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Happy Canada Day!

July 1, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Happy Canada Day!

Tags: Canada

Cringely on Palladium

June 28, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Cringely on Palladium

, Microsoft’s newly announced “secure” OS. He pretty much nails it in my opinion. Most disturbing is the unspoken question: has Microsoft purposely kept thier current offerings vulnerable to drive demand for such a system? If you’re not up to date on Palladium, here’s a quote from the article: “…the real purpose of this stuff, I fear, is to take technology owned by nobody (TCP/IP) and replace it with technology owned by Redmond. That’s taking the Internet and turning it into MSN.”

Tags: Internet, Microsoft, Technology

Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing

June 27, 2002 by Michael Boyle

Cory Doctorow in Boing Boing

: “The most harmful lie you can tell about the Web is that permission is a prerequisite for linking. There is no copyright interest in controlling how people reference your work.”

Tags: Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, Web

More madness on deep linking

June 26, 2002 by Michael Boyle

More madness on deep linking

: it seems that a Danish court will rule on a local case about deep linking in a week or so.

I had no idea

June 26, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I had no idea

that Kinder Eggs were contraband in the US! It’s kind of funny that such inoffensive little toys are illegal. I wonder, does that make my Kinder egg habit cool and “alternative”? Heh. [via boingboing]

Tags: Funny

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