any effort to remove as much responsibility for domain registrations from Verisign as possible, so the “.org is a public trust” is very interesting to me. What I can’t figure out though, as an ORG owner, is how it might affect me personally. Will I be able to keep my domain under this proposal? Or is it the sunshine and popsicles it seems to be according to the sites I’ve seen who support this plan.
Archives for July 2002
Check it out
: TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00. The best such application I’ve seen – smooth and fast, and works very well. Reminds me a bit of the old Apple Hotsauce stuff which gave a fly-through webspace in an alternate interface.
The EFF has announced
that 2600 Magazine will not seek Supreme Court review of the DeCSS decision. It seems that they are still working on the issue, just not using this case as the framework in which it happens.
Michael Sippey in theobvious.com
makes the important point in his short article on Spielberg’s Minority Report: Why Spielberg’s Vision is Flawed. It was a fun movie, but the future it portrayed was deeply flawed. I’m no sci-fi genius, but a story like that begins from the proposition that the future portrayed is a probable (or possible) extension of today. This is pretty clearly not the case, even for the many efforts to do so throughout the film. Sippey puts it well: “…Minority Report is not a networked future. Spielberg’s vision of the future is, essentially, television writ large, with a frosty layer of ‘Hello,
It is with great pleasure
that I announce that we will shortly become the guardians of a very lovely puppy who will grow in due time into an adult female dog. This fact will doubtless prompt me to offer my own banal anecdotes from time to time.
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