Beagle++ is a semantic extension to the Beagle search tool in GNOME. I have inspected some of the outputted source, and I'm not an instant convert, but it's a pretty cool idea. A GetSemantic project I'm working on to RDFize BibTeX will need to work a little bit harder to include this in our work. (Thanks to bigjb on #GetSemantic) 

Otu Ekanem has a write-up of last night's London XSL meetup. 

Taking MySpace to a galaxy far, far away 

So the US government and Vint Cerf want to take the Internet in to space. Gee whiz. What a tremendous waste of money.

Why, exactly, do we need an inter-planetary Internet again? I'm guessing that there are a whole load of Jupiterians out there who want to put their camera phone videos up on YouTube.

The idea that this is a military project is pretty ridiculous too. You know what would help the "boys and girls" (read: hired killers) in Iraq would be little things like body armour, not TCP/IP powered satellites.

The actual use case of "Internet in space" has not been properly fleshed out. I'm kidding about the YouTube thing (as you may have gathered), but what is the point of this?