Dave Winer:

Here’s what Google can do for weblogs that would be a service to the weblog community — classify and group them. Give me an accurate list of all the librarian weblogs, and all the lawyer weblogs, and all the weblogs of people who have implemented an XML-RPC stack. You get the idea. They have been able to do this with news stories, it seems they should also be able to do it with weblogs. This is the biggest unsolved problem I see in this world, and I don’t know how to solve it, it’s not what I do. Postscript: Tom Matrullo wants this too. (Scripting News)

Time to say farewell to an old friend.

Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday.

New Trick for Script Menu

A neat new feature in Jaguar’s Script Menu allows you to put applicatation-specific scripts at the top level of the menu… (Daring Fireball)

Faking the Lomo effect

I’ve always liked the look of Lomo photos (typically bright colored and highly saturated with darkened edges), but I didn’t want to worry about getting another camera or messing with film & scanning. Yesterday I asked people if there was a Photoshop filter that could turn a regular photo into a Lomo-style photo. Several people responded with the Melancholytron filter and a tutorial on achieving the Lomo effect without using filters… (kottke.org)

Isn’t this rather like ‘Fox to Release Henhouse Security Software’?

REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Friday said it will release software this summer allowing corporations to control access to sensitive internal documents, such as financial statements and e-mail. The new software could allow companies to prevent the increasingly common practice of sensitive internal memos being leaked to the Internet by setting tough rules on how such documents are passed around and printed, Microsoft said.

Original Reuters article. /. also has coverage.

On the other hand, perhaps it’s more like ‘Hen Who Repeatedly Lets Fox In Henhouse Releases Henhouse Security Software.’