Slashdot interview with Andy Hertzfeld, currently of Eazel, and member of the original Macintosh team.

Does anyone else think that news sites that allow people to enter comments after news stories are just wasting drive space? I never read anything interesting in the comments after stories in MacWeek, or at ZDNet, or at Slate. I guess I have clicked on comments occasionally, hoping to be surprised, so in that sense these sites are doing their job, given that their job is to sell ad impressions.

Netscape has hired Robert Ginda, one of the developers on the Jabber project to work on instant messaging in Mozilla. Ginda’s work for Jabber centered around getting the various IM clients to talk to each other. Will this cause AOL to open up to communicating with other IM services? I doubt it.

Flash is a Web-hostile technology, regardless of what the nitwit Flash addicts in this article say. If you want to put spinning widgets on your home page, Flash is as good as anything. If you want to build a Web application, stick with HTML.

Stratfor covers the greater implications of the “I Love You” worm in today’s Global Intelligence Update. The conclusion: personal computers were not designed for a networked world. It’s true.

Danny O’Brien provides a brief but piercing analysis of Bill Gates’ Time magazine essay defending Microsoft in the May 12 edition of NTK.

I’m proud of Ford. Even though they make billions of dollars in profit every year by selling gaz guzzling vehicles like the Explorer, Expedition, and mammoth Excursion, they came right out and admitted that from a global perspective sport utility vehicles suck. Usually corporations are unwilling to admit the bad things that everybody already knows, but Ford came right out and said that these behemoths are an environmental disaster, and are a danger to other drivers. They also said that since people are still buying them, they’re going to keep selling them. Nobody’s perfect.

Behind the scenes at Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

There’s just nothing scarier than Congressional hearing. Lawmakers held a hearing to discuss the LoveLetter virus, and blamed the industry for not figuring out how to stop the virus before it started. The industry representatives aren’t any better; they blamed the problem on liberal judges who aren’t willing to treat computer crimes as seriously as violent crimes. Then one of the Congressmen talked about passing a bill that would prevent companies from hiring convicted “hackers.” Oh yeah, that’ll help. Idiots everywhere I look.

Andrew Leonard already has a story up about the storm brewing between Microsoft and Slashdot. I think Microsoft really stepped in it this time. I’m kind of conflicted on this one overall. Clearly it’s against the law to publish someone else’s copyrighted content on your Web site without their permission. Was Microsoft right in copyrighting their document derived from the open Kerberos standard? Is it worth it for Microsoft to beat up Slashdot for allowing it to be posted?