dac papers available. All the DAC papers are now freely available online, says the conference blog. (Oh what a relief to be able to type in links fast with the slashes and angle brackets in the familiar places on my Norwegian keyboard.)… [jill/txt]

nifty, more free knowledge and commentary

Accidents Do Happen.

If you're not an Accidental Systems Librarian, perhaps you're an Accidental Webmaster. I'm sure one of your many hats is accidental…. [via beSpacific]

[The Shifted Librarian]

this is a handy looking book

Weapons Destroyed. Don Rumsfeld takes a new line and argues that the Iraqi government may have destroyed its WMD arsenal before the war began. Well, I suppose that's a possibility, but I don't see how he can rule out the much more… [Matthew Yglesias]

there would still be evidence of their destruction and of their production, you can't erase everything….

Closing up holes.

A couple weeks ago, I figured it was only a matter of time before iTunes disabled Internet sharing. That was quick.

[A Whole Lotta Nothing]

grrr, i wonder why they did this, it was a great feature…..

Consumer Report on Computers. The most reliable computer you can buy is… June's Consumer Reports surveyed 39,000 readers and…dare I say it? That not said, how reliable are reliability reports? [MetaFilter]

ok, apple wins, and I've had alot of experience with apples, and they are great computers with great service, and I've needed alot of repairs of late for some reason… grrr, one laptop is in the shop again, yes, the one that was in the shop the beginning of the month:(

Command-Line Email. 27 May 2003: O'Reilly tells us about the history ofemail.”Email's mode of transmission is based on 7-bit ASCII. In other words, early Internet communication was only 128 characters – specifically numbers and letters – that we use in English. Hence no Icelandic, Chinese, Hebrew or Greek, to name a few languages. Also, there were no pictures, or sound clips. The only messages sent were English text.” [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]

ahh yes, the good days of email when things were clean and simple without html or attachments….