I wonder if Mimeo.com is making any money? They seem to have a pretty interesting business model. Their software installs a print driver on your system that transfers your document to them over the Internet, and they ship you (or anyone else), a bound and printed copy of the document via next day air.

I’ve been reading Damain Conway’s fantastic book Object Oriented Perl this week, and I’ve got some really cool new ideas for rewriting the software that powers this site. Once I finish plowing through the book, I’m going to work on designing and writing the new software. I’ve also been piddling around with Slashcode and Greymatter to see how they were built and what concepts I can apply to my code. Right now, I’m thinking I’d love to provide all the features of rc3.org in a system that doesn’t require a relational database (like Greymatter), but I’m not sure how to accomplish that yet. More to come …

Have you not found a religion when it comes to Web application development? If not, then what are you waiting for? Eric Zoltan compares PHP, Perl/CGI, and Java Servlets for IBM Developerworks. Now they just need to add in JSP, ASP, and Cold Fusion.

I guess I should keep an eye on Project JXTA, but when I read about P2P projects, my eyes glaze over. I do find the idea of having a “JXTA Shell” to be delightfully retro, though.

I love Brock Meeks. He’s an incredible journalist and has been doing a great job of covering the Internet longer than most journalists have had email addresses. His latest column on privacy statements is an absolute must read. When you think about it, it seems insane to pay for anything with something other than cash.

I want to buy the Chess New Orleans compilation, but I can’t find it on Amazon.com (despite the fact that they have a Chess store). The AllMusic Guide really ought to have “buy this record” links, don’t you think?

Hey, rc3.org was mentioned in this article about blogs. There’s a first time for everything.

The Supreme Court handed down two 5-4 rulings yesterday. I find this one somewhat offensive, and I find this one incredibly offensive. The second ruling bars regular citizens from suing state agencies for violating federal regulations. Only the federal agencies responsible for the regulations will be able to bring these suits, and let’s face it, that’s just not going to happen. The Supreme Court is already bad enough, and if Dubya is allowed to nominate the successor for Justice Stevens, it’s only going to get worse.

Salon Premium launched today.

According to Steve Lipner, a security guy at Microsoft, security through obscurity is OK after all. Lipner argues that nobody reviews open source code anyway, so source may as well be closed to prevent malicious people from finding security holes. Not only does this fly in the face of conventional wisdom (not that conventional wisdom is worth anything), but also against recorded history.