Cool defense technology blog. Is there anything Aviation Week can't do?

A bit of a one-tone joke, but it's a pretty good one.

Quoted: The James Randi Educational Foundation is a non-profit learning resource aimed at promoting critical thinking everywhere.

"Bunnie" made his name by hacking the Xbox. His blog has a series of interesting posts drawn from his work in getting a new product manufactured in China.

List of "named laws" for development rules of thumb.

Quoted: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

A parody of Microsoft's "People Ready" campaign.

Crude.... but funny.

Wow! I just got finished reading about Via's new 1.9 lb. $600 Win Laptop, here's Intel & Asus with 1/3 the cost. Powerful (relatively), light, cheap hardware is in development on many fronts!

A comment in Bob Sutor's "Open Blog" contains an analysis I hadn't seen before (quoted in part)

Quoted: OOXML is just a part of Microsoft strategy. XML is sed to please the technical inept. Starting with Office 12, and it is now publicly reported that Office 14 pushes the strategy much beyond, Microsoft is pursuing an integration suite strategy in which server components such as their own MS Sharepoint are part of the equation. You read it right : you will soon be unable to work with MS Office documents if you don’t also use MS Sharepoint. Problem : the protocols by which Word/Excel/Powerpoint talk with Sharepoint are not documented, probably never will (Samba, anyone?). And the MS Office team was ordered by Bill Gates to remove any support for open protocols such as WebDAV to do this kind of communication http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf).