31.3.05

Oh, and one more thing ...

I think we should have our ambassador ask a "When will the occupation end?" question every year on March 10 (People's Uprising Day).

Rape, torture and lies

So when will our decisive leader Mr Martin do something about our friends in Iran?

26.3.05

TextDrive: specs

Spexy hosting. And cheap to. Who knows how reliable they are.

22.3.05

Uncyclopedia

Mad props to Kirsten for finding the Uncyclopedia

20.3.05

An Opinionated Network

Fox News: We decide, you agree.

The Observer | Magazine | On a wing and a prayer

Heads up on the lathality of an air-borne contagious avian flu variant.

More Flash UI stuff

Google Newsmap

Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web

Yahoo!'s take on 10x10. Props to Kirsten.

Danger, Will Robinson

Chill from Toronto web libel suit
Orin Hatch's New Job: Senate IP Czar

BTW, without a bunch of little boxes to click to fill in my category tags, it just becomes a complete drag.

Bruce Sterling on fake Nikes

The Sham Economy: Where the criminal underground beats aboveboard capitalism.

Off-the-Record Messaging

Off-the-Record Messagingallows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
Authentication
You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
Deniability
The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came from you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
Perfect forward secrecy
If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation is compromised.

8.3.05

COSMOLOGY at Scientific American.com: Misconceptions about the Big Bang

Not much point in archiving this as they tend to move things behyind a subscriber-only screen, so read it now.

Baffled by the expansion of the universe? You're not alone. Even astronomers frequently get it wrong
By Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis

Hee hee

Type "Bush's Foreign Friends" into Google (with the quotes) and hit "I'm feeling Lucky"
- mad props to Candis

EC OKs software patents | The Register

Carlo - read the title a few pixels north of here.
Damn! and blast it all.