From Boing Boing:

TBL on links and the law. Tim Berners-Lee anticipated NPR‘s absurd link policy in 1997, in this paper on Links and the Law:

The intention in the design of the web was that normal links should simply be references, with no implied meaning.

A normal hypertext link does NOT necessarily imply that

* One document endorses the other; or that

* One document is created by the same person as the other, or that

* One document is to be considered part of another.

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Discuss

(Thanks, Patrick!)

I’d actually thought about looking to see if there was something that TBL wrote about this.

Bob Edwards. “When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.” [Quotes of the Day]

William Blake. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” [Quotes of the Day]

From San-X, the folks who brought us Kogepan, comes my favorite character yet: Beer-chan!

So here’s what tracks are on the soundtrack for Wipeout Fusion:

• Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Hybrid Mix)

• Braniac – Neuro

• Blades & Naughty G – Beats Defective

• BT – SmartBomb (Plump DJs remix)

• Cut La Roc – Bassheads

• JDS – Punk Funk

• Elite Force – Krushyn

• Elite Force & Nick Ryan – Switchback

• Amethyst – Blue Funk

• Utah Saints – Sick

• Plump DJs – Big Groovy Funker

• Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid 2001 (Plump DJs 2001 retouch)

• Timo Maas – Old School Vibes

• Luke Slater – Bolt Up

• Orbital – Funny Break (One is Enough) (Plump DJs remix)

• Nightmares on Wax – Bleu My (wipe mix)

• Bob Brazil – Big Ten

• Intuative – Wav Seeker

• Hong Kong Trash – Down The River (Torrential Rapids mix)

• MKL – Synthaesia

Damn I want this on CD.

Boing Boing has some more coverage on the whole NPR linking issue. It appears that Wired has an article on it where they interview NPR’s Ombudsman. In reading this I once again want to ask the question, “What are you doing on the web if you don’t want people linking to you.” The web exists as it does today because it lets people easily link from one site to another. To those who don’t like that, tough luck.

Here are some other things I just thought of. What are the limits of this. Is it okay to tell someone a link? How about print it in a print publication? Is it illegal to mention an print article in a magazine(not reprint it, just mention it)? How about if you tell someone it is from the July 25th issue on page 6?

Didn’t Small Pieces Loosely Joined talk about this some too? I’d look it up myself, but I’ve lent out my book to my boss. (Hey look, The book was talked about on All Things Considered a few months ago too).

Does anyone here use Quicken for OSX? I’m trying to find out about online banking and bill paying. Does anyone know of banks in the Boston area that support it? I know it is possible to download statements from some bank’s websites, but I don’t know how automated it all is. Anyone able to offer some insight into this? If so, please comment or drop me a line (<%radio.macros.mailTo ()%>).

Cool new product:

Cloudmark’s Anti-Spam Software looks very promising: “The company’s flagship product called SpamNet is the first collaborative spam reporting network capturing nearly every spam attack around the world in real-time to automatically keep 75 percent of spam out of peoples’ inboxes – a percentage that will improve overtime as the network grows.” [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]

This is pretty cool. I tried setting it up yesterday at work and had some issues. I tried it again today and it’s working pretty well. I don’t need to use it at home because I’m using spamassassin, which has support for razor (even though I’m not using the razor part at the moment), the unix app Spamnet is based on.

Marlene Dietrich. “I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” [Quotes of the Day]

Wipeout Fusion is out. And it kicks ass.

Now excuse me while I go race a bit more.