Dan Gillmor has written a column about the recent spate of vintage software being made available for download recently.

Yesterday’s DaveNet says what I’ve been trying to tell people all along about the instant messaging debate, which is that Microsoft isn’t any more open than AOL, and that they’re working for their own benefit, not yours. The fact that Eric S Raymond doesn’t get this is amazing.

Yesterday, John Carroll’s column took on day trading as a social ill. As a bonus, the article ends with a clever slam of managed health company Providian.

This Slate article offers hope for people who hate milk. (I love milk.)

User Friendly had an informative cartoon the other day that sheds light on the great Linux vs. BSD debate.

Declan McCullagh follows up on the story of the court that discovered the word counting in footnotes bug in Microsoft Word. Perhaps lawyers should just stick with WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 after all.

Linus Torvalds is currently ranked #15 in Time’s “Man of the Century” poll, right behind Madonna. I wonder where Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf stands in the voting.

Sega’s new video game console (Dreamcast) is going to come with internet connectivity provided by AT&T. I wonder if it’ll be more successful than WebTV?

Dave Winer is taking a walk down memory lane at outliners.com. I love software nostalgia (really).

http://10-10phonerates.com is a useful tool for getting past all of the crap you see on the inane commercials for long distance service.