Digital Apocrypha

Another great article from Joel Spolsky. This time its on Unicode and text encoding.

David Galbraith links to a video (quicktime) of Colim Powell admitting that Iraq had no WMDs before the war.

Always On Network: What Sun needs to do to survive.

Scot Johnson (Mr. Feedster) has an interesting conspiracy theory regarding Microsoft and the Eolas patent decision.

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.

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.

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?

Text (pdf) of the new UK anti-spam law. Nice to have it, but completely futile.

JList.com – weird products and stuff from Japan. Very interesting. 

BlogPulse – Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs. The Key Phrases list is great, but why can’t I rss-subscribe to it?