RIP. 
LA Times: “Chuck Jones, the animator who helped give life to that wascally wabbit, the portly pig, the lisping duck and the tormented coyote, died Friday in his Corona del Mar home. He was 89.” 
[Scripting News]
Typical. Should we really be suprised by this? PayPal Faces Post-IPO Pitfalls. The online payment firm did just great in its stock market debut last week. But since then PayPal shares have dropped precipitously. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]
Fascinating. Franz Kafka. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
It might be early to tell yet. But I believe that the subscription model will work. I think people will pay to end ads on certain sites, particularly community oriented sites like Slashdot and Kuro5hin. End of the Free Internet [Slashdot]
Good reading. Plastic is pointing to a Village Voice piece about the Top Ten Questions the Media Can’t Answer. Its a real eye opener to read this then flip on CNN or FOX News and listen to the verbal diarrhea. Fun for the whole family. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]
Seriously cool. The Guardian: Webarian. Q&A with Brewster Kahle. A Terabyte for one of the Wayback Machine’s computers costs about $4,000 - the Moore’s law surprises me every time. The machine itself is made up of ordinary HP desktops stacked on top of each other. We take out the disk it comes with and put in a 160 Gb large disk. [Tomalak's Realm]