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Songs with Questionable Lyrics : I'm kind of disappointed they didn't ban Blue Oyster Cult's "Cities on Flame". Oh well, showing my age again.


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"Afghan Kebab House II" Great little story found on Blogdex about eating a meal in an empty Afghani restaurant in the USA. So when you take a programmer to lunch, go to a middle eastern restaurant. The food's good and they'll appreciate the business.

CW360° - Article Page : The dangers of P2P networks A security Xspurt speaks. Yup. Those guys in marketing are stealing all your bandwidth with Gnutella. And the COO just gave all the company's secrets away in an ICQ session. And the Sysadmin just got fired for running the SETI project on all the servers. Oh my. This stuff is dangerous.




MS Win, IE5, ActiveX enabled? Go here now.

Quantum variations in the randomness of random number generators as a means of predicting and monitoring world consciousness. An analysis of results around Black Tuesday.

The Register : The IT industry has done a poor job in projecting its Web servers from the effects of the Nimda worm. That's the conclusion we draw from evidence that Web sites belonging to Dell, Microsoft, NTL and corporate ISP C&W INS all show tell-tale traces of Nimda infection. Well there you go. How ironic that this story is almost an exact mirror of one around the time of Code Red II.

Blogdex now has 12000 blogs it's tracking, and Paul Nakada has an RSS feed of the top 25 most linked URLs. He's also done an IE and Netscape sidebar displaying them. Nice!

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index! This is what we need. An online resource of cartoons from around the world. That's it. Get irony back in your life. You know it'll make you feel better.


blogdex : top 10 recent links Blogdex is an MIT project to spider blog sites and count links. It then ranks the links according to how often bloggers link to them. This is generating a running guide to what bloggers are finding interesting. I feel sure that there is some overlap between this work and RSS headline feeds. Just not completely sure what it is yet.

There are increasing calls to outlaw encryption, build US Gummint approved security into computer hardware and stamp down on free speech that discusses it. But the genie is out of the bottle and you can't legislate it out of existence, only turn legitimate users into criminals. Well I have this to say to you.

F*** Censorship:- When encryption is outlawed, only the OUHSD KLJASN BVQWO UYDDN BQWAZ.





Do you know anyone running WinNT or Win2000 on an internet connected machine? Have they turned off IIS? Have they applied the recent security patches? Have they got a clue?

The recent spate of Internet worms (Code Red, Code Red II, Code Rainbow) are all attacks on MS IIS. The problem is that there are so many of them that the rest of us suffer as well.

SILICON DEFENSE - Flash Worm Analysis : Flash Worms: Thirty Seconds to Infect the Internet The Warhol Worm. It's merely idle speculation. But as "Rainbow" Worm hits the net maybe not. The Slashdot folks are tracking it here.




The Flame to End All Flames When some email or Usenet post makes you want to scream, try this.

The Times : Where war is a way of life BY NICK DANZIGER
Returning from Afghanistan, the author, who has travelled before with its warlords, says that before taking action there, the West should remember what an unforgiving place it is
Worth reading.

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Shared Voice.org : Another petition. Well put.

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