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In spite of all we say, we're still taking over 
 I'm hearing Dr. Weinberger commenting on NPR right now. I tuned to NPR after hearing Kos wrapping as a guest on Majority Report, the Janeane Garofalo program on Air America.
 David gives a hard time to digital rights management, trusted computing and digital identity, among other things. One line I had time to write down...
 Trusted computing gives companies more control over your machine than you have.
 Well done.
 Here's a link to the commentary's text summary. I can't figure how to link to the audio.
 
Categorial winner 
 Thanks to a point made by a reader, somewhere (can't find it, or I'd point to it), I'm getting hooked on Vivisimo. I like the categorical clustering it does. Makes sense & finds lots of stuff. Actually works as a value-add for Google.
 
Naked Ness Monster 
 I didn't even know there was such a thing as Fleshbot, or getting fleshbotted, until I saw it happen to Ross Mayfield's public enquiry regarding stateside promotion of an Estonian sauna accessory.
 Gratuitous Fleshbotproof bonus linkage: Ross also caught me moonwalking at PC Forum. He says Dr. Weinberger (looking very tall here) was "teaching" me. T'wasn't so, since I'm not teachable on these matters. I did, however, moonwalk to the podium at Gnomedex a couple years back, but it seems there's no public record of it. Until now.
 
C'mon, that's 10,077 minutes short of a whole week 
 BusinessWeek's site doesn't take forever to load. According to OptimiztionWeek, it just seems that way:
 The BusinessWeek.com home page was 373,136 bytes in total page size, requiring 92 HTTP requests. Images accounted for the bulk of this page size or 54.6% with 76 images consuming 203,757 bytes. HTML contributed 98,643 bytes, while thirteen JavaScript files added 44,757 bytes. One CSS file used 8,374 bytes. A single Flash file accounted for 17,605 bytes. Overall, the Business Week home page loaded useful content in 18 seconds, and took 183 seconds - more than three minutes - to load completely on a 56Kbps modem.
 
Fodder for the commentariat 
 Dan's been getting some nice responses to a piece about Linux on the desk(and lap)top that points to my piece on the same subject at Linux Journal. Lot of helpful remarks there, too.
 Brother Steve also has a very interesting conversation with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, regarding the Microsoft-Sun deal that's made so much news. Note the news (which I believe it is) about the role of XML (by implication), RSS and identity, on page two.
 
 
Don't ask 
 I got Superglue under two of my fingernails this morning. It's not painful, but it makes typing feel very strange.
 
Roll on 
 Dana expresses appreciation for my (mostly) hoary (homonym unintended) blogroll.
 His post was occasioned by word that Blogstreet may discard blogrolls as a measure of popularity.
 Reminded me to visit Blogstreet more often to see who's hanging in my neighborhood. Lot of people not on my blogroll, it turns out.
 
Look up "doomed" 
 If you're short of ways to waste time, you can do a lot worse than playing with Eyebeam's GoogleRace2004.
 While you're at it, see who's been giving money to whom, by address and zip code.

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