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BBSpot: New Law Protects Free Speech. The Free Speech Protection Act [FSPA] ensures free speech by encrypting the first amendment and only allowing properly licensed corporations and individuals to use it. Laugh, it’s satire.

TechReview: Digital Preservation [via Tomalak's Realm] Interesting article that just scratches the surface of the problems faced by the Library of Congress in preserving its increasingly digital archive. Salient quote: To demonstrate the [emulation] approach’s feasibility, he created a chain of emulators linking a present-day PC to the 1949 EDSAC, one of the first computers.

Slashdot: GNU/Emacs 21 released. Download the source and compile it yourself. Precompiled Linux RPMs and Windows binaries are for wimps, and besides, they’re not available yet anyway.

For those of you not enlightened enough to have spent your youth engaged in religious wars over text editors, allow me to quote from this Slashdot post (with apologies to Emo Philips, who did it better in the original):

I asked my email-pal: "UNIX or Windoze?". 
He replied "UNIX". 
I said "Ah...me too!". 

I asked my email-pal: "Linux or AIX?". 
He said "Linux, of course". 
I said "Me too". 

I asked him: "Emacs or vi". 
He replied "Emacs". 
I said "Me too. Small world." 

I asked him: "GNU Emacs or XEmacs?", 
and he said "GNU Emacs". 
I said "oh, me too." 

I asked him "GNU Emacs 19 or GNU Emacs 20"? 
and he said "GNU Emacs 19". 
I said "oh, me too." 

I asked him, "GNU Emacs 19.29 or GNU Emacs 19.34", 
and he replied "GNU Emacs 19.29". 
I said "DIE YOU OBSOLETE NOGOOD SOCIALLY
MALADJUSTED CELIBATE COMMIE FASCIST DORK!"
and never emailed him again.

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