By the way, for those interested in Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and SIP, I’ve started a SIP Wiki.

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Nothing new here in the last few days because I have been busy working on a Hecklebot prototype as shown in the photo above. I’ve got a first version done. It’s a stand-alone system that is an IRC bot that allows audience members to send comments to speakers at a conference from IRC. The comments…

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When Walmart started selling Lindows PCs last year, I thought it was significant, and pretty cool. Unfortunately Lindows sucks. I can only imagine how much effort they spent in order to screw up working parts of Linux that badly. The conspiracy theorist side in me guessed it was a plot by Microsoft to cast a…

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Rep. Henry Waxman has introduced legislation to create an independent commission to investigate the Bush administration’s distortion of evidence claiming that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our country. http://www.moveon.org/wmdpledge/

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Via let there be peace Check out the new Government Information Awareness website, a response to the Pentagon’s Terrorist Information Awareness program. See story in Boston Globe.

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Alameda Times Star “BERKELEY — After a special all-organic lunch Thursday arranged by Alice Waters, proprietor of Berkeley’s famous Chez Panisse restaurant, Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug made a prediction: There will come a day, he said, when genetically engineered foods will be considered organic and they may wind up on Chez Panisse menus.” full story…

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Via <a href=”http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562288802″>NYT</a> Rumsfeld reports that the costs for the Iraq campain is now $3.9 billion per month, about $2 billion more per month than their April estimate of $2 billion per month. He added that the cost of operations in Afghanistan are about $1 billion per month. “During a grueling four-hour hearing, committee members…

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GABORONE, July 10 (Reuters) “… Bush came face to face with a rhinoceros and her calf munching on a bale of hay. Moments later they spotted four elephants surrounded by a gaggle of attendants. Although the animals appeared to have been pre-positioned, their carnal instincts were beyond official control. After Bush posed for photographs with…

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Since this has already appeared on /. it’s a little late to scoop this one. I’ll simply add that while we geeks can talk about such things until we are blue in the face, having the story make it to a large mainstream news organization like the BBC and affect a major well-known corporation like…

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