I want a Gmail account. The only way you can get one right now is to be invited into it, and so far I don't know anybody who has one. So if you have a spare invite lying around somewhere, please invite me at

ashcraft@webhack.com

many thanks.....

Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer: Written by Daniel Miessler for Lockergnome

{from Lockergnome's Tech News Watch}

very good points in plain english for the layperson

ZzzzzzzzzzzzAP! : Hardest. Flash. Game. Ever.

{from MetaFilter}

not kidding about this being hard.....gotta have a steady hand to make it all the way through(which I have yet to do....)

Quakers on the WWW:
Digital Quaker Collection Courtesy of Earlham College, the Digital Quaker Collection offers free access to "over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries." More historical texts, including many from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are available from The Quaker Writings Home Page. (Main link via Scribblingwoman.)

{from MetaFilter}

I was raised in the Quaker church, and its good to see information freely available on the web to dispel some of the myths about Quakers.

Not too keen on the new name, but whatever....very cool browser nonetheless. I still don't see why anyone would use anything other than this.....i sure won't ever again....

Nonprofit takes hold of blog tool: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society becomes the keeper of the RSS spec, which could alleviate fears about the future of the Web log-building tool.

{from CNET News.com}

alleviate fears? let's see......the RSS spec(created by dave winer) is being generously handed over from UserLand(owned by dave winer) to the berkman center at harvard(who employs dave winer). i feel so much better now. the guy who controls rss2.0 like saddam controlled iraq has conveniently kept control of his baby. see kids, this is why things like PIE/(n)Echo/Atom(or whatever they call it) are good for the web community.

It's Official: Radio sucks!
{from jenett.radio}

i could have told you that joe......

AOL Kills Netscape: AOL "has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings)." According to some former Netscape employees, "everybody in CPD is getting laid off." Meanwhile, Mozilla goes on at the new Mozilla Foundation.

[via Zeldman]