Without naming names,  it's absolutely shocking how many people at development tool companies, don't know that SOAP is not an HTTP-only protocol. I was getting a preview of a very, very nice tool yesterday and was being shown its SOAP support. Very nice stuff, and I saw something that made …

McDonald's is going to switch away to a cooking oil that reduces the amount of trans-fatty acids. Okay, that's great. But the reason they're doing this is because "In July, a New York man sued four fast-food chains, including Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald's, claiming the contributed to his obesity, heart …

Hooray! Monster has made "C#" a searchable keyword. I can't figure out how to paste a direct link, as Radio "unescapes" the escape, but you can now use "C#" in job searches. (Unrestricted except for that keyword: 846 jobs in the US on Monster -- I smell a tracking program!)

"Few at LinuxWorld would dispute the increasing interest in Linux," according to a Wired News article from last month.

In another CACM article, there's a photo of Carlo Sequin's Sculpture Generator. Cross your eyes and dig this! Anyway, the article is by Danny Hillis and makes the important point that just as digital artifacts reflect reality, so too is our reality increasingly being influenced by digital artifacts. The thing …

The latest issue of Communications of the ACM includes an article (The Reality of Simulated Actors) that estimates that it will be 20 years of computing power advances before we'll see digital actors truly capable of verisimilitude. 20 years == 4 orders of magnitude. One can't help but wonder if grid …

Just finished reading the August 2002 issue of Scientific American and, once again, was dismayed at how this magazine that I grew up adoring has declined. There's an article by a scientist who states that his alternative equation for gravity explains the whole "missing mass" problem with the universe. Okay …

"We modeled the [unmanned aerial vehicle's] controller after the PlayStation 2, because that's what these 18- and 19-year old Marine have been playing pretty much all their lives. If a Marine can use Microsoft Word, he can get this plane to fly." -- Major John Cane, Marine Corps Airfighting Lab, as …

Macintosh, not just evil, but Communist! "Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. "

If you do video editing on Windows XP, don't install the DirectX 8 SDK. It appears to install a debug version of the libraries (I think, most importantly, quartz.dll) that screws up, at the very least, ULead MediaStudio Pro and Scenalyzer. Probably other video editing software, too, because I …