The Phantom City

A selection of DPRK press releases, brought to us by NK News.

• June 15 Association of Persons of National Literature Formed
• KCNA Blasts Pro-U.S. Japanese Charlatans’ Shameless Anti-DPRK Moves
• Kim Jong Il’s Work Off Press in Finland
• U.S. and S. Korean Warmongers Flayed for Increasing Tension
• Samjiyon County Undergoes Facelift
• Sports Tournament of Artistes Held
• Title of ‘Prize of Honor for Twice Model Machine No. 26′ Instituted

Oh good, IBM apparently has patents covering Internet interactivity and e-commerce. I was getting tired of this whole Internet thing anyway.

Link courtesy of ongoing

When I was in college, I used Eudora for email and actually carried around a disk to store it all. I still have some of those disks, and going into the mail files with a text editor brings back memories.

Until I started using Gmail for most mail, I was using Mozilla Thunderbird at home, which felt like the logical free extension of Eudora. So, my surprise at this announcement came not from the fact that Qualcomm was giving Eudora to the Mozilla Foundation, but that Eudora still existed. It’ll be interesting to see what results.

Update: Looks like they’re calling it the Penelope project.

Steve Yegge writes about the Google Way. Interesting stuff.

At Google, projects launch because it’s the least-energy state for the system.

Link courtesy of Joel on Software

I guess I’m too sheltered. I didn’t even realize there was such a thing as a library cat, much less that they had their own map.

Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time.

My Dead Celebrity Soulmate? Mata Hari. Choices 2 and 3? Cleopatra and Annie Oakley.

Link courtesy of TV Squad