Saturday, September 06, 2003

Microsoft settles Be suit for $23 million. Microsoft says it will pay more than $23 million to settle an antitrust suit filed by onetime operating system rival Be. [CNET News.com] 6:47:59 PM    comment []

Brian Dear has been blogging his experiences with Netflix. [Scripting News] 6:45:48 PM    comment []

It's Not What You Say, but How It Sounds. Kevin R. Daley has spent decades studying the impact of how a person looks and acts and sounds on his or her ability to get ahead. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Business] 6:44:31 PM    comment []

Wes, at Hack the Planet, notes: The second, "much improved" release of MIT's Haystack universal information client has been posted. I haven't tried this one, but I can attest that the first release needed much improvement. 7:36:21 AM    comment []

Microsoft to Asia: No Fair!. The software giant bemoans a plan by Japan, China and South Korea to develop an inexpensive, trustworthy open-source operating system, saying it may stifle competition. [Wired News] 7:30:49 AM    comment []

The new season of the philosophy television program, No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed will begin Tuesday, September 9, on the Universityhouse channel on the DISH 500 DBS network, which goes out to 9 million US homes. The season features philosophers, scientists, and others talking about topics including Quantum Mechanics, Freedom, Artificial Intelligence, The Nation State and Terrorism, and the Joy of Logic. The show airs at 9 PM Eastern / 8 Central / 7 Mountain / 6 Pacific. 7:27:41 AM    comment []

Unequal Professors. Unequal Professors. [New York Times: Opinion] Steven Cahn responds the the NYT story on NYU President wants senior faculty to teach undergrads -- and scores. 7:24:59 AM    comment []

Now at the Well's Inkwell conference, A conversation with Julie Powell! Julia Child. French Cooking. 524 recipes. 365 days. Secretarial job. Apartment kitchen in Long Island City. A weblog to document the process. It's none other than the phenomenal "The Julie/Julia Project!" Julie Powell joins us to discuss cooking all the recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and writing about it daily for public consumption. What did she learn, what did she master, at what cost? How much butter was involved? And now that it's done, what next? Come into the Inkwell and find out. And Julie herself is off today on a pilgrimage to Julia's kitchen, saying, if you see a girl wandering around the Smithsonian with a stick of butter, you'll know it's me! 7:18:29 AM    comment []

Ecstasy Study Botched, Retracted. A controversial study showing that ecstacy causes brain damage turns out to be based on faulty research. The primates in the study were given methamphetamine, not ecstacy. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 7:13:06 AM    comment []

Clay Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content. The answer is simple: creators are not publishers, and putting the power to publish directly into their hands does not make them publishers. It makes them artists with printing presses. This matters because creative people crave attention in a way publishers do not. [Tomalak's Realm] More insight from Clay. 7:09:30 AM    comment []