Longhorn Developer Center is now live.

There is now an Aeron wheelchair.

Fox News Threatened to Sue The Simpsons over their parody of the cable news channel.

Enterprise Charter School in Buffalo, New York has started using radio frequency ID tags to scan their students. If this had happened to me while I was in school I would have invented a way around it so it should be interesting to see how it all turns out. “”” The charter school’s 422 students wear small plastic cards around their necks that have their photograph, name and grade printed on them, and include an embedded RFID chip. As the children enter the school, they approach a kiosk where a reader activates the chip’s signal and displays their photograph. The students touch their picture, and the time of their entry into the building is recorded in a database. A school staffer oversees the check-in process. “””

Bill Thompson of BBC News writes about flyblogging: spamming weblog comments.

Ask Yahoo! : How do I start my own blog?

Google considers online IPO auction “Google executives, led by George Reyes, chief financial officer, met a number of leading investment bankers last week to sound them out about an IPO. The meetings marked the start of a process that is likely to lead to a stock market listing by about March next year, a person familiar with the IPO said.”

Check out the HP Tablet PC on the table in front of George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on October 21. Bankok Post has a full story on the HP sponsorship of the event and the special voting software provided by Microsoft.

Amazon.com has a new service allowing you to search the full text of over 120,000 books!