Freeware and Open Source Software directory

These folks want you to learn more about the net, and to use more OSS. Two worthy goals for a nicely designed site. Check them out if you are looking for free and open source alternatives to your IM, Word Processor, etc.

Laszlo Hosting!

I wonder why it's taken so long for there to be a hosting provider for laszlo apps. However, the wait seems to be over with ArrowBreeze. I know next to nothing about them, but they seem to know enough about Laszlo to be able to offer different kinds of hosting accounts. Check them out.

Watch the first 9 minutes of Serenity!

Not sure who vividas is, but I saw this on digg, and it's amazing. Watch fullscreen video high quality the first 9 minutes of Serenity. Very cool. After you're done - go see it in the theaters. After that, perhaps go pick up the new Serenity Role Playing Game

Make your own SETI station

If you have any old satellite dish lying around you can become an amateur radio astronomer. Check it out. - (found this on digg.com)

Digg Spy

This is a very addictive page. Basically it allows you to see every few seconds what other Digg users have voted on since you last checked.

Another big Web Apps list

This list is - appropriately enough - called the Unofficial Web Applications List.
More Web 2.0 apps whee!

Survey Results

Thank you all so much for responding to my survey! I got some great responses which have helped me decide what direction to go in creating a game. It's looking like this will be a Laszlo based Action RPG with Retro graphics. (Plus alot more).

Look for more details soon.

The 11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition

Interactive fiction holds a dear place in my heart. It's like the reptillian brain of what could become an amazing new kind of application. Dont get me started. Anyway go download some of the games and become a judge.

Build your own social apps: Ning

I always thought it would be cool to have a site like this - where you could build your own apps easily and "clone" them. Check out Ning - it seems to allow you to create social apps quickly and somewhat more easily than just "on your own".

The Open Content Alliance

From the blog post:

Is Open Content the next step in the traditions of Open Source and an Open Network? Many people seem to think so (and wouldn't it be great?). Working with libraries, government institutions, archives, technology companies, web companies-- and we all are saying the same thing-- it is time to have more great material available on the Internet and to be able to have it be open and free.

Congrats to my co-workers who worked hard to get this out the door in a timely fashion. Great work!

(also, here's a link to the open archives site - which tries to collect links to all the other "open archives".)

NaBazTag the internet enabled rabbit

Many many folks are going to overlook the significance of this little device. It's always on the net, it modifies itself based off on internet information, and it's a cute little toy. I'm envisioning some amazing animatronic dragon that sits at your computer using silent muscle wires and engages you in an intelligent conversation about some blog or podcast. A cyber-familiar that brings into the "real world" the data you typically just see on a screen. This is the beginning of that. Smart Objects.