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diathesis writes "The Candian Copyright Board has finally implemented the long-feared recordable media levy. Fortunately, the tariff is 5.2 cents per disc for CD-R and CD-RW media, which is far less than had been reported as likely. " A serious question: they distinguish between "Audio CDs" and "CDs". Is a blank CD somehow different? Because it's 60 cents for Audio CDs. Update: 12/17 02:08 by H :If you want to speak-out against this, check out this petition.

Greyfox wrote in to say that a chunk of gnew gnome stuff is up. Full set of 0.99.3 tar balls for those livin' on the edge. In a related bit, GVeloper wrote in to mention the new cross referenced gtk documentation at GTK Dev Central Several other folks have commented that yet another Linux Kernel 2.2 prerelease is out. Hit the mirrors if you want it. My favorite BSD Equal Time activist, Jesse Shrieve wrote in to tell us that you can get metal FreeBSD squares to attach to your cases. maphew sent us a link to milo which claims to be a telnetable TRS-80. "I remember when" yada yada. That was my first programming experience. Next, a few Slashdot bits: Epitaph sent us a interesting little piece of Evidence of the Slashdot Effect in Effect: The results of a Petition against Canadian CD-R Tax. rive submitted a simple perl script that converts Slashdot Headlines to Window Maker Menus. Clever. DGibson wrote in to tell us that Slashdot rated Coolest site at Planet Click. Last of all, insanity never stops:An anonymous joker sent us a link to The All Squirrels Must Die page. and William Tanksley sent us a link to the shrunken heads HOWTO. Be afraid.

Darren Morofke wrote to ask the Canadians in our audience to head over and sign a petition against the proposed CD-R tax. We had covered this tax when it was first coming around-let's see if we can help put a stop to this.