Silly Salon story: “It’s the American dream all over again — Pet Chips are the new Pet Rocks.” A Texas entrepreneur claims to have sold nearly 7000 of the things so far.

I recently stumbled upon the awsome mp3 player Thinkgeek offers.
I noticed a link saying ‘download Linux source’ and was puzzled when, after I followed this link I ended up at Compaq’s website, where I had to agree to a Compaq Intellectual Property license before I could download the source code. What happened to the GPL license Linux comes with? Is it possible to remove the GPL after modifying the Linux source tree? If so, what good is a GPL license? –BOFH_org

Slightly tongue-in-cheek Upside story about telcos vs. cable companies, the difficulties of dealing with them, and the irony that can result when you have installers from both in your house at the same time.

OpenNMS Update for September 12 talks about travel, geekness, databases, status of currnet OpenNMS coding projects, and… baby steps.

MSNBC story. Summary: “U.S. regulators are set to embark
Thursday on what is likely to be a heated and protracted debate
over what federal regulations should govern high-speed
Internet access over cable television systems.”

Short ZDNN piece says, “Teens spend just half the time online that adults do,
according to a new study by Jupiter Communications.
The study, which analyzed recent numbers from Media
Metrix, said teens are too busy with school and
after-school activities to spend all their spare time online.
Plus, they often have to share their computers with other
family members. Full story to follow.”

The top headline of the latest Debian Weekly News is… KDE. Quote: “All of the core of KDE is already present in unstable, and more packages are sure to follow.”

Interesting commentary at 32bitsonline about mistakes AMD has made in the design, production, and marketing of their high-end Athlons.

According to BSDToday, Livin’ on the Edge, an internet service provider in Japan, says its board of directors
“has unanimously voted to invest five million US dollars in Berkeley Software Design, Inc.”.

A software company representative named Bill Gates is quoted by nwfusion.com as having doubts about whether industry-backed WAP is as good a standard for handheld Internet access as Microsoft-backed XML. Gates mentions a desire to “embrace” WAP, but the word “extend” is not mentioned — at least in this story.