Top: Old news: July 1999 Lunar Impact - The Lunar Prospector has crashed into the Moon as planned, to see if there's water up there. Details should appear soon. The Hitchhiker's Guide movie - Here's a nice interview with Douglas Adams about the movie of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy coming in 2000. (Looka!) Monty Python Speaks - CNN has put the first chapter of the new Monty Python book, "Monty Python Speaks", online. A must-read if you're a Python fan! (Slashdot) Penguin Mints - Soon i'll finally get a (very nicely designed) tin of those Penguin peppermints thanks to Copyleft and my credit card. Sample guide - Marsel has started a sample guide for (Detroit) techno records. It is not as big as the Encyclopaedia Breakannica yet of course, but there are already some surprising entries to be found. Amiga Pics - Amiga.org has some pictures of the new Amiga. Looks pretty good, but the site is quite slow right now, probably due to the Slashdot Effect. (Slashdot) New weblog - Bruce Perens of Debian fame has started a weblog called Technocrat using the open source software package Squishdot. (The Stuffed Dog) Javascript kiddie - This guy knows his Javascripts and uses it in ways i've never seen before. Very original and definately worth a visit. (Sikkema) MP3.com also launched IPO - You may have already heard it, but as expected MP3.com went public wednesday and the shares did very well. This also gives me a chance to plug our page on MP3.com here. Springer may run for Senate - If you thought an actor as president was a bad idea, then this bit in Salon will make you weep. Be IPO - Be's Initial Public Offering was launched today. 6 million common shares at a price of $6 = $36 million. Perhaps they can now afford to write drivers for my video card. How to Toilet-Train Your Cat - I wonder if i can learn Koffie to do this. Probably not. Ice Cream - It was very warm and humid here today, so this site, and this one as well, is like food porn to me right now. Very hot... bo2k pranks - Back Orifice 2000 can offer a lot of fun as this unsuspecting web cam owner came to discover. Yaris - Later this week i'm getting a new car from work: a Toyota Yaris. The dashboard is very cool, much cooler than on this picture. And talking about cool, it also has AC! World Wide Whois - This Whois tool is very handy, perhaps almost as good as the command line interface. Just one of the many nifty Geektools. Caffeinated Soft Drinks - This very nice (but somwhat old) article about caffeinated soft drinks can be found on Dwelling. Personally i really like Mountain Dew, but unfortunatly it isn't for sale here in The Netherlands. New Plaid album - The new Plaid album, "Rest Proof Clockwork", should be out now. The Warp Records site has some nice Flash animations, Real Audio and a Radio mix online. Shake it! - If you want to give your browser a little exercise, go here. Enter the weblog - Push and Portals are some past day internet hypes, but here's a new one: weblogs. You can read all about this new phenomenon here and here. Some good examples are Camworld, Robot Wisdom, Scripting News and Sikkema op het Net (Dutch). Mozilla M8 out - A new release of Mozilla, the future of Netscape browsing, is available now for Linux, MacOS, Windows and BeOS(!). Tiniest web server - Once again the record for the smallest web server has been broken. Check out the IPic, an implementation of a TCP/IP stack on a on a PIC processor. You can start a hosting center in your pocket with a few of these. South Park warning - The ChildCare Action Project (US) warns us about the upcoming South Park movie, "another movie straight from the smoking pits of Hell". Sounds good! Found this link on Slashdot.org. Firecracker Give Away - X10.com is giving away a total amount of 1 million US dollars worth of Firecracker home automation tools for free to readers of freshmeat.net. Only for US and Canada citizens i'm afraid. New features - Thanks to some cool new features in bk2site, the software i use to generate this site, i'm now able to offer bits of news here. So, if you have any news, please send it to me. Your contributions are very welcome!

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