The Standard: “American students' grasp of math and science pales in comparison to other countres. Why? Because our textbooks are so inaccurate that the Earth might as well be flat.”

Stapler is a “tool for Radio UserLand that creates RSS feeds from sources you select, scraped hourly (or every N hours, variable for each source) from HTML web sites.” [via Dave's Handsome Radio Blog] [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

Simple Dublin Core Encoding in XML [More Like This WebLog]

News.Com: “With sales falling well short of even its worst forecasts and its cash dwindling, Palm faces a number of tough decisions in the coming months.” [Scripting News]

O'Reilly: An Interview with Jennifer Niederst « Jennifer Niederst has been designing for the Web since the early days of the medium, and she was the original designer of O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), which was the first commercial Web site. She has also taught Web design at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Interactive… Continue reading An Interview with Jennifer Niederst

board-tnk 1.2 (Default). A discussion board written in PHP. [freshmeat.net]

eXist 0.4 (Default). An XML document repository and retrieval engine. [freshmeat.net]

Mailing list for RDF and digital libraries. The W3C have create a new mailing list, www-rdf-dspace, as a forum for collaboration between the Semantic Web and digital library projects such as MIT's DSpace project. [xmlhack]

How to write small projects really fast. This is a collection of techniques that I've found useful for working on small coding projects at high speed. I'm interested in other people's suggestions as well. [Advogato]

Forbes ASAP: The Humane Touch: Bad Design Can Be Costly. Jef Raskin. The saying among IT professionals used to be, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” Now it's, “Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft.” Sometimes we forget that whenever you do exactly what everybody else does, you lose an opportunity for a competitive… Continue reading The Humane Touch: Bad Design Can Be Costly