August 2001 archive: markpasc.org weblog

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			1 No online Button Men Bwaha, Robert Scoble	2 Gyricon e-paper (Xerox PARC) Coke’s anti-water page missing Code Red redux (BBC News sci/tech, The Register)	3 Carlin: Online and Off-Color (Wired News Radio) MindShareWare activity Obsoletion of the handwritten signature? CD destickering technique Be sacks 28 staff, takeover imminent (The Register) Girls Dig Demos Too (Wired News) The Web’s Grand Planners (XML.com)	4
5 Whee for party thing	6 Jim Henson Company, Inc, files trademark on "Scaper" Deconstructing the Dead: “Crossing over” to expose the tricks of popular spirit mediums (Scientific American) Woot! SVG modularization! Electronic Game Maker Lets Kids Do Their Marketing for Them (NY Times)	7 Keystroke logging is a national security issue Blogger XML-RPC API When wierdos get together (Disenchanted) Yes, Virginia, Google turns a Who Will Be the Buyer of Be, Inc.? (osOpinion) Cryptonomicon review (hackingthemainframe.com)	8 Wired News more popular than Slashdot among Radio users Clear Channel radio monopoly shenanigans (Salon via Plastic) FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge (Reuters via Yahoo) Samurai Jack review (Sci Fi Wire)	9 MUF icon Bryan Bell’s nice FragDifferent design “The skinny on Majestic” (Lum the Mad) Gary Groth vs Scott McCloud in more web comics whatnot (Salon, The Comics Journal)	10 My class schedule Life After Death Sentence “Coolness and suckitude” Coolness and suckitude by Cory Doctorow (decentralization)	11 In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell blo.gs Help Save the History of the BBS (kuro5hin)
12 Full text of Cluetrain Manifesto online	13 FurryMUCK on Fuzzball 6 soon Bruce Sterling on missingmatter, now that I’m cogent US drug testing chess players (AP at Yahoo) The real Talking Moose returns (Wired News) Josh Allen expounds on Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions (missingmatter)	14 Morons, but just for a minute (Disenchanted) SPR brouhaha Layers of Separation: The Future of Programming (Slant-Six) Mystery of crashing HP printers	15	16 Microsoft Quietly Removes Plugin Support From IE (Plastic) Horoscope Palm buys Be (The Register) Welcome To College; With Any Luck, You Might Graduate (Plastic) XML and lies Living Magick Hydrogen fuel on Art Bell Live Animals	17 Farscape five days a week Disease brings poor crop of circles (BBC News) That last episode of Farscape	18 Even the Associated Press wants Controlling the weather inside Web working Google upgrades the Web (DaveNet)
19	20 Exhausted	21 Now easier to swallow (Disenchanted) Tennessee news Users and participants [UK] Government unveils biggest ever big brother investment (Guardian) Textbook Cases of Bankruptcy (Wired News) “Schismatrix” and awakenings	22	23 [Dr Joe] Dumas Hits Proposed Signal Mountain Tax Hike (The Chattanoogan) COMBED OVER!!! (the eXile) blah Shuttle landing	24 XP invasion is imminent (Wired News) Barcelona songs Stephen Jay Gould speaks out against science paparazzi (The Onion)	25 Doesn’t anybody who knows how to write software run a web board? SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!! Neil Finn City-Based Firm Leading Internet Streaming Provider (The Chattanoogan) Yahoo! vs sex.com averted (Metafilter) Farscape meets The Matrix (well, not exactly) (Farscape News)
26 After looking up more MUCK Please help me, I’m falling (Guardian Unlimited Observer)	27 Special music video Toonami: Midnight Run on Friday Scarfo: Feds Plead for Secrecy (Wired News) Adbusters #37 Scripting News mentions the JabNews The Dictionary.com Word of the Campus music trades continue (Wired News)	28 NOPs, NOPs everywhere, but not a cycle in use (Kuro5hin) Ex-Apple brains to lead Palm software revival (The Register)	29 Some people who know me	30 Anyhow, in chronological order: I’m Who Wants to Be a Cheapass? (boardgames.about.com) Talk to Me (Alternet: Techsploitation) Science Fiction Weekly garbage	31 Everything Makes Me Think About Sex (Barcelona) More junk this morning: Yes, Sony kills off eVilla Net appliance (The Register) Some Metafilter commentary on Dave

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