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Flight Sim - April 16, 2005

X-Plane - a very cool looking, realistic flight simulator.
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000706.php

Open Source License Summary - April 16, 2005

There's lots of noise on the wires about Sun's choice of CDDL (a Mozilla-style license). Simon Phipps dissects the arguments and ends with a nice summary of three main classes of license. If you're looking at open sourcing code, this post is a must read. If you hate Sun, don't bother to read it.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink/20050415

In five years... - April 12, 2005

Very humorous observation about the point in the future where people will suspend belief about what's possible. Danny Hillis always used to say that the 21st century was the future, but it got closer and closer as the 20th drew to a close.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/11/popularity_of_using_.html