Category — General

One more reason to be your own ISP.

In the ultimate world of ends (which the end-to-end Net continues fundamentally to be), ISPs become nothing more than storage and pipes. Stupid things, as David Isenberg correctly says.

Because if they're not stupid, they get all smart like Verio and start shutting down whole sites and communities.

Thanks to Rhizome for the link. And to the Reverse Cowgirl for turning us on to Rhizome.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

now, is the time to rail aainst censorship to your favorite representative. dmca has gone on long enough, more to come

Eye scans unlock the future. Countries and companies are looking to using fingerprints, iris patterns and facial scans to increase security. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

i worry about the extent of people's faith in biometric technologies. i'll add more to this later.

If a RŽsumŽ Lies, Truth Can Loom Large. In this tight job market, employment experts say they worry that more people may be tempted to embellish their credentials. [New York Times: Business]

now, granted people do need jobs, but at what point do you need to lie to get one? what is the absolute goal in doing something like that? don't get me wrong, i've put skills on my resume when i was starting out that i had less tha a weeks time working with, but when called, i would admit that i did require a bit of time to get more familiar with them, though for a while now, i've stopped using that tactic, it became boring in the boom.

POMO Programming. Dethe has found a very funny … well, here's the relevant excerpt from the email he sent me: …there's a wonderful paper on Postmodern Programming. The authors presented this at OOPSLA last month, and it was one of the highlights of the conference for me. My favorite part is when they define the essence of the PoMo programming language: Languages get defined by the problems they solve. The first exercise for many programmers is to compute the first thousand prime numbers. Here's their solution: http://www.google.com/search?q=first%20thousand%20primes I thought you'd enjoy that, seeing as how it combines PoMo, Google, and a wickedly… [Joho the Blog]

i find this striking, moreso that other people find it so funny

Video games to be classified. Computer games to be regulated by film-style classification system. [Guardian Unlimited]

this as we know is not new in the u.s. and oz has been debating it too.. i wonder if there will be any standards making across countries… doubtful..

well this is a start