Sunday, March 14, 2004

InfoWorld: Making e-mail identity work. Jon Udell. The truth is we've had plenty of innovation through the years. What we've lacked is follow-through. Consider S/MIME digital signatures. It's very likely that your e-mail client supports them. But it's overwhelmingly unlikely that you've ever digitally signed an e-mail message. CNN: From June 16, 2000; Should you encode your e-mail? [Tomalak's Realm] 10:05:38 PM    comment []

An Effort to Make Arabic Easier. Learning Arabic as a second language can be daunting. That is why an inventor decided to patent a simplified Arabic alphabet. By Sabra Chartrand. [New York Times: Business] 9:57:19 PM    comment []

$ELECTION $UNDAY. This week's Mass Media features a well researched look at the cash-cow known as the men's NCAA basketball tournament, written by fellow UMass Boston senior Tony Naro. Tony's analysis of the organizational structure of the NCAA makes it pretty evident... [Begging To Differ] 2:00:25 PM    comment []

World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon. An anonymous reader writes "An Australian Court will soon determine whether US Law should reign supreme in copyright infringement cases that occur online. ... [Slashdot] [Ted Ritzer: Free Music] 10:24:44 AM    comment []

Privacy in the age of transparency. Strategy + Business explains the delicate balancing act companies face in keeping the data they've collected about customers confidential. [CNET News.com] 9:11:08 AM    comment []

Spring Break for Supreme Court Justices (BuffaloWings&Vodka): Where the Supremes Are Going for Spring Break Breyer: Cozumel Souter: Aspen Ginsburg: Hedonism II Jamaica Scalia: National Review Theme Cruise w/ W.F. Buckley and Louis Rukeyser. O'Connor: Hosting week-long bash at her pad. Hopes to beat last year's keg stand record. Thomas: National Review Theme Cruise w/ W.F. Buckley and Louis Rukeyser. Stevens: South Padre w/ Green Valley cheerleading squad and a tank of NO2. Rehnquist: "Possibly Vegas, but I also hear that Palm Beach is pretty slammin', so I dunno." Kennedy: Just going to hang around the Court, possibly get some laundry done. (thanks, BLeiter!) 9:03:57 AM    comment []

Origin of Species. There are two basic responses to globalization: Infosys and Al Qaeda. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion] 8:55:35 AM    comment []

Trump Is Firing as Fast as He Can. The joy attending both Martha Stewart's demise and Donald Trump's weekly dismissals shows that America's revulsion against business remains red-hot. By Frank Rich. [New York Times: Opinion] Rich has a good take on this, though I don't entirely agree this time. Our household doesn't take joy in the apprentices' failure, e.g., although seeing some of them get canned is satisfying. For those, there may be things in common with the pleasure people take at Stewart's comeuppance. There's also the lying thing in the latter, though, and not so much on the reality shows. 8:53:53 AM    comment []

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