Cam is sold on epinions.com.

Unsurprisigly, the Linux community is responding to the anti-Linux FUD being disseminated by Microsoft. Nicholas Petreley says the whole incident is cause for celebration.

takeitoffline.com is a service that allows you to create one-shot discussion forums for off-topic discussions on mailing lists and in newsgroups. Now you can not only tell people to take it offline, but you can give them a way to do it. (Thanks to Tara Calishain for this link.)

There’s a trojan horse being distributed via email that sends the user’s AOL password to a malicious person when they run the program. It gets the AOL password off of the user’s hard disk. AOL isn’t taking responsiblity, of course, but I’m forced to wonder why AOL passwords are stored unencrypted. Maybe they are encrypted and the story fails to make that clear. At least the trojan horse lets you know that it just stole your password, so you can change it.

Microsoft is finally putting all the pieces together in their plans to start raking in transactional fees from as much electronic commerce as possible. If I have time, I’ll write something about this later.

The New York Times has a article about Avie Tevanian, the head software guy at Apple. In the “Did You Know” category of information, Avie Tevanian turned down a job with Microsoft after leaving graduate school to become one of the founders of Next.

I’m going to step on Laurel Krahn’s toes here, and point to the teevee.org review of Freaks and Geeks, a fine television show that airs on Saturdays.

Developers are complaining about the new pricing scheme for Filemaker Pro. They’re blissfully ignorant — in the relational database industry, the licensing schemes are much more draconian than Filemaker’s.

Time’s Digital Daily has a moronic article about “Netscape Communicator 5,” in which they totally miss the point that Mozilla is Netscape Communicator. They also make the mistake of assuming it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on with the project, when all they have to do is go to http://www.mozilla.org. Aren’t these people supposed to be journalists?

Somehow I missed the whole “Slashdot readers edit Jane’s Intelligence review story” thing. Fortunately, Salon has a rundown. I for one think it’s a good idea … journalists far too often get stories completely wrong for lack of research and solid fact checking. Letting a few thousand experts fact-check a story before it’s printed can only improve the accuracy.