Nothing and Some More

WHEDONesque : blogging the JossVerse is a community weblog discussing the work of TV maker Joss Whedon. ( via Milov.nl)

Speaking of Buffy, I was watching Once more with feeling last night (it should have been nominated, they said) and I couldn't help wondering how it's going to sound like in French!
My favorite line wasn't sung though:
SPIKE: (disappointed) Oh. So that's all. You've just come to pump me for information.
BUFFY: What else would I wanna pump you for? (cringes) I really just said that, didn't I? (from The Buffy transcripts)

Reminded me also of an old episode of Moonlighting that I can find. I wondered if Moonlighting's out in DVD ? Not really, it seems

Mexico: Mexicans fear that work will head south or Mexico Is Attracting a Better Class of Factory in Its South

IberoAmerica: The Iberoamerican Telework Congress that started last week and will run until Aug. 30

Struggling economies and vast rural areas with poor communication are a common denominator in the region, and telework can help bridge that gap.

India moves to deregulate wireless LAN usage (via Tomalak's Realm)

The Indian government has moved to deregulate indoor use of wireless local-area networking (WLAN) equipment based on IEEE 802.11b standards. A plan to deregulate outdoor use of 802.11b WLANs is also in the works

Asia again: The Entertainment Village (E-Village), modelled after US Universal Studios, intended to make Malaysia the hub of the booming Asian film industry, is in financial trouble, Kylie too hot for Malaysians, the World Health Organisation says Asians are fat on the inside and One of the hardest things about doing business in Asia, at least for this innocent American, is that bribery can be a way of life
Plus China will be a software giant soon.

What to do with $50,000 ?? How about the Phnom Penh Post ? (via Cambodia Today (nice photo gallery there, btw) and Camnews)

The Post's 3,000 copies are read mostly by expatriates, overseas subscribers and government officials. It costs 80 cents, too expensive for most people in a country where the average monthly salary of a government clerk is $20.
Today, the Post's biggest challenge is the bottom line.
O'Keefe and Hayes said the Post just breaks even. Advertising fills less than 30 percent of the paper's 16 pages. The U.S. newspaper industry aims for a roughly 50-50 split.

A 5K chess player: the making-of

A faster OSX ? Dr. Mac's Seven Quick'n Dirty speed tips Speaking of AAPL, buy! the Reg says so, so does the Fool and MS.

Choosing the right XML parser

You like your blog baked or fried ? or the return of the static pages. Good!

Blog Styles: 5 lines at a times Or one word per link, an experiment (via Burning Bird)
Another blog style discussion, this time about BoingBoing's linking straightjacket

Novel Concepts (via Wanna Write)

In most B & N's Catcher isn't on the shelves -- it's kept behind the counter and you have to ask for it, for reasons that have been variously explained to me: either it's among the most-likely-to-be-shoplifted books, or it's too obscene or subversive or something for today's delicate (don't let those tattoos fool you) young people. In fact, Catcher isn't the only book kept behind the counter at B&N (go ahead, ask them). All kinds of other major subversives and experimentalists are back there, too, from Vladimir Nabokov to Jack Kerouac to William Burroughs to the heinous Paul Auster.

CD of the Week: You Don't Need Darkness To Do What You Think Is Right, a compilation.

A French Woman Reveals ALL

And the usual size matters: Bigger is better when it comes to the G spot