cellio | caching the browser tabs

Aside: LJ has been really crawling for me for the last several days. Is this happening to other people too, or do I have a local problem? (LJ is blocked at work, so I can't collect that data point.)

I've got a lot of stuff accumulating in browser tabs on a wide variety of topics, so...

The (spam)bot wars heat up, by jducoeur.

I'm a little behind in my tech news. siderea posted a helpful summary of the news about cracking the DRM code on DVDs and the subsequent firestorm on Digg.

merle_ on the true reasons behind the bee population problem.

Why programmers should never become ministers, link from aliza250. Satan is a MIS director who takes credit for more powers than he actually possesses, so people who aren't programmers are scared of him. God thinks of him as irritating but irrelevant.

insomnia on the new military rules that significantly limit participation in blogs, mailing lists, and so on. I saw an article that quoted an anonymous military source saying "we didn't mean that; use common sense". I don't know enough yet to have a handle on what's really going on, but it bears watching.

South Park Mac vs. PC, link from bkdelong.

Unconventional greeting cards, like "your painful breakup has made me feel less alone" and "your cell phone ringtone is damaging your career". Link from thatcrazycajun.

In light of my recent post about kippot in synagogues and elsewhere, I found this post on hair-covering by katanah interesting.

Cached for later reading: Clay Shirky: A group is its own worst enemy. (He's talking about online fora.) Link from Geek Etiquette.

And, for those in the SCA, what looks like a thoughtful and fascinating conversation about staying in-period at events versus talking about your computer, and why people go to events anyway, and what changes we might want to make. This post by msmemory has an overview and links to several other posts I would have mentioned here but now don't have to.