A smart and well-written article about Linux, aimed at non-technical readers

 

8-year-olds review rock classics – they like Nirvana, and like that Bob Dylan said “bums”

 

Europe still has cooler cars than North America

 

cartophilia: “what makes Oklahoma so desperate to touch New Mexico?”

 

The Zen of Palm: old but great documentation about what made (makes?) Palm a good and usable platform

 

Microsoft acknowledges a virus on their home page

The latest email virus that has been filling up our inboxes is brining all kinds of bad press down on Microsoft (and rightly so). However, I have seen one, however tiny and insignificant, gesture that Microsoft should be lauded for.

The Microsoft.com home page, as of this writing, features as the most prominent page element, a large item linking to information about the Mydoom virus (here’s a screenshot of the home page, as I’m sure it won’t stay up there for long). While this is, of course, the least Microsoft can do, it’s nice to see them putting the information that people are actually looking for right up front.

 

Acts of Volition Radio is on the agenda for tonight’s Berkman weblogger meeting at Harvard

 

The site silverorange designed for Sloan is featured at The Daily Standard

 

Best politician-hockey-animated-gif ever

 

If you have a weakness for Dave Barry, as I do, you’ll enjoy his coverage of the New Hampshire primaries