E-Mail stamps a bad idea

On my way to work this morning I was thinking of an article that I read on CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/05/spam.charge.ap/] (and other news sources) regarding charging a low fee on a per email basis, which would make it overly expensive

The Blogosphere Wishlist Manifesto

I think this is an important article [http://www.cadence90.com/blogs/weblog_wishlist_manifesto.html] for people to read if they write in a blog of any sorts, or even if you are just thinking of writing in one. Below is a snippet of the articles [http://www.cadence90.

Killer pong

See what happens when pong gets a little violent [http://www.elfrigo.org/flash/pong.htm]. (Requires Flash)

Putting an end to the Syndication Wars

The Scripting News posted this shocker [http://archive.scripting.com/2004/03/09#rssIsRaging] today:> So from this strength, I've outlined a plan to merge RSS and Atom, much the same way we merged UserLand's format with Netscape's format in 1999. By making

MS denies Halloween X email

The Halloween X [http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html] email is an email that was sent from Mike Anderer of Microsoft to Chris Sontag and Bob Bench of SCO that outlines a huge backroom deal that in short supplies SCO with all the money they need to cause all

In the center ring we have a...

In the center ring we have a three-headed frog [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3534361.stm]! > "Frogs are primitive animals - so the occasional extra toe is not that unusual. But this is very unusual." -- Mike Dilger, from the BBC Natural History

TV Station hacked

[http://ddll.sdf1.net/images/00235017.jpg] As seen in these images [http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html], News 14 in Carolina got hacked. In the image above, you can see that the 'Closing & Delays' stroller was altered. The hack is a simple one, go to

Stuck in OrkutWorld

Sung to the tune of "Limbo Rock" is the "OrkutWorld Song [http://www.spatch.net/orkutworld.mp3]", its pretty funny even if your not an Orkut member. FYI: The song is in MP3 format.

Python XML-RPC

For our Legends of the Green Dragon game we wanted to ping Technorati the daily news. This helps us advertise the game, and gave me a chance to explore XML-RPC and python a little bit. And I do mean a little bit, look at the code> import xmlrpclib rpc

Got FOAF?

FOAF or Friend Of A Friend is an XML file format for your personal information, and allows linking to other peoples FOAF files. The below snippet from the FAQ [http://rdfweb.org/topic/FAQ] may help describe FOAF better than I can > ...provides a way to create machine-readable homepages