DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

This is a decent thriller, with a few too many characters for my taste. Keeping track of everybody poses a small demand on the reader.

The story is well-paced, telling a somewhat complex story of a murder that took place 30 years before — now the killer is out of prison, and one by one the people who knew him best are dropping dead. Someone’s getting revenge, but who? And for what? Ferrigno keeps the reader guessing.

Patronize these links, man:

• half.com (used)
• Amazon (paperback)

Dave Winer says, I bet Aladdin will sell a lot of these. I fear he’s right. Where do I sign to prevent it?!

This is pretty much the last thing in the world I need: “high-impact emails” with “vivid colors, eye-catching photos, and plenty of web links”.

The only question now is whether anyone has developed a qmail filter that refuses delivery of HTML email, the arterial plaque of electronic communications.

Serendipity! Today, CamWorld published a link to this: Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text

I’ve released a new version of the software that powers this website. Changes include:

• Channels/genres lists can be maintained via a new admin form
• Journal items can be categorized into multiple channels
• Bugfix: new query restrictions prevent visitors from previewing future content

Also, there’s now a mailing list to support Monaural Jerk users; see the FAQ for more info.

Google taught the world that there’s always room for a better search engine. Now perhaps Wisenut is going to repeat the lesson.

The Wisenut technology overview is worth reading. Be sure to download their search engine white paper; it details why Wisenut’s WISErank technology is superior to Google’s PageRank in producing relevant results.

Here’s a picture of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates surrounded by the detritus of his dim-bulb ideas, e.g.

• faking evidence in the antitrust trial
• “embracing and extending” Java
• smart tags
• buying Intuit
• Documenting the company’s strategy to discredit Linux/open-source software in the Halloween Documents
• Declaring war on open-source even though Microsoft uses open-source software themselves

If you have anything to add, drop me an email; I’ll update the list.