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• Umberto Eco – "Writings: IBM vs. Mac"
  This piece from 1994 was mentioned in a message I received today and seems more relevant than ever – although it may be that "Google" now plays the role of "DOS" and it may be that the churchmanship involved for them is an evangelical house-church…
  (tags: Mac DOS Religion History philosophy windows computing culture zeitgeist Google)
• Quality over time in Munich
  In which Floschi explains that the apparently slow implementation over in the City of Munich is becuase there's a full scale generational change going ion in their IT systems, and that any change of this magnitude would be just as slow even if it did not involve free/open source software.
  (tags: FOSS OpenSource Munich Government Procurement Strategy)
• 3hive: Bonobo
  This is some really good stuff from Bonobo. The frequency of posts on 3Hive seems to be way down but the quality (at least on my taste-o-meter) is way up.
  (tags: 3Hive Music)

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