Noam Chomsky: The New War on Terror : We certainly want to reduce the level of terror, certainly not escalate it. There is one easy way to do that and therefore it is never discussed. Namely stop participating in it. That would automatically reduce the level of terror enormously. But that you can't discuss. Well we ought to make it possible to discuss it. So that's one easy way to reduce the level of terror. You may not agree with Chomsky and what he stands for but he is very good at making his case.

Ethical media are doing some really neat stuff

What is Cybiko! Is it really really cool, or is it the pits?

possibly apocryphal Muhammad Ali visited the ruins of the World Trade Center on Thursday. When reporters asked how he felt about the suspects sharing his Islamic faith, Ali responded pleasantly, "How do you feel about Hitler sharing yours?" [bOing bOing]

Salmon Days. At last the BOFH[1] gets his own TV show.
[1]Bastard Operator From Hell. Your favourite corporate IT Support person.

Internet Archive : the Internet Archive's comprehensive library of the Web's digital past comprises 100 terabytes of data and is growing at a rate of 10 terabytes per month, eclipsing the amount of data contained in every library in the world including the Library of Congress, and making it the largest known database in existence. It goes back to 1996 and is aiming to archive the web. All of it. But probably without pictures.

Mail Sterilizer Unbelievable. An industrial strength steam-heat sterilization system for your mail room. Protects against all known biological weapons.

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Webservices.org : OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Develop Web Services Component Model for Interactive Web Applications. I'm going to have to think a bit to get my head round this one. Exposing an interactive web service in a standard way so that local client applications can build a native UI to it on the fly. Um, what?

Cool! I just got a piece published on Content Wire about the Syndic8 Project.

CNN.com - Northwest pulls sweeteners from flights - October 19, 2001 Jeez! Why don't they just make white powder illegal. Maybe, if we coloured all legal white powder we'd be able to spot the dangerous stuff? There's been rumours of tainted heroin but that's ok because it only hits the underclass. But what if cocaine supplies started getting tainted? Has cocaine use fallen off among the moneyed classes? Would you put some white powder, from an untrusted source, up your nose?

Salon.com Technology | Candy from strangers Webcam teenage girls post a shopping list on the site and have their "admirers" anonymously buy them stuff. Question. Would you let your 15 year old daughter do this? Would you buy me a WiFi card for my laptop, if I showed you some skin? Hmmm? Maybe not.

One of the mailing lists I moderate on Yahoogroups is getting hit by spam to a ridiculous extent. What appears to be happening is that there's a program out there which subscribes to the group and then if successful starts sending spam to the group. I've made subscription moderated and chucked off the members that were spamming, but now I'm getting 10-15 subscription requests a day. This is ridiculous! The group is effectively now a closed group of the current members as I can't distinguish between real new members and yet more spammers. I really don't know how to get out of this cycle. I think it's going to take a change to the Yahoogroups interface to make it similar to Mailman where a potential subscriber has to respond from the same email address. But it's then only a matter of time before some spam program works round that one as well.

What I don't understand is why this one group has been singled out. Other groups I moderate and belong to aren't yet affected. If this spreads, Yahoogroups is going to become unuseable.

Today's funny. You can run but you can't hide.

Constructor Got a few minutes to play with animated stick models?

What is Attack Of The Giant Pasty Man?

Photoshop Tennis Too Cool!

Sample of Larry Ellison's new National ID Card : Ancestry: DNA is 61% Semitic

Steady Upward Market : Yes A wonderful mix of Situationist theatre and Radical activism. The Yes Men specialize in undercover ops in corporate environments. Their latest piece was a powerpoint lecture to a group of PhDs on outsourcing labour to the 3rd world in the guise of a delegation from the WTO.

Technology Review - Teens Peer Ahead : Cybiko Inter-Tainment Computers that let teens meet, engage one another in multi-player games and blip instant messages back and forth over the 900-megahertz radio band $100 for About the size and shape of a walkie-talkie, each Cybiko comes in one of four hot colors. a black-and-white LCD screen, full keyboard, navigation buttons and a megabyte of memory for starters. Cybikos also happen to be full-featured personal digital assistants with the usual trimmings: personal information management software, a scientific calculator, spell checker, photo viewer and MP3 player. Awesome!