When Barlow is with us, who can stand against us? That wacky guy behind the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is urging everyone to rally behind etoy.

Ars Technica comes through once again, this time with a preview of Mac OS X DP2 (the second developer preview of the next generation Mac OS). Most interesting to me was the discussion of application “packages” that are used to bundle the resources associated with a particular file together. Also interesting was the discussion on the use of XML to store meta-information on applications. Neat stuff.

RFC 2504 is a Users’ Security Handbook letting users know what they can do to help keep their systems and networks secure.

7-Up has reached a new height in self-parodying advertising with their Make 7-Up Yours TV ad. (The link leads to a page containing a big, fat Quicktime movie.)

My disdain for day trading isn’t unknown to the regular readers of this page. Robert X. Cringely’s most recent column offers hard data that confirms my preconcieved notions. According to the article, 11.5% of day traders make money, and 70% are likely to lose all of their money day trading.

My favorite computer hardware vendor, The Chip Merchant, is now selling stuff online through a Yahoo! Store.

Continuing the theme of great phrase turners from history, a reader sends a link to the online version of Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary. The Dover Thrift Edition of this book was the best dollar I ever spent.

The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page is one of my favorite resources on the Internet. The man turned out pithy quotations at an amazing rate. One of my favorites: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

The people at K-tel (who you might remember as the company that advertised compilation albums during syndicated sitcoms that you watched after school) are masters at manipulating their stock price. They managed to drive their stock price up about 25% just by announcing that they moved their Web site to servers running Red Hat Linux. Just the invocation of the magic L-word was good for big gains thanks to addle-brained investors.

In what I consider to be a bizarre round of deals, ISPs are teaming up with retailers to push each others products. The only interesting thing about it is the always amusing herd behavior that is the hallmark of this industry. Yahoo and Kmart, Microsoft and Best Buy, and AOL and Wal-Mart. Mindspring needs to hurry up and cut a deal with Service Merchandise or something before their stock gets downgraded.