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sun is going to apparently ship the t1000 and t2000 servers (the niagra sparc models) with ubuntu linux. it shows the good of ubuntu and the bad of java. currently, there is no linux/sparc version. surely it’s coming. still doesn’t change the fact that it would seem to be a huge win for sun/java to gpl it and have it distributed with every linux distro. i still don’t really see where they’re making a lot of money from java other than keeping a set of software that runs on something other than windows. then again, most linux distros ship with python, c, perl, php, ruby, etc.

this leads to another project from sun named phobos that will eventually see a javascript interpreter for the jvm. it is interesting to use the same programming language for both the client and server. when was it that netscape shipped this in their enterprise server, 1995/96?

a bad video of the colombian goalkeeper scoring against poland during their friendly the other day.

everything a girl needs to know about the offsides rule in football from a book “everything a girl needs to know about football“.

marginally interesting video about hdtv and the world cup.

enjoy.

they posted a good video from youtube of football skills. notably absent are any goals being scored or showing that the passes were actually succesful.

apparently, the times online is very good with the fact checking. i know we aren’t supposed to see color if we’re going to be politically correct, but this seems a bit far. for the record, in case they actually fix it, they have a picture of taylor twellman for eddie johnson. i guess that’s as close to the world cup as tayor’s going to get.
u.s.a. player nicknames

clint dempsey: “don’t tread on this” music video.

Shevchenko is going to chelsea. raise your hand if you’re surprised. i find his comments about learning english a bit weird.

“The only way to be able to teach our children our love that we have for them is the English language.”

i’m all for english becoming the “common language” (seems on it’s way already, especially here and in europe. probably due to a lot of people in europe wanting to come to england (easy from e.u. countries) or go to the u.s.)), but that just seems like a strange thing to say. maybe his english still isn’t that good.

while this bit is about football, i think the point about whether or not or how you identify with your own country is interesting. you are generally left with do you identify with the government of a country or its people. i don’t think, at least i hope, most people in the u.s. actually identify with the government. the people are so diverse as to be meaningless in a general association.