Quick - how many brand names or logos are visible on the outside of your clothing? Your computer equipment? Have you ever noticed a Red Hat bumper sticker? Warren A. Layton sent us an interesting review of No Logo which will have you examining your surroundings for just such signs. Depending on your bent, you may also be reminded of the character Francisco d'Anconia in Atlas Shrugged when he declares "The coats-of-arms of our day are to be found on billboards and in the ads of popular magazines."

Physicists, gamers, Web designers and developers and engineers took up (with a vengeance) the question of whether or not the Net and the Web was an Infinite Space, forever expansible. Most felt that while Web Space was infinite, desirable property isn't. Also comments about crackers, cryptography, gaming, virtual property, the future of the Net and the Web, and concerns about whether real world property laws apply online. All in all, a great cyber gab-fest, pro and con.

Joseph Pranevich has written up an excellent piece on Linux 2.2 where he practically sums up the major features of the new kernel. This will be quite useful to any of you who are curious, but haven't been reading LinuxHQ every patch for the last year. Related, 2.2.0ac1 is now out.