular companies." ![]() Thanks to Cory Doctorow for the link to the Yale LawMeme report on the US Supreme Court argument in Eldred v Ashcroft, earlier today in Washington. ![]() Thanks to TiVO I was able to catch up on the season premiere of Law and Order. The new District Attorney is played by a sitting US Senator from Tennessee, Fred Thompson. A real politician playing the role of a politician. Hmmmm. ![]() BBC: "The number of users taking advantage of illegal file-sharing on the net is on the rise, according to new figures from analyst firm Jupiter Media." Illegal? ![]() NY Times: "ABC, CBS and NBC may not have covered the president's speech in Cincinnati on Monday night, but it was still one of the most-watched television events of the evening." ![]() You say potato and I say potato. You say tomato and I say tomato. Potato, potato, tomato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off! ![]() Lots of great suggestions for the software designer nomination for Wired. Thanks. ![]() When I was a kid ![]() My parents had two friends Alice and Ralph (not their real names). Alice was from Missouri and Ralph from France. They were married and had three kids, two boys and a girl, and lived in the same apartment complex we did in Queens. Ralph was a wannabe magnate. He was going to pattern his family after the Rothschilds, who like Ralph were from France and Jewish. Now I was just a kid, but I thought he was silly bordering on pathetic. I wanted to tell him, hey schmuck, you live in an apartment in Queens. You aren't a Rothschild. You aren't the alpha male in a dynasty of rich French Jews. But I didn't say it, because who was I to piss on his dream. I was just a kid. Back then they slapped kids with attitudes. Heh. I hadn't thought of him in this way for many years until I was reminded by another almost-broke Jew with dreams of grandeur. It's okay to have dreams, but don't get arrogant about it until you achieve them, and even then, there's nothing worse than a sore winner. |
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