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[fm] how to write a great freshmeat submission

21-inch iMac revealed

“Would you trade your iMac’s sexy skin for a 21-inch display size? Don Hardy did, and he’s got pictures to prove it. These are fresh off the wire, and it’s so cool, we’ve asked Don for more details. Meanwhile, don’t try this at home! “

The Rise of “Worse is Better”
The theory is that a “worse” system, with say 50% of what is wanted, will succed over a “better” because of cost, earlyier release, etc, and fixing the remain 40% will lock people in. Intrestingly Unix and DOS were examples of a “worse” system succeding.

gasmasks.com

“gasmasks.com to file lawsuit against city of Seattle for outlawing the sale and possession of gas masks. President Mark Miclette states, ‘With the FBI warning US citizens about the possibility of biological and chemical terrorism, how dare Seattle not allow it’s citizens to protect themselves! No one has the right to do this. Doesn’t the US Constitution mean anything any longer?'”

Seattle and the state of the occupation
Another Seattle WTO story from a resident.

NewRules very impressive Manilla site. Not sure what gets me, it is just so striking.

History-of-Hypertext Timeline

Waiting for Browsers that Parse using the web like newsgroups. Very compelling, a user derived “push” downloading webcontent than parsing and reformating to the user’s preferences.

Graphite

“Graphite is a script-driven shell, written by mian, of Skinz.Org, eFX and LiteStep fame. That’s kind of what other shells do.. but what Graphite does that’s different, is that it uses standardized scripting langs. You can choose between JScript, or PerlScript. Yes, that’s right, you can customize your Windows desktop environment with Perl. It’s nifty. Go get it right now, find bugs, make themes, be neat.”

[via GeekNews]

If the world’s population was 100 and the current ratios were maintained

• 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
• 1 would own a computer

[via linkwatcher metalog]