Nacho Libre is a new film by Jack Black, coming to theatres June – but you can watch his video confessionals via his video podcast (requires iTunes) or an Internet exclusive trailer now.

It’s a great place, the blogosphere. Anyone with an opinion about anything can articulate it. And anyone does precisely that, including me.

Who’s to be believed about the 60% Windows Vista code rewrite story which has been a lively discussion topic in a number of blogs during the past few days?

Regular listeners to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast will be familiar with the lawsuit Curry filed against a Dutch tabloid concerning family photos Curry had posted to Flickr under a Creative Commons license.

Last night the Ask.com party named Code Red was full of interesting people and a few stormtroopers here and there.

Microsoft is starting beta testing of a Windows Live service code-named “Vegas”.

Jamie, you’ve done it again. You’ve caused me to spit Diet Coke all over my monitor.

An intrepid blogger delved deep into the JavaScript underpinning Google’s Gmail service, and found a snippet of code pointing to a potential feature.

A new search engine that debuted at Demo 2006 focuses on the needs of programmers to help find source code and other technical content.

A timely article in the travel section of today’s Times, entitled “There’s a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS,” (grab it before it rolls behind the registration wall) shows how travel company marketers are using RSS to supplement their existing email newsletter campaigns with RSS feeds.

In order to comply with a European antitrust ruling, Microsoft has agreed to license out its Windows source code.

General counsel Brad Smith announced in Brussels that Microsoft was going all in and calling the EU over their Statement of Objections issued in December 2005.

The Windows Management Instrumentation Code Creator tool lets system administrators automate the repetitive tasks that drain away valuable time from useful work they could otherwise perform.

Google Analytics expert, and good friend, Tim Seward, has launched the Unofficial Google Analytics blog.

TechCrunch reports that Toshiba has come up with an intriguing marriage of blogs and bar codes.

Java is a high level object oriented language. When we compile java code it first gets converted into highly efficient byte code by the java compiler.

The Summer of Code will spend the autumn and early winter in China, where Google will offer valuable prizes to Chinese participants who win the competition.

Learning to use valid html code is one of those website building techniques you decide to use. It is a big step requiring the use of validators, doctype declarations and often lots of extra work.

Microsoft’s Chief Blogger Robert Scoble pulled a anti-Google post from his blog yesterday. I’m reprinting it here (thanks to the Bloglines cache) for you to peruse…

This paper outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to lowering total cost of ownership and improving Web site and Web application performance according to two simple principles:

Putting aside all the recent rhetoric and controversy surrounding Web 2.0 companies, a few facts remain, one of which is this: the costs associated with starting and running a business today are significantly lower than they were a few years ago.