I’m probably incredibly late to the party on this, but I played FreeCiv yesterday, and it’s really, really cool. FreeCiv is an open source clone of Civilization, the ultimate turn-based strategy game. If you’re not running Linux, you can play FreeCiv using the Linux desktop at Workspot.
Salon’s cover story today is about the increasing number of incredibly bloated magazines that cover the “new economy”. I have to confess that I don’t read any of them, but the last time I looked them over, I was amazed at how huge these things have become. Fast Company and Business 2.0 have gotten about as fat as Vogue or those JC Penny catalog-sized bridal magazines. And the sad thing is that these magazines are incredibly boring. Cast aside these magazines and pick up the New Yorker or the Economist. At least they’ll fit in your briefcase.
The Army is handing out medals to soldiers who worked on the Y2K bug. Maybe this is an idea that could find a home in private enterprise as well. I know I’d appreciate the “Distinguished Debugging Cross,” or the “Web Design Medal” were someone to award them to me.
Observation of the day: pundits who state unequivocally that the browser war is over fail to envision a time when the Windows no longer rules the desktop computing market.