Daily Archives: Friday, December 10th, 2004

Zimran cracks me up with his comments on the Becker-Posner blog. Posner is also, single handedly, the most influential academic department on the planet. Meanwhile, his post on the United Nations, in like vein as Brutus’s speach about Caesar, is … Continue reading →

D is out with the crowd at a cookie party, so I’m hanging out with my naggregator and snacks. To be more precise, I have the Saranac 12 Beers of Christmas, a loaf of bread, a bag of chips, a … Continue reading →

Phil Windley points to the University of Washington‘s pubcookie project, an attempt at single sign-on for web applications. As it happens, they’ve come up with the same method, though the implementation details differ, that Prodigy has been using since well … Continue reading →

Reuters, the reliable source which reported Arafat dead a week early, reports that consolidation in the cellular space continues, as Sprint may buy Nextel.

Now that Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw have retired, are David Letterman and that Peter Jennings guy sufficient for the broadcast networks to retain their frequency grant? Are the news operations sufficiently serving the public interest, or should the Federal … Continue reading →

The Perl Advent Calendar contains lots of useful little modules pulled from the depths of CPAN. Yesterday, this was Proc::Daemon, a handy little utility class that can handle all the complicated operating system related tasks that are involved in making … Continue reading →