I’m sure it was the drug’s fault. Jesus. Suicide Pilot’s Parents Sue Acne Drug Manufacturer. In yet another example of the prevalence of “blame culture” in our society nowadays, the family of the fifteen-year old boy who flew a small private plane into a Florida office buiding in early January of this year has filed a US$70 million wrongful death suit (Yahoo! News) against the manufacturer of the anti-acne drug Accutane. [kuro5hin.org]
Some of my detractors say I have attention deficit disorder, and I’m sure it looks that way to them, but actually sometimes I figure out which way we’re going before most other people do. Then, the only thing to do is to wait. An example of this is the SOAP and XML-RPC interface for Manila, which we came out with in 1999, three years ago. Today I read that Google and Microsoft are the only ones with real world apps that support Internet scripting. See what I mean. If you’re not there at the right time, it doesn’t matter. This doesn’t trouble me. We need Google to get everyone looking at this stuff. And in the intervening three years we had time to figure out more stuff and get it implemented too. 
[Scripting News]
Fucking spy bastards. Slashdot | General Public Realizes KaZaa is Spyware. [Privacy Digest]
Acela Express 2155 to NYC from Providence, Rhode Island. Crank on baby.
I’m 28. I think I’m way behind the crowd. It’s people like this. Earl Vickers: Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age. At my age (29), “American inventor Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first complete sentence by telephone.” In the words of Tom Lehrer, “It’s people like this that make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.” [diveintomark]
Ouch. Random: Police Dog Bites Off Robbery Suspect’s Penis. Chomp. [Morons Dot Org]
Fuck PetsWarehouse. Morons in the News: PetsWarehouse.com Doesn’t Like When You Say Mean Things About Them. I’m a little scared to say anything about this… Robert Novak of PetsWarehouse.com has decided that he doesn’t like it when people talk about the quality of his products, and as opposed to providing competitive service, he chose to sue them, and won! This sets a horrible precedent for freedom of speech online. [Morons Dot Org]
Mine has been doing this. I’d like it to be fixed. Soon.. The light goes out on iPAQ H3800s. But does it require a service event? [The Register]