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29 Sep 2001 Welcome to CounterPunch : Backlash and Backtrack Read this one.
[ 29-Sep-01 3:00am ] 28 Sep 2001 As if to show that anything The Onion can do, other sucky sites can do better, four new satirical sites pop there heads over the parapet and into the harsh radar beam of our sense of humour.
[ 28-Sep-01 8:36pm ] There are lots of spiders in the garden right now. So here's a link to attempts to understand how they spin and the structure of the silk. : The Biology of ... Spider Silk
[ 28-Sep-01 6:37pm ] BBC News | Net freedom fears 'hurt terror fight' : UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says "naive" campaigners against stronger internet surveillance laws have hurt the anti-terror fight. . Beware. Unscrupulous, control freak politicians will attempt to use the WTC atrocity to force through increased surveillance. They are dusting off every measure that was blocked or shown to be unworkable over the last 10 years and trying to rush it through under the "Anti-Terrorism" label. But if it was inadequate or inappropriate then, why is it essential now? And all this on the day that the UK authorities admitted that they have no records of who has left the country and no computerised records of who has entered the country. and let's not forget that the current and old Anti-Terrorism bill already gives the government wide powers of data collection. Bills like R.I.P. simply extend these powers to times of non-emergency. The fact is that the security services failed to even use the powers they already had effectively. Granting them more powers now would not change that.
[ 28-Sep-01 5:57pm ] Seen on Slashdot. "Msft is definitely guilty of contributing to global worming. They need to cut back their toxic emissions immediately before it's too late to save the planet".
 [ 28-Sep-01 5:37pm ] SiliconValley.com - Dan Gillmor's eJournal : Journalism 3.0 - "We need to recognize what Farber and the webloggers implictly grasp -- that our readers, listeners and viewers collectively know more, vastly more, than we do."
27 Sep 2001 Scobleizer : Does your intranet suck? : Here's how to rate if your intranet sucks
[ 27-Sep-01 9:06pm ] BOMB THEM WITH BUTTER! And chuck in a hand cranked radio as well.
[ 27-Sep-01 8:39pm ] From the "Blogging the past desk. Wired 2.10: Meme, Counter-meme : and memetic engineering Oct 1994!!
[ 27-Sep-01 8:24pm ] What is Frieda & Guido's Interactive Underwear ® ??
[ 27-Sep-01 7:12am ] 26 Sep 2001 In Defense of Freedom : On September 20, 2001 at the National Press Club in Washington, more than 150 organizations, 300 law professors, and 40 computer scientists expressed support for the following declaration: IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM oh yes Indeedy. Just shame they didn't say "World" instead of "United States".
[ 26-Sep-01 7:02pm ] The Register : The missing piece from the MS internal memo to it's salespersons about Gartner's recommendation to ditch IIS. It's a list of vulnerabilities in rival products So clearly, Apache/PHP/MySQL is a major threat to MS' world domination. Oh and old software releases have bugs in them, but I guess you knew that. As someone said, "The MS IIS patch rate is approaching 1 per day, which is simply unacceptable". Just say no to MS servers (and email clients). You know it makes sense.
[ 26-Sep-01 6:45pm ] NIMDA - Closes down Fairfax - Fairfax County has fallen victim to the worst computer virus in its history, forcing it to shut down its Web site until each of the county's 9,000 computers and 300 servers has been screened. [Lockergnome Bytes] I wonder if there's a case for demanding that government offices ban Microsoft operating systems from their offices on the grounds of national security.
[ 26-Sep-01 5:01pm ] I've been moping around for two weeks now convinced that Irony, Sarcasm and even Humour were dead. How was I going to cope? How could I get through the day without at least one cyncial remark? Where was the grim humour and the "Need Another Seven Astronauts" jokes when we needed them? Neet To Know and The Chaser tried hard but didn't quite hit the spot. I'm sure you've seen it by now as it's ripping to the top of the Blogdex charts, but The Onion have excelled themselves. The best piece of satire is surely the report on God's press conference. You need to imagine James Garner's voice reading it in a tone of grandmotherly exasperation. What part of "Thou shalt not kill", don't you get, Man? Could I have made it any clearer?
[ 26-Sep-01 4:28pm ] Plastic | A Town in Georgia has started posting the ten commandments in public buildings. : and an empty frame 'for those who believe in nothing.'. For years, I've been a Pope (infallible, right?) in the Church of Eris (Goddess left us a chaotic mess and it's our job to cope with it) but becoming a minister in the First Church of the Empty Frame sounds like a great idea.
[ 26-Sep-01 4:17pm ] 25 Sep 2001 The Blog Twinning Project : bringing people together, whether they like it or not Luvly!
[ 25-Sep-01 4:07pm ] Microsoft advertises in bad taste? - n/a [Geeknews] Unbelievably bad taste advert with two twoer blocks leaning as if they're falling down. Hello!?!
The Register : Ditch Microsoft IIS now, says Gartner Gosh! Does this mean that .asp will be ported to an Apache Module?
[ 25-Sep-01 8:11am ] Slashdot | Philip Zimmermann and 'Guilt' Over PGP : We who live in the D.C. area are very familiar with the Post's penchant for "manufacturing" stories where none exist. Mr. Zimmerman unfortunately was the party on the receiving end of the editorial foul play in this particular case. Iif you caught the reports and links to the Washington Post article that Phil regretted releasing PGP into the wild, you need to read his repost on /. Remember. Use encryption while you can.
[ 25-Sep-01 7:14am ] 24 Sep 2001 The Cause of Terrorism : Belief causes terrorism. There you have it put to its shortest form. A most interesting article written entirely in e-Prime. I wish a few more people would understand e-Prime and make use of it. It's a most useful tool.
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