Maybe I’m just old, but I don’t find the descriptions of taking Ectasy in X’ed out at all compelling.
There are other levels of consciousness that are not dependent on ingested chemicals, but admittedly they are difficult to reach without time and effort. But time and effort are two things our society wishes to eliminate, [...]

Pac Bell’s Internet arm sues the RIAA over file-sharer IDs, saying the subpoenas against it are illegal. Other ISPs have simply turned over names in face of the RIAA, so this will be a carefully observed turn of events.

RedPaper was mentioned in a Wired article recently. It’s a site that allows you to post just about anything, from recipes, to poems, to the Kobe Bryant court papers for others to download. People then pay a small charge (called micropayments) to view them. If you’re a writer looking to get an idea of your [...]

If you’re an Apache mod_rewrite guru, please check out my post on forum.modrewrite.com (look for tommasz). I’m trying to not be any more of an Apache hacker than I need to be. Thanks.

The Houston Chronicle has a multi-part investigation on NASA post-Columbia, starting with In search of a mission - After Columbia, NASA rethinks reason for being. This is definitely not the right stuff.

Dell withdrew their Axim fix after discovering some users actually used it to upgrade older machines.

Your Mac Life interviewed the Woz Wednesday night.

Linux Journal has an interview with Brian Kernighan in which he talks about UNIX, C, Awk, and AMPL. I’ll admit I know more about Dennis Ritchie than I do about Brian.

The FCC has approved the Handspring Treo 600 for US use in both the GSM and CDMA versions. Now, if only my provider supported it.

If you’ve thought you couldn’t do desktop publishing on Linux, think again. While it sounds good, there’s always the issue of what your service bureau is willing to accept that really defines what DTP package you can use. Scribus seems to emphasize PDF creation, though, and that format is gaining momentum for pre-press, with many [...]

New from Ars Technica is Mac.Ars, new column dedicated to, you guessed it, the Mac.

When the going gets embarassing, classify.