Fray Cafe 3 at SXSW [bOing bOing] I won Declan and SXSW's free interactive festival pass (free is good when you are a low paid academic), so I'm going to be in Austin for this and hope I'll see others there.

William Gibson's blog is becoming, day by day, an astonishingly rich trove of insight and ideas. Check out this essay titled “IN THE VISEGRIPS OF DR. SATAN (WITH VANNEVAR BUSH),” then read on to find out what Gibson thought about “The Matrix” when he finally watched it. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] whether he wants […]

2nd Shuttle gone. CNN: “The space shuttle Columbia, carrying a crew of seven, broke up Saturday morning 200,000 feet above Texas.” [Scripting News] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] An image is worth a 200,000 words. [Marc's Voice] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] a tragedy…. sometimes complex systems fail…

Timothy Appnel: The Next Generation of TrackBack. [Scripting News] nifty, i'm still thinking about how to implement this myself.

Accidental web-archeology. While searching for something completely different, I found this message from August 1993. What if Marc Andreessen had written ““”OK, we'll add an error indicator”''”. [Sjoerd Visscher's weblog] ahh history, isn't it fun…

I Needed a Good Laugh this Morning!. Windows RG (Really Good edition) – make sure you click on everything! (Requires Flash.) [The Shifted Librarian] he he he, this is good

Apache and OS X. Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X, Part 1 is the first in a three-part six-part series over at O'Reilly that will help you get started serving Web pages. Part 2 helps you configure CGI access, Part 3 takes a look at PHP, Part 4 is reader-asked questions, Part 5 is Apache […]

Run Linux over the Web — without having to install it on your own machine. What a neat idea — WorkSpot, a Linux machine (RedHat flavour) you can run through a browser, from anywhere. Cost: $9.95 a month. [Living Without Microsoft] this is less than i pay now, but it is redhat…

Women offered taste of tech. A course to provide women with a basic understanding of computers is the latest scheme to try to lure more women to tech jobs. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] this is good news, but does it address the real problem, or what might be the real problem…

College Loans Rise, Swamping Dreams. As college tuition has climbed, so has the number of students who borrow to help pay for it. By Greg Winter. [New York Times: Education] I'm still climbing out of this hole, but mine is not anywhere near as bad as many people pursuing ph.d's