General

I’ve been quiet lately.  No particular reason – it’s just been beautiful outside and the yard needed some serious work.  Even cooked out on the grill last night.  Rock on little camper!

This is pretty neat.  Build Your Own Monorail [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Let us all carry weapons to defend ourselves and our fellow man (and woman).  Pilots get it.  Hell, their union gets it.  What about the rest of us?  Pilots: Let us have guns in the cockpit. Unions representing 114,000 pilots to ask Bush to intercede. Sports [USA Today : Front Page]

Nice knowing you, Abu.  A Master Terrorist Is Nabbed. It is hard to overstate the significance of the capture late last week in central Pakistan of Abu Zubaydah, a top Al Qaeda terrorist trainer and operative. [New York Times: Opinion]

Dave continues to impress me. Following the tradition of showing screen shots of work in progress, here’s a snap of the user interface of the new shortcuts stuff I’m doing for Radio. And a new tradition, you can follow the work on my outline. We move quickly and we do it openly. It’s a zig to the patent-based software industry’s zag. As we invent, the “lab notebook” is open. Other developers can see what we do and how we do it.   [Scripting News]

Not sure that I’d want to be called Viral, but Esther Dyson rocks.  I sent an email to Esther Dyson last night thanking her for her essay about blogging in conferences. She sent back an enthusiastic response about instant outlining. That’s good, I’m glad it’s on Esther’s radar. She’s viral. She’ll tell lots of people about it. That’s good. [Scripting News]

Great article.  The Hard Truth. What Osama bin Laden failed to achieve on Sept. 11 is now being unleashed by the Israeli-Palestinian war in the West Bank: a clash of civilizations. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]