One of my favorite fake April Fool’s news stories.

Ken Layne weighs in on the Kosovo conflict not for Tabloid.net, but for Mother Jones! Read the piece anyway.

C-Net’s Dan Goodin won a case in which Microsoft wanted him to reveal his sources after he broke a story containing material from sealed internal memos in the Java case.

Mozilla at One: A Look Back and Ahead: Frank Hecker’s state of the project address for Mozilla.

The IETF has formed a working group to create an open protocol for instant messaging. Interestingly, none of the people listed as being involved with the working group represent any of the major players in the current instant messaging arena. So much the better.

Why do so many people who don’t actually write code want to tell the programmers creating free software how they think things should work? Need an example? Check out The Power of Openness, which not only critiques the free software movement, but even refers to it by yet another name (open code). Will these people ever leave the hackers alone, at least for a little bit?

ZDNet has a pretty detailed story covering the arrest of David Smith, the alleged originator of the Melissa virus. The guy could spend up to 10 years in jail if he’s convicted.

Microsoft must be thinking that with friends like Washington senator Slade Gorton, who needs enemies?

The FBI has arrested someone who is alleged to be the creator of the Melissa virus.

I read a strange reader review on Amazon.com today for Ben Forta’s book, Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development. Apparently the reader was a research scientist, and thought that the book discussed applications for cold fusion (the energy source). When this person got the book, they read it anyway, became interested, and left the PhD program to become a Web application developer. See the five star review by the reader from Arizona, entitled “I thought it was about energy and ended up doing web apps.”