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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:00:00 GMT
Faisal's Notes is an "editthispage" site by Faisal Jawdat. The About This Site page on his static site contains a 4-element list. Element 3 is "If you don't like it, close the window." His Geek Humor page includes a Discussion of the importance of firearms in a computer science curriculum. He has an extensive collection of quotes. Smart, irreverant, funny. A new entry on my links page. Nice to meet you, Faisal. [script]

Where's My Latte? is Angus Glashier's weblog. I found it while looking for "java" at search.editthispage.com. "Legal Drugs" was the start of the title for today's edition. Got my attention.

I bought a digital camera tonite. Quick pointers to pics for now. More details (and more pictures) later, in sha' allah.

My Altar (289K), My stereo (45K), My home computer (44K).

Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML) [brent]

Rob Bos at Linux.com - More Stupid Linux Tricks: dd & wget, 2 Unix commands I didn't know about. Grabbing the whole Linux.com web site is as easy as wget -r http://www.linux.com. Far out. [lt]

Michael Massing at Salon - The elephant in the room: No questions in congress about Clinton's new $1.3 billion in mostly military aid to Colombia. And not a peep about the war on some drugs from the major party presidential candidates. [latte]

Reuters via San Jose Mercury News - US lets professor put encryption on Internet: "the U.S. Commerce Department confirmed that the new encryption export policy permitted [Daniel] Bernstein to post instructions, called source code, for his program on the Internet (http://cr.yp.to/crypto.html) for all to see." Right now, the index pages are there, but all the links return pages that say simply "access denied". Bernstein says about this, "These pages will eventually be open to the public. Right now they are inaccessible pending settlement of my court case." [wide]

Daniel Lyons at Forbes - Bitter Brew: concerning Sun's licensing fee for using the J2EE brand (Java 2 Enterprise Edition). [cafe]

Vin Suprynowicz at the Sierra Times - Police roadblocks out of control: Las Vegas metro police have suspended their "Papieren, bitte!" ("Papers, please!", my German, Vin used English) stops of motorists. The Supreme Court "announced it will take up an Indianapolis case turning on whether police can randomly stop motorists to search for illegal drugs." Vin and I agree that all such roadblocks unconstitutional: "unless police have probable cause to suspect us of some specific crime, we remain 'secure in our person, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures' -- even in our cars." [sierra]

Marijuana News - London Times Reports On UN Narks Complaints About Cannabis Sales On the Internet. International Push For Censoring The Net. Now they're comparing cannabis sales to Colombian drug barons and Afghan warlords. People, people. Marijuana has no lethal dose. It has useful medical applications. Prohibition doesn't work. Stop, already. [mjn]

Alan Bock at Antiwar.com Toward An American Foreign Policy II: "In short, our goal over the next several years or decades, should be to reduce tariffs and other barriers to international trade to as close to zero as is feasible, to reduce or eliminate restrictions on travel and immigration, to slash restrictions on the movement of capital, and in general to promote an environment in which barriers to personal, cultural, and economic intercourse with the rest of the world are reduced drastically. At the same time, we should reduce military spending, and resolve that a time will come – and sooner rather than later – when it will take an overwhelmingly powerful case to get us to use military force except to defend our own borders." I have enjoyed Alan's essays at World Net Daily and the Orange County Register. This one is no exception. [market]

Joe Farah at World Net Daily - Wish me a bon voyage: "This is my last column -- for awhile, anyway. I'm taking some time off. I'll be back writing on or around March 7, God willing... I'll be cruising to Mexico with Larry Klayman ... and Paula Jones ... and Dolly Kyle Browning ... and radio talk-show czarina Blanquita Cullum ... and a few others the Clinton administration has declared 'enemies.' That's right. All on one big ship. Together." Of course he couldn't help mentioning "the still mysterious and totally unexplained deaths of high officials such as Vincent Foster and Ron Brown." Bon Voyage, Joe. Have fun in the sun. Looking forward to your safe return. [wnd]

Wired - Prettying Up Linux: about Eazel, a company building Nautilus, yet another Linux desktop manager. There are stories all over the web about this. Somehow, I'm not excited. They do have a good team, though: Darin Adler, Melissa Braga, Mike Boich, Stan Christensen, Bart Decrem, Chris Dunphy, Ramiro Estrugo, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, George Lebl, Brita Murphy, David Park, Jong Shin, John Sullivan, Maciej Stachowiak, Bud Tribble, Rick Willmore. The ones who worked on the Macintosh: Mick Boich, Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Tribble, & Susan Kare, seem to be why everyone is excited. I may get more excited when I can download Nautilus and it compiles on my PowerPC. Until then, I wish them luck the same as I'd do for any new business venture. [wired].

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