General

Kareen was shot on Oz!

I gotta wait a week to find out what happened?!  ARGH!

NY Times: “The evidence is now overwhelming that Linux, once a symbol of software’s counterculture, has become a mainstream technology.” [Scripting News]

Washington Post piece about Michael Osver, one of the thirty winners of Amazon’s contest to be one of the first owners of a Segway Human Transporter. Winners had to submit a 75-word essay describing why they should get a Segway months before they go on sale to the general public. Osver wrote:

My dream . . . Gliding effortlessly onto the sidewalk, crowded with commuters. Someone calls my name and I turn on a dime to see a neighbor who looks out of breath. He says he’s running late for work. I smile. Their way, the old way. My way, Segway.

Not surprisingly, he’s already getting heckled in the street.
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Lost pilot lands at home of Air Force One [CNN]

Amazing.. I’m Actually Managing To Do It. No, nothing like you’re probably thinking. Every time I’ve ever tried to read The Silmarillion, I’ve bailed out about five… [Derek’s Rantings and Musings]

Taxes, no matter the reason, are evil.  I don’t want a tax on this or anything else.

Aren’t we taxed enough already?

Lessig proposes a small tax on fifty-year-old copyrights. [Scripting News]

The First Amendment still has some wind in its sails – Freedom To Tinker reports that a Court Throws Out No-Reviews Clause in EULA. A court has thrown out a software contract clause prohibiting customers from publishing reviews of a product… [Ernie the Attorney]