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Monday, April 15, 2002

A Top-Secret, One-of-a-Kind Mac. A private computer museum in an old barn may have the rarest Mac ever: an apparently unique computer evidently made for a spy or military agency. It's so secret, no one knows anything about it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
11:46:59 PM

How to Fix the Dot-Government. The first-ever CTO of the Office of Management and Budget views the 22,000 dot-gov websites as 'islands of automation' and believes out-sourcing and private-sector management are good ideas. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
11:45:26 PM

A Word Map for Wonderland? Curiouser and Curiouser. A new Web site turns literary classics into interactive maps in which the relationships between words are explored. By Matthew Mirapaul. [New York Times: Technology]
11:43:08 PM

Has Grammar Lost Its Technological Edge?. Bruce Wampler, one of the pioneers of grammar-checking technology, says grammar checking has become one of the casualties of Microsoft's PC monopoly. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
11:42:50 PM

Intel cuts prices to pave way for new chips. The company slashes prices on Pentium 4 and Pentium III chips for desktops and on several low-voltage mobile chips. Not to be outdone, AMD cuts prices too. [CNET News.com]
11:41:58 PM

Sendmail nabs funding, expands. The company, which sells proprietary enhancements to the open-source e-mail software of the same name, secures $14 million in funding and expands into calendar software. [CNET News.com]
11:39:35 PM

Linux in Education Report #68:"April 15, 2002--One of the regularly recurring discussions in any technology in education discussion forum surfaced again on the schoolforge-discuss mailing list recently: the need for better gradebook software. Three years ago there was a noticeable lack of such software for Linux and other open source operating systems, but now there are a number of options. However, for one reason or another none of them seem to be getting much use. It seems that gradebook programs are easy to write, but unless they can transfer information into/out of other administrative software programs (for attendance, discipline, scheduling, etc.) they're not very useful."
11:38:48 PM