Ed Felten:
“Recently I met a promising young computer scientist, whose name I will
withhold for reasons that will soon be evident. He has developed a very
interesting network software system that would be useful for a great
many legitimate applications. The problem, he told me, is that if too
many people find out what he has done and realize [...]

What's Behind British Power? ColdFusion.
We're always noting ColdFusion dominance within U.S. government
agencies, and often neglect to mention ColdFusion's use by governments
in other countries. Here's one worth noting. The United Kingdom Parliament site is powered by ColdFusion. [Ben Forta's Blog]

What on Earth are we doing to our planet?.
HUMANS are damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and increasing
the risk of abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease,
deforestation or “dead zones” in the seas, an international report has
found. [The Scotsman]

REALBasic for free.
REAL Software is providing REALBasic 5.5 for Windows Standard Edition
completely free of charge in response to Microsoft's discontinuation of
Visual Basic 6.0 support. The offer is good until March 31, 2005. [microISV]

WordPress and permalinks and Mac OS X.
I’m playing around with a WordPress
installation on my laptop for a project, and had a hell of a time
getting permalinks to work properly. I figured that my experience might
be worth documenting for anyone else who’s playing around with Mac OS X.
I
should note that I had to start from the [...]

Historical Maps of Britain.
The British Library has launched a new collection of over 800 digitized
(or digitised, if you're British) historical maps of the British Isles
from Saxon times up until the reign of James I. Part of the “Unveiling
of Britain” project,… [LibrarianInBlack]

Shiny Clean Websites with Ajax. 
There is lots of development energy being spent on two relatively unknown pieces of web technology: Ajax and Ruby on Rails.
Ajax is the name given by Adaptive Path's founder Jesse James Garrett to the combination of technologies used so effectively in recent web projects, particularly Google Maps, Gmail and Flickr.  [...]

How open is OpenSearch?.

Last week at the
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
Jeff Bezos announced OpenSearch, an API that enables third parties to
inject their own live search results into Amazon's A9.com. I didn't
attend ETech this year, but that cloud had a silver lining: I was able
to dive right in and do an OpenSearch implementation.
As fate would have it, [...]

Biggest Complaint Of Blackberries So Far – Interface Lock Up. 
For most of the attorneys, the Blackberries are pretty good devices
for keeping caught up with emails. There are a few attorneys, however,
who really require a robust platform for emails as well as Personal
Information Management (PIM) and phone use.
The Blackberry is usable as a phone, but [...]

James Madison Online.
The Library of Congress's collection of James Madison's papers is now
available in an online archive with 72,000 digital images. [NYT > Books]