IBM "Solutions" conference focuses on XML Hands-on tutorial sessions include those on XML & Java, XSLT and VoiceXML. Eighteen other sessions feature XML, including diverse subjects from "AS/400 Application Integration" to "The Role of XSL Transformations in e-business Solutions".

The Good E-Book Literature's next big revolution will be digitized. What's so scary about that? By JACOB WEISBERG (free subscription to nytimes required)

John Perry Barlow: Napster.com and the Death of the Music Industry An editorial by Grateful Dead lyricist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow.

XHTML: A Bridge To The Future Hypertext Markup Language, an aging, inflexible formatting standard, has fueled the phenomenal growth of the Web. Now a new technology, a flexible data-markup standard called Extensible Markup Language, promises nearly complete flexibility.

"Truth in advertising" - vintage cigarette & tobacco ads This site is powered by the white-hot bitterness of long-term Nicotine withdrawal.

The Programmer's File Format Collection Wotsit's Format, the complete programmer's resource on the net. This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.

Family Tree Research It's in Great Britain. They keep track of the graves and other info for soldiers killed in WW1 and WW2. There's a DB search of personnel and service records. Surname is required to search. Other info can help narrow it down.

Lee Iacoca's peddling an electric bicycle The new E-Bike is lighter, faster, and has much longer range than past generations of electric vehicles. With a top speed of 15mph and a range of about 20 mi., the E-Bike will get you where you need to go. Whether it’s to get you up and over those hills or simply to get you home after a long ride, The E-Bike’s remarkable Power on Demand drive train is always ready. No hassle. No stopping to make adjustments. Just a simple click of the “thumb throttle” and the reliable electric hubmotorengages, delivering all of the power needed to keep you moving.

From the people who created the Statue of Liberty? Web users in France who want to publish online will have to register their intent with the government, if a bill being considered by French Parliament this week is passed.

Micro Publishing "Micro Publishing" or publishing "Books on Demand" has been, up until now, only a dream. Most of the pieces were already in place, (Desktop Publishing Software, Laser Printers, Imposition Software, etc.). The last key ingredient was an inexpensive way to bind and cover the books into professional looking "Perfect Bound" books. The future just arrived.

Stalled in Paradise A quiet but profound revolution is taking place in suburban America, affecting the way people there think about government, taxes, property rights, the free market, and the idea of community itself, and it is being sparked by that most mundane of phenomena: the traffic jam.

The Alternate History Travel Guides From Larkfarm, "A strange mix of fiction, history, and perhaps even roleplaying. This site has travelogs and other articles covering a wild mix of alternative Earths. It's all presented in the form of travel guidebook entries on places like the Lawrencian Emirate in the mideast or the Three Papacies in Europe. Lots of fun "what-if" scenarios to think about here."

Virtual Dr - Drivers Here you can search for the latest drivers for your system and it's peripherals.

Transmeta's Crusoe, Friday is lost for words - Introduction Transmeta has developed a whole new approach to microprocessor design. Currently an entire processor with the accompanied instruction set is implemented in hardware (for example an x86 processor such as the Intel Pentium III), and then the software is written specifically to make use of that instruction set. Transmeta chose to do it differently; rather than implementing the entire x86 instruction set of the processor in hardware, the Crusoe processor consists of a compact hardware engine surrounded by a software layer.