Month: <span>May 2001</span>

Mom: “Too much input! How lucky I am to have so many connections and so much gratification. Overload surely beats inactivity and isolation.”
11:28:34 PM  

Frontier News: Radio’s Music Tool now works with Frontier.
8:19:40 PM  

CNET: Record albums spin past Napster filters. “Research firm Webnoize reports that it has found dozens of albums on the file-swapping service, the latest sign that Napster’s filters are
fruitless.”
1:49:34 PM  

CNET: Contractor: Colorful iBook on the way. “Apple plans to release a larger-screen version and multiple colors of its recently introduced iBook laptop in July, according to the Mac maker’s Taiwan contractor.”
12:27:33 PM  

MSNBC/APB: Trial gives insider view of bin Laden.
12:27:03 PM  

The Register: Lastminute.com resorts to porn.
12:26:38 PM  

Reuters: U.S.: China Attacks U.S. Over Dalai Lama Meeting.
12:26:24 PM  

Frontier News: It’s now safe to mix browser and Radio editing.
12:11:43 AM  

Reuters: Earthquake Injures 27 in Southwest China.
12:10:19 AM  

ESA Science News: Europe launches into astrobiology. “Is our planet an oasis of life in an otherwise dead universe? Twenty years ago, the scientific consensus was ‘yes, probably’. Now it has shifted to “probably not” and the field of astro- (or exo-) biology is burgeoning.”
4:26:59 PM  

BBC: Antarctic lake disappoints scientists. Researchers say there are no superhot springs to sustain life at the bottom of ice-covered Lake Vostok.
4:26:32 PM  

Soup is a SOAP implementation in C, written to be asynchronous and efficient. The release is intended to get the ball rolling on further development and user interest. [Hack the Planet]
1:48:49 PM  

Salon: The White House vandal scandal that wasn’t. How the incoming Bush team nudge-nudged a credulous press corps into swallowing a trashy Clinton story.
1:47:19 PM  

Wired: U.S.’s Defenseless Department. “Congress’ General Accounting Office says that the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center is about as effective as Bob Dole without Viagra.”
1:46:57 PM  

CNN: Robbery note found in laundry
1:45:54 PM  

Plastic: Two Theories On Why The US Was Voted Off The UN Human Rights Commission. “Who knew that the production of torture equipment is the only thing keeping the US economy afloat?”
6:33:12 PM  

Wired News: Rethinkng Music Security. “The major labels continue to work toward substantial digital distribution outlets by the fall, despite the near complete failure of the organization they hoped would help secure their content.”
3:49:24 PM  

BBC: Cheese beats crackers. “A ‘helpful’ virus called the cheese worm is making its way around the web checking computers for vulnerabilities and closing them.”
3:48:43 PM  

Jeff: “Congratulations to Evan Williams on being selected for The Industry Standard’s annual Net 21.”
3:46:51 PM  

Scientific American: Cosmologists Confirm Web-Like Structure of Early Universe.
3:44:04 PM  

CNN: Ex-stripper describes her time with accused spy.
3:37:37 PM