Wired News has a great interview with Rob Malda of Slashdot. I love the goofy conversation about money, and the way Rob tries to avoid talking about it.
InfoWorld is reporting that Windows 98 Service Pack 1 is available to people who don’t want to waste their money on the “Special Edition” of the bug fixes. Unfortunately, you can only download it using Windows Update. So much for downloading it at work and bringing it home. What’s wrong with a regular file distribution site?
Want to help make Mozilla a better browser, and earn some free stuff to boot? Check out the Gecko BugAThon 300. Basically, the Mozilla guys have 300 bugs for which good test cases haven’t been developed. Developers of test cases win prizes!
From Rogers Cadenhead comes this link to a small Microsoft snafu. In the Microsoft Clip Gallery, searching on the terms “monkey bars” returns, among other things, a picture of some playground equipment. Unfortunately for Microsoft, there happens to be a black couple sitting on that playground equipment. It’s an honest mistake, but Microsoft’s attempts to explain the problem in a sensitive manner are good for a chortle.
Unsurprisingly, protest pages against Yahoo/Geocities are already springing up. I know you won’t believe this, but the page is a call for a boycott.
Elizabeth Weise has written a solid article about building online communities for USA Today.