Blogs

Kitchen Sink Biology in KK’s Cool Tools. Link

Good VOIP notes in David Isenberg’s SMART Letter #91.

More holiday cheer - championship snow sculptures! (via (BoingBoing) Link

World’s most enteraining snow globe. My kids were laughing for a 1/2 hour. (thanks to David Weinberger) Link

An older post by Jim Waldo - a great reminder for anyone pursuing a standards strategy. Not that you shouldn’t, but you just have to understand what it means. Link

Great post on Tacitus on state’s rights, and the rising tide of states excercising power and taking policy issues into their own hands. I’ve been a huge supporter of this idea, though not for political reasons as most of the (dozens of) people who commented at Tacitus did. One reason is diversity, which was spelled out rather nicely by a number of commenters. This is both support for diversity of individuals, as well as the ability for states to react to their own, differing circumstances.

Great article on BoingBoing about the art of Mark Lombardi. The analogy to the web is very interesting. Link direction matters, though, and it’s interesting to look at the analogy in that light. Link

David Weinberger discusses whether it will only be hackers that can get around DRM systems. The other questions is whether only criminals will be able to get around DRM systems. Link

Haven’t heard from the always-thoughtful Jim Waldo in awhile, but his Worse is worse is vintage Jim. Definitely one of the people from Sun that I miss seeing on a regular basis.

Rational Explications: More evidence of Global Warming. Of course this is on Mars, but it’s still probably our fault.