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kruegz writes "Here's an article in Salon about the new Matt Groening (creater of The Simpsons) animated show on Fox. Futurama t akes place in the year 3000 and has lots of spoofs of sci-fi as well as that Simpsons aesthetic we all know and love. In the year 3000, our era is known as "The Stupid Ages" which sounds about right. " This article is just my excuse to ask what people are thinking of the show? I'm gonna watch it just 'cuz its Groening.

Dan Marks wrote in with a couple of interesting articles related to taxation and the Internet. You can read an article or editorial on the subject.

Ok I've got tons of stuff worth posting, and we've already posted tons of stuff, sooo, here is a quick list of excellent linkage. This article about Competing Javas was sent in by Dan Marks. xtra sent us this story about 3com's Java work on the palm pilot. Kai Voigt wrote in to tell us that Turkmenistan is selling .tl domains for $50 just like Tonga. Costs more than interNIC? Hmm... Kurt Gray sent us a pair of articles, Bootnet is talking about Matrox's new OpenGL board that is better than VooDoo? And The Onion is running a humorous piece about MS Patenting ones and zeros. Now everyone go back to work!

Dan Marks wrote in to let us know that SGI has a new CEO:Richard Belluzzo. Richard used to be a General manager of sorts over at HP. Read more here.

Dan Marks sends us the followign:"DNS protocol is highly vulnerable to spoofing attacks, and Cylink and RSA may provide royalty-free (at least for a limited time) signature systems to prevent these attacks. The Internet Software Consortium is choosing a standard for DNS security. Read this article"

Dan Marks wrote in to say the following "Clinton's technology consultant Ira Magaziner says that recommendations for privatizing DNS should be out in a few weeks. article

On a similar note, a group that wants to test its new system of top-level domain names, possibly without permission from the existing DNS authorities. article"

Dan Marks sent us this link where you can read about Sun reitterating their commitment to Sparc architecture. We'll see what this does for them when merced debuts.

Dan Marks sent us this news.com story where you can read about Netscape's layoff. I guess a company that lost as much money as they did last quarter can't afford to keep its staff around. Is this the begining of the end? I think somebody at Netscape ought to read this weeks editorial before it's to late *grin*