Tim Bray at his best: Open-Source Whatever
And anyone who thinks that this community would go away if Sun and IBM and Novell and so on were to stop funding it is nuts. Open Source Software is its own reward; that, and hanging out with people who share our passions. We don’ need no steenkin’ [...]

Uit een steekproef van Belgische websites, genomen door Lee & White Consultants, blijkt dat 96,71% niet in orde is met de Belgische wetgeving ter bescherming van de privacy (PDF, 161kB) en de recente wetgeving omtrent elektronische communicatie (PDF, 860kB). Het onderzoek selecteerde 220 Belgische bedrijven die een website hebben. 213 daarvan verwerken persoonlijke gegevens.
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I don’t like Lost. Rafe has the same problem:
I have been watching Lost obsessively since the series premiered, and one of my great worries has been that there will never be a satisfying conclusion. That’s what happened with the X-Files — the creators of the show didn’t know how long it would last, so they [...]

If you’re familiar with the whole goatse thing, this flickr set of people seeing goatse for the first time will be the most fun you’ll have all week. If you’re not: please don’t bother, because it will ruin your appetite for a couple [...]

Evangelical broadcaster warns Israeli prime ministers against making Sharon’s mistake of endorsing a division of Holy Land