Pick of the week: Under the all-seeing eye

Here's this week's highlights, with Vista again in the crosshairs and what a constabular street stop might look like if we all had to carry ID cards.

RE: Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
blog comment Welshtroll can’t think of anything worse than being roped into a test by Microsoft to evaluate its new OS.

IDEAS - Identify, Engage & Assessment Statement
Talkback The latest in the debate between thinkfeeldo and Andrew Meredith on the worth and viability of ID cards.

meebo - Browser based multi-system IM chat
blog J. A. Watson takes a look at Meebo, a browser-based IM chat program that works with AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk and MSN.

Is this the future for legal P2P?
blog A major ISP has come up with a twist on dealing with people who download music--but there's a big catch, David Meyer says.

Mitigating the fallout
Talkback Sun's Web services architect Gerald Beuchelt responds to our report of a DNS-related risk to the company's OpenID service.

Get your Shoes on and go dance with code
blog Rupert Goodwins taps his feet to a tool you can download and use to write an application before breakfast.