Rough Drafts

Cascading style sheets: Don’t be afraid. Dave Raggett explains CSS in a clear, common-sensical way.

The Invisible Library catalogs imaginary books.

DOJ to prosecute individual P2P file traders? Maybe.

Alex Golub has a brilliant critique of Lawrence Lessig’s recent OSCON speech — complete with the song that Lessig should have sung. Even Lessig commends it. And here’s Alex’s followup note, with a very pointed comment on Lessig vs. Winer.

A startup spam-filtering company is using haiku in email headers as a way of stopping spam. The idea is that you can set up your email program to reject all email that doesn’t contain this haiku in the header… but if spammers try to use the haiku, they can be sued for copyright and trademark […]

The Light & Dust Anthology of Poetry is a large collection of obscure contemporary poetry rescued from small-run printings, tiny journals, and other sources.

John Udell reviews a handful of RSS aggregators.

An excellent profile of Bruce Schneier in the September Atlantic , by Charles C. Mann, explains why the current administration’s approach to increasing national security is misguided. Some quotes: Encrypting transactions on the Internet, the Purdue computer scientist Eugene Spafford has remarked, “i

Dan Bricklin on small business blogging.

Business blogs: Phillip Windley, CIO for the state of Utah, offers weblogging software to state employees.

File traders swapped 5.16 billion music files last year on networks like KaZaA and Morpheus, according to this recent Yankee Group study. Here’s another story on the same study.

Books with sneaky shrinkwrap licenses? You know the kind — by opening this package, you agree to blah blah blah. Software packages have long had this kind of language slapped all over them, in an effort to keep you from doing certain things (copying, reselling, reverse engineering). Now, it seems, b