Blog chat was hoppin' last night. Some of us decided that we'd like to do it weekly instead of biweekly, so show up Wednesdays if you're in the mood.

I'd like to throw thanks to stef who helped touch up a photo I'm using for my new web site last night. The web site should be up in a couple of days, I'll be sure to announce it.

The good news: Cocoa may help fight cholesterol! The bad news: It's only cocoa extract, not fatty sugary chocolate. Oh, and the study was sponsored by the Mars candy company, just in time for Easter.

Reuters would also like to remind us that chocolate is bad for dogs.

The Official Joe Cocker Web Site.

Fun attraction/repulsion applet! I'm really not a math/physics geek, but I'm enough of one to love this kind of thing. (Thanks boingboing.)

Wouldn't Napster be in big trouble if they complied with this request? I'm under the impression that this would institute an editorial policy, bringing up all those issues that Napster is trying to avoid about being responsible for the content their users are trading. IANAL, and sometimes I wish I were. (Not that the issues surrounding Napster are important to my life or anything...)

Bookmark dumping ground:

• I forgot to mention it yesterday: WinFrotz, a Z-Code (Infocom/Inform game file) interpreter for text adventure games.
• Palm Computing Development Zone, including PalmOS SDK 3.0.
• GCC Home Page at GNU.org.
• GNU C++ for Windows (32-bit).
• GNU Win32-related projects.
• Michael P. Welch's Game Development Page, home of DXBall 2 and Scorched Tanks!
• MSDN Online.
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, complete book text.
• PNG source code.
• sourceXchange.
• Programmer of the Month contest home page (did I do this one already?).
• The Programmer's Stone, part of The Reciprocality Project.
• XML-RSS Perl library.
• W3C XML and RDF Perl modules.