Make and run your own country…. NationStates.net allows you to create your own country, decide how it starts out by answering a short questionary, and then it gives you issues to solve (one per day, though you can set it to two per day). How you answer those issues determines how your country fares, the […]

NY Times: “Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America. So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's — by figures like Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Ella Fitzgerald — are entering the public […]

My 2003 Economy. My 2003 EconomyI've decided the economy belongs to me. That is, all the little things I do – the things I buy, the ideas I have about the economy, the way I think about work, the things I say about the economy — and especially how I can help other friends find […]

Macro and script viruses dying off. New faces of malicious code for 2003 [The Register] yeah, until the next surge occurs…

Design. Design I'm not going to give you all the lnks to this poem's many critics and analysts, check them out on Google. I just like it as a rather mysterious text. Design by Robert Frost I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,On a white heal-all, holding up a mothLike a white piece of […]

Job Angel — Do it. Job Angel — Do it Pick five people you know — could be family, friends, anyone. You don't even have to tell them you picked them. Commit to helping these five people find jobs if they aren't working or finding new jobs if they're ready to make a move, or […]

How To Become An Alpha Male In 18 Easy Lessons. How To Become An Alpha Male In 18 Easy Lessons My new book, How To Become An Alpha Male In 18 Easy Lessons, is almost out! I'm just trying to get one more back cover blurb to assure bestseller status. I know just the guy […]

More Evidence of the Power of Video Games. I officially have guinea pigs. Our friends down the block asked me to come over and help with their computer last week. They were trying to install Sims expansion packs on their 266-Mhz machine and they didn't have enough hard drive space for even one of them. […]

Student Charged in DirecTV Theft. A University of Chicago student was charged with stealing secrets from DirectTV. The student is accused of taking documents, which described the technology to control access to DirecTV, and releasing them. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: Technology] i can say ethics across the curriculum, can you?

Memories caught on the brink of extinction. Online: An internet archive is rekindling family life in the shtetl, the eastern European Jewish villages razed in the Holocaust. [Guardian Unlimited] as an advocate of using information technology to preserve culture, i think this is great