Is this a new meme?

Is this a new meme? First, Adam Engst becomes an action figure, and now Jeffrey Zeldman. Who's next?

Please help me spend money!

Please help me spend money! Should I buy the Handspring Visor or the Palm m100? I'm leaning towards the latter right now. Or should I buy something else altogether? Your opinions, please!

This interesting article from the

This interesting article from the NYT Magazine talks about the two current Personal Video Recorder (PVR) technologies (ReplayTV and TiVo), and how they will eventually change and destroy the current television mass market/advertising business.

Tim O'Reilly makes the point

Tim O'Reilly makes the point that Linux/UNIX Server Market Share Beats NT/Win2K. l the Linuxes have the same kernel, but different utilities; all the BSDs have different kernels but the same utilities. What is so sacred about the kernel? Solaris and AIX have different kernels too. As a user, I can move from UNIX to Linux without a whole lot of headaches.

So my question is, does OS X then also count as UNIX?

This article by William Saletan

This article by William Saletan in The New Republic neatly analyzes and captures Dubya's essential emptiness, despite his constant bleating that he has a "purpose":

Bush's convention address papered over a lifetime of indifference to serious work and thought... "An American president must call upon that character" exemplified by "paratroopers on D-Day" and "the civil rights movement," said the man who sat out the Vietnam War and the struggle for civil rights.

AdobeFacts.com: Adobe filed a lawsuit

AdobeFacts.com:
Adobe filed a lawsuit against Macromedia alleging infringement of our intellectual property, specifically our patented tabbed palette, which is a key user interface element and method invented by Adobe and incorporated into our products.

Which makes me wonder: is this how Adobe bought GoLive? "Give us your company, or we'll bankrupt you in court!" GoLive CyberStudio, btw, had the same exact tabbed palette (among numerous other products).

IMO, this is what companies do when they can't compete in the marketplace. Does Adobe think that Dreamweaver has to be killed before GoLive 5 (about to be released) can succeed?

From Slate's Today's Papers:A commentary

From Slate's Today's Papers:

A commentary on the WSJ op-ed page strikes an effective blow
against the conventional notion of the digital divide. Author
Daniel Akst recently upgraded computers and before saying goodbye
to his old PC, discovered that it--a machine with a 133 MHZ Pentium
chip and 32 MB of RAM that surfs the Web just fine--would only
fetch $150 in such aftermarkets as eBay. In other words, anybody
can cross the digital divide for less than $200. If you don't have
Web access at that price, it's not because you can't afford it,
it's because you don't understand the value of what you're missing.

Greg Knauss opens the Spam

Greg Knauss opens the Spam Hall of Fame. I gotta send him a few of the doozies that I've received.

There's a good line from

There's a good line from the new Democratic VP pick in Gore, Lieberman launch campaign in Tennessee:

"You know, there are some people who might actually call Al Gore's selection of me an act of chutzpah," said Lieberman, using the Yiddish word for audacity.
Then he showed some of his own in scoffing at the GOP attempt to liken his positions to those of George W. Bush on some campaign issues.
"With all due respect, I think that's like saying the veterinarian and the taxidermist are in the same business because either way you get your dog back," Lieberman said.

All of a sudden, I'm

All of a sudden, I'm feeling faint. Could someone please airlift me out of here?

In the most recent AlertBox,

In the most recent AlertBox, Jakob Nielsen reports that Doc Searls has re-discovered what Steve Champeon discovered over a year ago: link to any bookseller you want, but people only buy from Amazon.

From the DNC: I Know

From the DNC: I Know What You Did in Texas.