Java 1.5 Is Dead…long live Java 5.0.: “Why can’t people who market software count? … It appears that the defining attribute of open source software is a predictable versioning scheme.”

OK…I like the Supremes again. *wink* (Just joshin’ ya, Justices…my respect doesn’t travel much higher than SCOTUS).

No presidential monopoly on war powers

First glance, this looks quite impressive. I was actually starting to think that these cases would all go the Executive Branch’s way, effectively giving Bush carte blanche during wartime; a “wartime” he defines, and of indefinite duration. Apparently, some other folks saw some potential problems with that too…

I’ve got to go read these rulings now. Exsqueeze me.

I get the best links from Boing Boing. I mean, check these out:

Monty Python Black Knight model rocket

Bizzare Spider-Man comic strip remixes

Orrin Hatch criminalizes the iPod

(Thanks also to Stefan Jones, Warren, Jay Pinkerton, and Jason Schultz for the original info.)

Some days, you can spend all your time just on links off on BoingBoing. If you’re only going to read one aggregating blog, that’s my recommendation.

Keeping name private can be crime, court rules. Wow. We’ve really reached a point where “efforts to get information about terrorists” (part of the argument made by the Justice Department) trumps just about anything. This is scary. Identification in our society is more than just your name…it’s a passport to a vast amount of information about your life, your interests, your political and social opinions. To think that this won’t be abused is naive.

Oh well. All part of “The Government; Here To Help”.

With a little luck, the first piloted private space flight to 100km will occur on Monday. I’m crossing my fingers…this is A Big Deal. We are hopefully close to the beginning of an exciting new period of exploration, discovery, and colonization of the Solar System. (Can you tell I’m a space nerd? *grin*)

Many links to more info available…just google or news google SpaceShipOne, for starters. The Ansari X-Prize is another good place to start (they won’t be eligible for it on Monday, b/c they’re not planning on repeating w/in the 3 week period required to win. But the expectation is that the X Prize may well be won by the end of this year!)

Cool…apparently CNN will have live coverage!

The Bots: The George W. Bush Public Domain Audio Archive — ” a public domain database of the speeches of George W. Bush. Every phrase from each major speech has been made into an individual audio file, where the filename is, in most cases, the exact text content of the sample.”

Oh…I can think of ideas HERE…*grin*

engadget: How-To Tuesday: Make your own Pirate Radio Station with an iPod — LOL! Tips include keeping a couple of tracks of silence available (to override blasting radios when you’re stuck in traffic), and faux news flashes for places like the gym, where cable news audio is broadcast over short range FM. Excellent! A great example of “the street finding it’s own use for things”…