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Wednesday, June 23 1999

I've taken two Star Wars Personality Tests now

In the first I ranked Yoda, the second Obi Wan Kenobi "No, not the brash, young Jedi currently on screen, but Alec Guiness' wise hermit of the Classic Trilogy." Indeed. I think I'll have to put that one on my resume. (I quoted Darth Vader on my application to art school.)

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Library Juice: ALA Is Like the Former Soviet Union

"A somewhat facetious manifesto" ( ALA is an acronym for American Library Association. )

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Sutton vs. United Airlines

[U.S.] Supreme Court Decision

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Ontario installs Internet filtering on government computers

"Critics call the move a form of heavy-handed cyber-censorship, but the government says it is simply buying into the best principles of corporate management. " What principles would those be, exactly?

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Mozilla M7 is out

The screen refresh sucks and it keeps crashing when I try to set preferences, but it's still pretty exciting. mmmmm...standards.

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Handhelds Beaming Up a Coke

"But one outspoken privacy critic said that advertising has just gone too far. Jason Catlett wondered if the machine requires intrusive caller ID and if TeleVend would keep a database of purchases and locations that could be used to track a consumer's movements. " Duh.

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Tuesday, June 22 1999 ←  → Thursday, June 24 1999