Commodity Software. Dave Stultz's resignation letter, Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software, is superb [Mark Bernstein]

this is interesting

Jon Udell: The Human Face of Microsoft. [Scripting News]

there are good folk about in interesting places, but they always leave.

Lund University is building a Directory of Open Ac …. Lund University is building a Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) with funding from the Open Society Institute and SPARC. The first phase of the project will provide “journal level” data and searching, the second phase “article level” data and searching. The directory itself is not yet online, but the DOAJ site contains useful background information and a form for suggesting journals to include. For more information see the press release. (PS: This is a major step, well-funded, and badly needed. Make sure that the DOAJ knows about the OA journals in your field.) [FOS News]

This too looks like it could be something very interesting for the future.

Writing More Efficient PHP. 13 Feb 2003: This tutorial, from IBM developerWorks, targets the PHP developer who already understands PHP, but either wants to write more efficient PHP code or wants to improve the performance of existing PHP applications. (Free registration required – Noel) [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

this looks like it might be handy.

My Father, the Cyborg. The Soul of a New Machine is the title of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the recent proliferation of cyborgs in the humanities. Growing outside of science, and inspired by science fiction, cyborgs have invaded economics, anthropology, and even philosophy. Cyborgs are indeed taking over the academic world. NASA is interested, too. In fact, NASA's Cyborg Program was based on the research of Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline. More inside… [MetaFilter]

yes, from the cyborg manifesto until tomorrow, the cyborg will be here