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Postel's Law has two parts. 

Andrew Thomas: "Welcome to MIT. When you move into your new rooms and set up your computers, make sure your lawyer is on speed dial." 

David Weinberger is blogging the Dean campaign, from the press bus. Six posts so far. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Important: He has endorsed Dean.  

BBC: "Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, has announced plans to give the public full access to all the corporation's programme archives." 

Cory Doctorow Boston Globe op-ed on Net politics. 

Tuesday morning I'm going to take the Do Not Deploy caveat off the MetaWeblog API spec. If there are any deal-stoppers, please let me know about them in the next couple of days. 

Sun has a tutorial on RSS, including software that parses RSS files from Java.  

A picture named newton.jpgChris Lydon interviews James Gleick on his biography of Sir Isaac Newton. "Almost everything we know about apples and moons in motion and at rest, about time, space, gravity, inertia, differential and integral calculus, occurred to Isaac Newton in his early twenties, working in isolation through the London plague years of 1665 and 1666." 

NYT Magazine profile of Harvard president Larry Summers. 

Two years ago today we opened a Manila site that made it possible for developers to test their implementation of the Blogger API against UserLand's. People are still posting to it, two years later. That's a thorough test!  

Three years ago: "If you think your shit doesn't stink, I recommend getting a second opinion." 

     

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