Warfare at the speed of light. After sinking 40 years and billions of dollars into beam weapons, defense scientists are on the cusp of what could be a military revolution ÉÉ warfare at the speed of light. [Gyre.org] —— danger danger danger danger danger

What is Internet infrastructure?. Stratton Sclavos of Verisign distills the essence of the SiteFinder controversy in his CNet interview: “The reason Site Finder became such a lightening rod is that it goes to the question: Are we going to be in a position to do innovation on this infrastructure, or are we going to be […]

Top Ten Activist Campuses. Mother Jones reports on the Top 10 Activist Campuses: Number one is the University of Tehran, followed by California community… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —— at least one virginia campus carries on the tradition of the fathers(and mothers) of our country.

Jon Maddog Hall. 22 Oct 2003: Newsforge interviews Jon Maddog Hall.”Either we should bring the laws regarding software into the twenty-first century so a reasonable software programmer can reasonably respect ownership rights (or defend them) without unreasonable time and legal costs, or only large companies will be able to create software in the future. It […]

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The Open video project is A shared digital video collection. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to “collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities”. The Project is sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the […]

happy blogiversary to me. One year. Four hundred and thirty-nine entries. One thousand, five hundred and forty-six comments. (Thanks for being the first, Joi!) Over fourteen thousand page views per month. An entire world of new friends and colleagues. A changed life…. [mamamusings] ——- congratulations on a 1 year old, my blogiversary is the 28th […]

Berlin Declaration on open access released. The long-awaited Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was released today by the Max-Planck Society, European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), and the participants in the conference on Open Access to the Data and Results of the Sciences and Humanities (Berlin, October 20-22, 2003). […]

discourse.net on The Practical Nomad. Michael Froomkin (Professor of Law at the University of Miami, moderator and contributor to ICANN Watch, and part of the Freetotravel.org team), has some especially kind words about my fledging efforts in his blog at discourse.net. Check it out, especially… [The Practical Nomad] ——- the practical nomad blog looks like […]

NeL: The Next Great MMORPG?. 20 Oct 2003: O'Reilly tells us aboutNeL.”Like EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, Ryzom will be a massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) with immersive 3D graphics. The developers have released Ryzom's engine code under the GNU General Public License. … NeL (for Nevrax Library) is a toolkit for the creating […]