This story is hilarious: Nascar fan gets pissed that a Red Sox game preempted his Nascar races, so he fires off half a million emails to the Boston FOX affiliate in order to make his displeasure clear.

Never underestimate the raw fury & power of a Nascar fan that has, apparently, been taught Perl somewhere along the line... :-)

I have a loosely organized directory tree of photos on my site. I'd like a nicer way to present these than simple Apache directory listings, but I'd rather reuse existing code (even if possibly modifying code, templates & stylesheets) than start from scratch. I've poked around a bit, but nothing I've seen seems to quite meet the rough criteria I have in mind. For people that have photo galleries on your sites, are there good solutions available from somewhere like CPAN or Sourceforge?

Darl McBride's "surprise" at RedHat's suit is almost like a scene out of Dr Strangelove...

[The President calls the RedHat Premier.]

I still think this is brilliant:

In the issues of December 16th 2000 to November 10th 2001, we may have given the impression that George Bush had been legally and duly elected president of the United States. We now understand that this may have been incorrect, and that the election result is still too close to call. The Economist apologises for any inconvenience.

-The Economist

And a good followup line:

Microsoft is a lot of negative things, but stupid isn't one of them. So, for the sake of argument, let's consider that IE as a freestanding product has been not discontinued, but mothballed. No one seems to be working on it, no new versions are forthcoming, there is no roadmap for future development.

What happens then if Mozilla really does start to gain market share?

Is it me, or is this man (mirrored here, but please be merciful of my limited bandwidth) demonstrating that the best place to use office is, well, your "other" office?

Pretending for a minute that there are no privacy downsides to RFID (obviously they exist, and they may be significant enough to scuttle public acceptance of the technology), why is all the RFID hype targeted at inventory control? That's a topic that I'd assume is only of interest if you happen to work in retail or manufacturing. How about an application that would appeal to actual consumers: point of sale systems?

I was going to post this in reply to somebody's comment, but it wasn't really relevant there. So, for my own reference (and for that of anyone that reads my journal (hello, Andrew!)...)...

David Boies has:

What's with this? The .dmg disc image file for the new iChat beta generates a .pkg installer for the new version, but when I open it the thing just flickers in the dock before going away without having done anything. If I tail the logs in Console.app, I see

2003-06-23 23:04:11.366 Installer[7012] Unable to load nib file: PagedInstaller.nib, exiting

I've just received a copy of the June 2003 edition of ;login:, Usenix & Sage's journal.

My writeup of the MIT Spam Conference is on page 65 :-)

Anna one --

OOO weee ooh I hack Perl like Buddy Hobbit...
Oh oh and you're Galadriel
I don't care what they say about this stupid ring
I don't care 'bout that

Anna two --

Okay, this keyboard navigation thing is driving me batty. In every other graphical web browser I've used, you could always depend on certain reliable responses from the keyboard: the up & down arrows scrolled the screen by a line or two, and the pageup & pagedown keys scrolled the page by a screen at a time. Reliable, predictable, unsurprising, good.

Some things are worth forwarding as widely as possible. This is one of them.

To: SCO

I am a Linux user. I feel that SCO's tactics toward an operating system of my choice are unjust, ill founded and bizarre. I am willing to be sued because I am confident that SCO's tactics toward Linux will fail. If I have published my email address as part of this petition it is so SCO representatives can email me and begin the process of serving me a court order.

Sincerely,

Okay, so now that every browser except the 800 pound gorilla officially supports tabs, when are we going to be able to access browser tabs from Javascript? I've got pages where I'm dying to replace every window.open(url) Javascript call with a call equivalent to window.newtab(url). As far as I can tell, Javascript can't do this because support for it hasn't found its way into the DOM. Maybe this is a good thing -- no acc

Andrew: Apple has an OS X Security mailing list, sign up at http://www.apple.com.phrak.com/signup/.