General

Color me upgraded.  Radio 8.05 is out with lots of great improvements! [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]

You go, Alan Cox.  Alan Cox Interview [Slashdot]

This has been going for almost twice the length of my lifetime.  Make it stop!  Energy Dept. Recommends Yucca Mountain for Nuclear Waste Burial. The choice is the culmination of an $8 billion, 40-year search, but the project still faces many hurdles. [The New York Times: National]

Then make your games cheaper.  Piracy costs game industry $1.9 billion [Geeknews]

Go, go, PayPal, Go! PayPal: IPO Omen or Anomaly?. Disproving the skeptics, online-payment firm PayPal pulls off an initial stock offering and actually does very, very well in first-day trading. Experts say it’s a tentative sign investors are warming up to Internet firms. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

I didn’t used to think so.  In fact, I used to use MAPS and other lists on my mailserver(s) – still do actually, even for clients.  I do, however, think that some of the new blacklists regarding optin/optout and other rules that they’re pushing are simply a bit too far.  It will be interesting to see how this evolves over the next year.  Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? [Slashdot]

Yet another liberal bastard.  News.Com: Wiping the Slate clean. Q&A with Michael Kinsley. But we and other Web publications of the last half of the ’90s had to start from square one in a way that I never imagined in print. We didn’t discuss in any magazine I ever worked for whether the page numbers should run forwards or backwards. [Tomalak’s Realm]