Sorry to all you hockey fans but the season’s been cancelled…link.

Zawinski writes about software development.

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the two masterminds who created the internet, are set to recieve the Turing Prize this year. The 2004 A. M. Turing Award is widely considered to be the computing field’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
NY Times article.

OSCAR HOST CHRIS ROCK SHOCK: ABORTION IN AMERICA IS ‘BEAUTIFUL’

An essay was written by a Bihari Candidate in India
Essay on the Indian cow:
Indian Cow
HE IS THE COW. “The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [but will do so when he is got child.] He is sacred to Hindus and [...]

There’s been a lot of great discussions about email productivity going around on sites I enjoy, so I thought I’d throw in five no-brainers that I’ve seen help a lot of folks.

Shut off auto-check - Either turn off automatic checking completely, or set it to something reasonable, like every 20 minutes or so. If you’re [...]

Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing
In honor of the upcoming Valentine’s day, presumably, Hollywood has broken its weekly release of horror films, a practice it successfully introduced more than a month ago, and is instead premiering a film about a male matchmaker and another about a lovable heffalump. The former film is [...]

Google recently switched from using dictionary.com to answers.com for their “definition” links. Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google said this regarding the switch:
This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and [...]

Dave Zat threw together a good introductory guide to TiVoToGo, which lets you (finally) copy shows from your TiVo’s hard drive to your PC. He covers all the basics, like how it works and what you need to get rolling, but he doesn’t hold back on any of the really good stuff, like how to [...]

“The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday a sweeping set of rules aimed at forcing states to issue all adults federally approved electronic ID cards, including driver’s licenses”