Elizabeth Grigg coins a new phrase.

I went to the .NET DA meeting tonight over on the Microsoft campus to hear Duncan Mackenzie talk about “Coding for fun at MSDN”.

Mackenzie used to be the Content Strategist for the VB Developer Center, and he’s designed several tools to help with the content on the site. He has written two series of articles: Advanced Basics and Coding4Fun. When he first presented the idea of Coding4Fun, his supervisors rejected the idea. However, he felt that it was important for the hobbyist programmer to have useful articles, as well as the business dev, and wrote the first C4F article just in time for EricR to insist that MSDN needed to provide content for hobbyists. “Funny you should say that, we just happen to have…” :-) He showed us some of the various projects he’s worked on in .NET, including his own version of Media Center, with PocketPC-based remote control.

I’ve been looking for a hook to start learning about VB .NET: this topic is exactly what I need, short of being offered money to learn it. :-)

Also, he used to be a Fox dude. You may have seen my earlier post about Fox being plugged on the VB home page: he was the plugger. :-)

A church in Boulder stole cremated remains of aborted fetuses and put them in their own Memorial Wall.

How low can you go?

Thanks-I-think to FilkerTom.

Ted Roche passes on the news from Dave Winer than Jef Raskin, one of the visionaries behind the Macintosh (and the one who gave it its name), has died.

Update: For more details about Raskin’s work with the Mac, check out Folklore.org.

Nice shot, Vladimir.

But when Bush talked about the Kremlin’s crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs?

Not only do you get the electricity from the photovoltaic cells, but you grab the hot air that shows up around them and make more power.

SciFi.com has put the first regular-season episode up on their site.

Cory@BoingBoing points us to a rebuttal of the Editor-in-chief of the Brittanica’s recent assult on the Wikipedia.

…which alters when it aggregation finds…”

WiFiNetNews gives a good summary of the battle in a single paragraph:

Comcast�s executive vice president asks, in the article, �Is it fair that the industry pay tax dollars to the city that are then used to launch a network that would compete with our own?� Once again, subsidies rear their ugly heads: I�d like Comcast to disclose every penny they�re received in subsidies or allocated taxes. It�s only fair. We already know how much money Verizon got for a fiber-optic network they never built in Pennsylvania.