The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth: John Heilemann’s article on Microsoft from last month’s Wired is now online in its entirety. I’ve only read the first third of it or so, but it’s been immensely enjoyable so far. It’s a great story, and John Heilemann is a great reporter.

Amazon.com is once again at the center of a big controversy — this time they’ve managed to piss off authors and publishers by making it easy for people to sell used books through Amazon.com, and listing the used copies on the product page for the book. Needless to say, a sale of a used book has a good chance of costing the publisher and author some revenue. That chance grows significantly when the person was on the page to buy (or at least look at) the new version of the book. As an author, I can’t say that this bothers me all that much. I imagine it’s a bit more frustrating to publishers. Anyway, you can check out the story in the Washington Post.

Netscape 6 is out. Run for the hills.

News.com reports that companies are getting away from stupid, made up names and names ending in .com. It’s about freaking time. And the best news: goodbye, Inprise, hello again Borland.

I just wanted to say that I can’t wait for Black & White, the new game from Peter Molyneux. If it lives up to its hype (and games rarely do), it looks to be just about the coolest computer game ever. I’ve been keeping an eye on its progress for at least a year.

There’s a project to turn the loose documentation of CGI at NCSA into a real IETF-approved RFC. It doesn’t seem like much is going on there, though.

A brief rant on the current state of the Presidential election: anyone calling for Gore to concede is a fool or a charlatan. The bottom line is that all of the legitimate votes in Florida have not been received, much less counted. Until the official count of all the votes is out, we don’t know who really won this Presidential election, and calling for anyone to concede before then is just grandstanding. I’m also in favor of them counting the votes as many times as necessary to get an accurate count, across the state if they have to. I don’t think there should be any revoting, but making sure that the stated results are as accurate as possible seems prudent to me.

I’m a long time Internet Scout report subscriber, and I’m excited to see that the Internet Scout staff has launched a collaborative weblog containing interesting links that don’t make the report’s cut.

According to a message on a web design mailing list, Netscape 6 was released but then pulled back this weekend. I guess we’ll see it officially released for good very soon.

Jacob is a Java class browser and project manager for Emacs. I wonder how well it works with JDE?