I almost never link to sports stuff, because even though it’s incredibly interesting to me, I doubt most of my regular readers share my fascination. However, this column on why streaks don’t exist is fantastic. If you’re a geek, you’ll love the fact that math triumphs over the intuition of almost every sports fan you know. Basically, the article explains what most of us know already: the fact that if you flip a coin and it comes up heads 10 times in a row, the next time you flip it, it will just as likely come up tails as heads.
It seems Symbian and Palm are ganging up on Windows CE.
O’Reilly and Associates is going to release The Cathedral and the Bazaar in a hardcover edition this fall. Will the words of Eric S. Raymond appear in red? (Yes, I know that he wrote the whole thing … it’s a joke.)
Declan McCullagh has written an article for Wired News that frames the debate within the IETF over whether hooks to facilitate wiretapping should be included in newer Internet protocols. This problem touches on nearly all of the issues confronting the IETF today. For better or for worse, the Internet has become too important to be designed and planned by a few geeks who were put in charge because they did all the work.
The Y2K bug has reared its ugly head in Maine. The state government has issued titles for “horseless carriages” to year 2000 model cars.