Weblog Nation is a daily digest of the best Weblog posts found by Jesse James Garrett. I like it (and not just because one of my updates from yesterday is featured).
Walnut Creek CD-ROM (the corporate sponsor of everyone’s favorite server operating system – FreeBSD) is merging with BSDI. The really good news is that the codebases for BSD/OS (the primary product of BSDI) and FreeBSD will be merging, creating the new FreeBSD. The commercial components of BSD/OS will be held back, and the new company will sell FreeBSD combined with those commercial components as the new BSD/OS. This is great news for BSD fans! Daemon News has the story.
The latest Ask Slashdot installment is about building high volume dynamic Web sites. Surprisingly, this question wasn’t asked by the people who run Slashdot themselves, given that Slashdot’s response time and uptime is pathetic. There are a few useful nuggest of wisdom buried beneath the crap in the comments, for those willing to investigate.
Jon Carroll has a f—ing great column today about the profanity, South Park, the Academy Awards, and censorship.