Do you wonder why companies are always being awarded screwy patents on Internet technologies that you know have been done before? It’s because our patent system seems to be severely broken, at least according to these complaints which were taken from a patent examiners’ message board and sent to the Web Standards mailing list.
Attention geography geeks: the 1998 edition of the CIA World Fact Book has been published on the Web.
Are you interested in becoming a registrar for Internet domain names? ICANN has published the requirements for companies that want to become test registrars for the .net, .com, and .org TLDs. Perhaps you’d like to view the actual documents.
Here’s the response Amazon.com sent to customers who complained about their “pay for referral” program that was reported in the New York Times.
The comp.lang.tcl FAQ Launch Page is a useful starting point on the Web for TCL programmers. It seems to me that one big problem with TCL is that there are no good general TCL books available (that don’t also go deeply into TK), and that there are not any good “this is how you get started with TCL” pages, at least that I can find. If you know of any, send me an email message.
Forbes Digital Tool relays a warning from Microsoft to the other players in the database industry. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is going to take on the established players by using their immense cash reserves to undercut them on price.