Why Wired Blows

This article talks about a bunch of people using the Web to satisfy their obsessional behaviour and liking John Doe corpses to missing persons. Several times, they mention the site. Not once do they link to it. Idiots.

[/tech] # (posted at 16:02)

g1zmopr0n #1

Cool doorbells and stuff. I'm soooo ready to start nesting.

[/tech] # (posted at 09:55)

Java Cookies

May be a bit technical, but if you're interested in Java Cookies, this article is an excellent read.

[/tech] # (posted at 10:57)

Was that really me?

So, I finally got round to creating a GnuPG key pair. Bully for me. It's here, linked in the nav to the left, reproduced below, and I've registered it on KeyServer.net. Enjoy!

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[/tech] # (posted at 09:37)

Uni-what?

Excellent article about internationalisation (i18n) and Unicode. Essential reading for devs.

[/tech] # (posted at 15:44)

FreeMIT

MIT have some cool professors who really found a clue when they piloted OpenCourseWare - complete study materials for MIT courses, online, free. Why is this not a disastrous idea for them? Because they've noticed that the value that MIT adds for its (paying) students is not in the course materials themselves, but in the interaction the environment provides. Studying an MIT course for free online won't give you the same educational experience as attending MIT for a few years... but if you're geographically or economically constrained from attending an Ivy League US college, you were never going to be part of MIT's market, and these materials are mind-manna. It's so good to see people getting it and sharing knowledge like this. It's the sort of thing that made the Internet so exciting in concept, and has been disappointingly absent in the ViagraSpam, 401, AOL, pr0n wired world so far. There's a decent article in Wired. (via bOing bOing).

[/tech] # (posted at 08:43)

So sue me... where I'll win!

The Aussies are at it again... in sunny Queensland, where mod chips are legal, Aussiechip are offering the plans to their mod chip … but only if you agree to a click-through that requires you to cede jurisdiction over any arising legal suits to Queensland. So The Beast is offered a choice between arguing in the U.S. that click-throughs are worthless (since they're a WorkOfEvil, they really have unworth), in order to win the case, or suing in Queensland, where there's precedend to tell them to piss off. Hee hee.
(Via bOingbOing)

[/tech] # (posted at 09:51)