Some Sunday morning reading and viewing to share.
The Marines must be getting desperate in the recruiting game. Seems they sent a letter to 78 year-old Sonia Goldstein. While they were interested in her language skills, they did warn that life as a Marine could be strenuous physically.
I’m always ranting about about CRAPWARE and DRM craziness. Seems that ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind feels similarly about DRM and has come up with a new acronym called simply CRAP for Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection. Check out the video here.
How easy it is to forget. Lots of angst over immigration this weekend with demonstrations catching the news. Sumocat has an interesting, but oft-forgotten take on the issue. Looks like the melting pot might be just about ready to boil over.
The hoohah that surrounded the news of Microsoft delaying Vista is starting to settle down a bit. In all that was written, I find this article by David Bau, Vista and the Altair, very intriguing. If you apply his argument to any industrial, societal, political, or any organizational principle for that matter, it paints a really shallow picture of man-kind’s shifting ambitions, now doesn’t it?
Folks wonder why we don’t trust politicians. Apparently we can sign laws into existence even if we don’t plan on following them these days. Via The J-Walk Blog.
And today’s Quote Note is from George Bernard Shaw, via Dave Winer: "If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise they'll kill you."
