Mark@Fjord (who's just started blogging, by the way) has an interesting post about why people talk loudly on their phones in public: "...we tend to moderate our volume by ambient noise (loud on a train for instance) and how well we can hear our interlocutor, which of course does not bear on how well they can hear us"

I'd never noticed NetNewsWire doing this before:

Is it really noticing changes between versions of a story in an RSS feed and highlighting said changes? If so - WOW. If the Guardian have the honesty to be driving this process in any way: WOW.

Cory Doctorow, succinctly sums up mobile DRM: "Well, locomotives didn't require horseshoes. You know, the blacksmiths might not have liked the fact that locomotives didn't require horseshoes. But if you started a business to outfit locomotives with special horseshoes in order to keep the blacksmiths happy, you probably wouldn't have lasted very long. Likewise, if you're starting a business to outfit phones with special locks that make it hard to copy things in order to make the music industry happy, then you're probably not long for this world. "

The Bear.

This morning I reached a particularly unpleasant milestone, and received what I *think* is the first spam email I've ever had explicitly advertising child pornography (maybe there have been others, but the spam filters caught them if so).

Bizarrely, it even includes a telephone number and postal address... But with a little investigation the spam looks like the work of this guy - i.e. it's an attempt to frame someone rather than a genuine advert.