Jon Udell: “The Xopus demo is, indeed, an eye-opener.” [Scripting News]
Editing the Page intelligently on the page.

Real opens source but keeps its crown jewels. Bid for ubiquity [The Register]

With Allies Likely and Unlikely, U.S. Navy Stems Flow of Iraqi Oil. The United States and its allies, with quiet help from Iran, have all but shut off the flow of illegal Iraqi oil in the Persian Gulf. By Michael R. Gordon. [New York Times: Politics]

digitalMASS: Microsoft Tablet PC technology a stroke of genius. It’s been several years since Microsoft decided that future portable computers would be slate-like tablets, controlled by a stylus rather than a keyboard. It’s taken this long for the company to get the software together and to work with computer makers on the necessary hardware. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Media Center PCs unleashed. Sunday newspaper ads reveal details of Media Center PCs that Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard plan to unveil Tuesday. [CNET News.com]
Way to high end for the market?

SJ Mercury: Tools coming for connecting information. Dan Gillmor. But we need more sophisticated methods for gathering, massaging and making connections among all the pieces of information that enter our lives each day — everything from e-mail to Web pages to phone numbers and more. So when I see useful tools, I pay attention. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Behind the grief, whispers about politics. The popular incumbent was fighting a tough reelection battle, and both parties wonder how his death will change the balance of power in the Democrat-controlled Senate. [Salon.com]

DivX DVD Players Arrive. division21 writes “Geeks rejoice — DivX Enabled DVD Players finally surface! (With all the goodies: MP3, SVCD, etc.) I remember when MP3 compatability … [Slashdot]

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. WallsRSolid writes “Microsoft just finished a week-long series of lectures and demos at my university, and the product that really stole the show was the … [Slashdot]

Big Brother Lifetime Award Goes To Microsoft. D4C5CE writes “Microsoft’s ceaseless “success” in bringing instability, insecurity and breaches of privacy as well as a deplorable lack of open standards to … [Slashdot]
What’s intresting here is that microsoft didn’t win any actual awards, (probably becuase there isn’t any actual active bad behavior). They created the lifetime achievement for Microsoft for not using enough standards, older products being crash and virus prone and what they thought Microsoft might do in the future. What sorta crap is that? If you have a current complaint speak it. If there are future concerns call attention to it. However at some point let the past be a place to draw lessons from, not vile.