Scot Johnson (Mr. Feedster) has an interesting conspiracy theory regarding Microsoft and the Eolas patent decision.
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What Sun needs to do to survive
Always On Network: What Sun needs to do to survive.
Shuttle Story
NY Times: Dogged Engineer’s Effort to Assess Shuttle Damage. A sad story, and an outcome that is fairly inevitable once administrators start overruling engineers.
RSS Bandit
Dare Obasanjo on revamping the RSS Bandit news aggregator. I’ve been using RSS Bandit for a few months now, and find it pretty good. I like the fact that its free, and the source is available for me look at if I want.
I tried NewsGator a couple of months ago and, although I really liked it, I had to drop it because I don’t use Outlook at work. From what I’ve read recently, its even better now.
Russia, ID cards, e-mail ban
Guardian: “Bleak statistics show that Russia’s population could halve in size within 50 years” Scary. Maybe the Chinese will make them an offer for some of the spare land?
Spam, pirate
Text (pdf) of the new UK anti-spam law. Nice to have it, but completely futile.
BlogPulse
BlogPulse – Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs. The Key Phrases list is great, but why can’t I rss-subscribe to it?
Cool Japanese Stuff
JList.com – weird products and stuff from Japan. Very interesting.
pointers: RSS
Mark Pilgrim on RSS auto-discovery.
Speaking of which, the feed validator has moved to http://feedvalidator.org
Eclipse
Eclipse: “a kind of universal tool platform – an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular.” Interesting.