24 April 2001

  • Record industry threatens Princeton professor with legal action if he presents a paper on how to circumvent music-protection systems.
  • The biggest gain becomes the biggest loss: TheGlobe.com gets de-listed from the NASDAQ.
  • Lucent finds revenue slipping $1B since this time last year. [wsj]
  • Protests planned for schools in NYC & SF over Internet censorship.
  • Design requires study, practice, and a knowledge of history, not osmosis.
  • IBM contributes 100+M towards Nanoelectronics center in New York.
  • IBM thinks the entire world will want to know Alyssa Milano twenty years from now: facial recognition glasses.
  • Linus Torvalds created Linux for the hell of it, or so says the autobiography.
  • Honestly, I have no idea what this site does, but it looks nice: LOLLEKundBOLLEK.
  • Kant lived the life of a monk--people set their watches by his afternoon walk--in order to beat his emotions.
  • Backyard Circus is weird, wonderful stuff.