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Interestingly enough, now the good doctor is saying that he was forced to step down from the position, rather than resigning on his own. And it seems that the police aren't behaving as though they believed his little adventure story, either.

What's going on here? I don't know, but this is getting better and better.....

Oh, and here's a picture of the doc with his black eyes; looks strange to me, but decide for yourself. Also consider that students who saw the doc about six hours later in class reported that they barely noticed facial bruises (one said that he didn't see any at all). The arm bruise looks real enough, but are the eyes a makeup job? The discoloration on the arm spreads out, whereas the discoloration around the eyes stops abruptly. Very strange.

Not all newspapers are behind the times. I'm fortunate to have worked for the Web sites of two news companies that really "get it" -- the Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas, and the Washington Post.

The Journal-World's Web sites (including http://www.ljworld.com/ and http://www.lawrence.com/ allow comments on every story. Readers can have their own weblogs, and the site makes intensive database apps, on deadline, for all sorts of stuff -- like a database of every little-league game (e.g. http://www2.ljworld.com/game/2005/fields/langston_ hughes/). FWIW, the operation has been covered by the New York Times and NPR.

Similarly, washingtonpost.com is quite good. We just launched Post Remix, which encourages developers to put together apps with our RSS feeds. Check it out.

I wrote a piece explaining some of the history of Django here: http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/07/17/django

Key points: it's not a Rails clone - development started around October 2003 and similarities to Rails are almost entirely coincidental. It's been used on a number of sites: http://www.lawrence.com/ is a good example. Finally, the open-source version hasn't even reached an initial release yet so naturally it's not nearly as polished or stable as Rails. Give it some time!

Free! Stream for free! Download for free! No DRM! User Playlists! Actual good music! Finally 2 words

Creamy Jesus http://www.lawrence.com/mp3/622/

Free! Stream for free! Download for free! No DRM! User Playlists! Actual good music! Finally 2 words

Creamy Jesus http://www.lawrence.com/mp3/622/

And where exactly did you hear '2003'? Was that from Microsoft, or Bungie?

Back in January of 2004, they first announced the 'fall 2004' date. Prior to that, it was just "when it is done."

Then, in May, they gave the November 9th date.

So you might be barking up the wrong tree with the Halo 2 release date. They told us 6 months ahead of time the DAY it would be released. And they hit it.

1) Anyone remember this rumor? So, the Xbox2 is going to use ATI and PPC technology, just like the Game Cube. Maybe backwards compatibility is going to be in the box, just not with the Xbox . . .

2) Now if you hack an Xbox2 to run Linux, do you get a cheap, MOL-capable G5-based machine? Wouldn't that be nice and Apple-infuriating . . .