Bill and Steve

Thank your teacher in six words, at [Teachersday.sg](http://teachersday.sg/). There are so many things I want to say, I don’t know where to begin. A few of my favourite teachers are, sadly, deceased. Would it look strange to write, ‘Rest in peace. We love you.”?

A message from nekada.com: “meet in a nice restaurant (istanbul, 18 19 20 october) is an event which consists of three dinners. goal is to connect people who are related to new media. so far event took place two times in milano, once in montpellier and once in roma. from 18th until 20th october it…

No, I didn’t take part in it (like I have the time to redesign this site!). But you can check out the participants in this year’s May 1st Reboot website. There are too many sites to review, but a random sampling proved to be disappointing – some looking like normal weblogs with fancy backgrounds. Others…

A thought-provoking video on Facebook’s privacy policy and the risks we face, along with background info of some people pulling the strings behind the scenes. It alleges that there may be links with the CIA and US Department of Defence. Thanks to Overacuppa for sending me this link.

Shame on you, Microsoft. As Zeldman puts it, it’s strange that the same corporation which advocates web standards, fails to implement web standards on its own, newly-revamped website.

Behold, the world’s first 400GB hard disk (from Hitachi). NetNewsWire looks like a nifty feed reader designed for OSX. Google can now search flash files. Link from Kottke via Waxy.org. iTunes sells 70 million songs in first year.