Good reading. Plastic is pointing to a Village Voice piece about the Top Ten Questions the Media Can’t Answer. Its a real eye opener to read this then flip on CNN or FOX News and listen to the verbal diarrhea. Fun for the whole family. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
Seriously cool. The Guardian: Webarian. Q&A with Brewster Kahle. A Terabyte for one of the Wayback Machine’s computers costs about $4,000 – the Moore’s law surprises me every time. The machine itself is made up of ordinary HP desktops stacked on top of each other. We take out the disk it comes with and put in a 160 Gb large disk. [Tomalak’s Realm]
I loved my Omnisky service when I had it. Unfortunately, no matter how I pondered the question, or how long I sat and pondered, I could not come up with a business use for it. Earthlink officially takes over Omnisky service [PDABuzz.com]
Get out of my country. Accused Nazi’s Citizenship Revoked for a Second Time. A federal judge today revoked the U.S. citizenship of John Demanjuk, who prosecutors said was a death camp guard. [The New York Times: National]
I think we all probably saw this one coming. I’ve had a minor issue with PayPal, not anywhere near as serious as some individuals I’ve read about. Their customer service definately sucks, but their service is k-rad cool. MSNBC: “Less than a week after its blockbuster debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, online payment firm PayPal has been hit with a class-action suit charging it with improperly administering users accounts and poor customer service.” 
[Scripting News]
Oh, bullshit. The “War on Terror” is Still Nonsensical. For the past months the media has been using the term “war on terror” as though it were a neutral description of U.S. military action in Afghanistan or of U.S. threats of future attacks elsewhere. On its face, the “war on terror” — or even “war on terrorism” — is at best a misnomer. How, exactly, does one declare war on a concept, on a tactic, and how would such a war be won? Even if we assume that what Washington really means when it says “war on terror” is “war on terrorists”, the term is deeply problematic. [kuro5hin.org]
I have plenty of Linux CD-ROMs for this machine. No licenses or other crap. I still like what Wal-Mart did! Walmart’s PC without an OS. I think the analysts are missing the point. I have lots of spare Windows 98 and Me disks that I could use to run this machine. I also have lots of nice monitors that are still usable. This is a discount PC for people that have PC parts (Windows and Monitors) lying around the house unused. This is a relatively fast PC for a kid’s room. My problem with most new systems is that I can’t unbundle the package and drop the monitor or the O/S to cut the cost of the system. Due to bundling agreements with Microsoft, PC companies pay a Microsoft tax for every PC that ships. Walmart clearly thought that this was a low cost niche they could fill as long as they didn’t cut a deal with Microsoft. Nice. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]