September 2003

Layout-o-matic creates custom CSS layouts with a simple online form.

Magnatune offers "try before you buy" MP3 music. "If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use."

"Fantagraphics has announced that it will be publishing the complete Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz."

"George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed largest… But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did not mark a shift for him. Throughout his campaign for the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools of his presidency."

DesktopLinux interviews Tom Adelstein, a Linux consultant working to push the operating system towards "critical mass" on state government desktops.

I've recently become interested in building a barebones PC to replace my aging HP Pavilion. I found the following resources useful—and you might, as well:

• Build Your Own Mini-PC For The Office
• Lockergnomes Forums: Barebones System
• PC vs Console: Good place to custom build a computer?
• ExpertsExchange: Building a barebones system
• Acme.com: Build a PC
• Ars Technica System Guide

• Epinions.com: How to Build Your Own Computer From Scratch

Here's a nifty list of comics feeds for your RSS reader.

Capcom will produce a Playstation 2 game based upon the Tim Burton movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Delivery is scheduled for October 2004. Etoychest has a screen shot of the game.

DNS Report can help webmasters detect and repair problems with the Domain Name System and mail servers for their websites.

Got a pet? Got no petsitter? Got $500? Get the iSeePet, and feed your beloved Spot or Fluffy via the Internet!

Eric Idle's Greedy Bastard Tour may be coming to a city near you.

HTTP File Server does one thing, and does it well: It provides a simple web-based interface that allows others to download selected files from your PC.

Process Explorer runs on most flavors of Windows, and provides in-depth information about the activities of the processes running under the hood.

Excuse me, but can you tell me how to get to Mordor?

"Misleader.org will provide an accurate daily chronicle for journalists of mis-representations, distortions and downright misleading statements by President Bush and the Bush Administration."