] A few simple utilities can make it easier to figure out
] and maintain other people's code.
]
] This article presents a list of commands you should be
] able to find on any Linux installation. These are tools
] to help you improve your code and be more productive. The
] list comes from my own experience as a programmer and
] includes tools I've come to rely on repeatedly. Some
] tools help create code, some help debug code and some
] help reverse engineer code that's been dumped in your
] lap.

Ten Commands Every Linux Developer Should Know

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy.

Though state and federal officials insist safeguards are in place to protect the ballots from tampering, duplication or other forms of fraud, critics warn that e-mail is fundamentally insecure.

"E-mail is subject to all kinds of tampering," said Bruce Schneier, co-founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based Counterpane Internet Security Inc. "One of the problems with security is even the appearance of problems is bad."

E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns

Old school british anti software piracy ads. One encourages you to rat out your school teachers for cash.

These are awesome!

CLASSIC ANTI-PIRACY ADS

] A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer
] has enjoyed his first meal in nine years %u2014 a
] bratwurst sandwich %u2014 after surgeons grew a new jaw
] bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth
] in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.
]
] According to this week's issue of The Lancet medical
] journal, the German doctors used a mesh cage, a growth
] chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing
] stem cells, to create a new jaw bone that fit exactly
] into the gap left by the cancer surgery.
]
] Tests have not been done yet to verify whether the bone
] was created by the blank-slate stem cells and it is too
] early to tell whether the jaw will function normally in
] the long term. But the operation is the first published
] report of a whole bone being engineered and incubated
] inside a patient's body and transplanted.
]
] Stem cells are the master cells of the body that go on to
] become every tissue in the body. They are a hot area of
] research with scientists trying to find ways to prompt
] them to make desired tissues, and perhaps organs.

Unreal! -LB

Time for a sandwich: Doctors use man's back to make jaw

Oh, just one thing... she's a video game character.

Playboy 's undressed video game women

Freaky Singing Cats

Soluble Song by Joel and Alex Veitch rathergood.com

When coloring in 800,000 pixels on a map of India, Microsoft colored eight of them a different shade of green to represent the disputed Kashmiri territory. The difference in greens meant Kashmir was shown as non-Indian, and the product was promptly banned in India. Microsoft was left to recall all 200,000 copies of the offending Windows 95 operating system software to try and heal the diplomatic wounds. "It cost millions," Edwards said.
...
Microsoft has also managed to upset women and entire countries. A Spanish-language version of Windows XP, destined for Latin American markets, asked users to select their gender between "not specified," "male" or "bitch," because of an unfortunate error in translation.

Two Words Bill... Babel Fish.

Lost in Translation?

] Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26, a
] Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.
]
] First of all, the United States and Western Europe will
] suffer from the attack, Gostev was quoted by the agency
] as saying. The head of the labs, Yevgeny Kaspersky,
] reminded the audience that similar attacks had earlier
] paralyzed the Internet in South Korea. He added that it
] would be "impossible" to stop terrorist
] organizations if they "get down to business".

Well, I'm not too worried, but then again, I'll still have my television to keep me warm.

Russian Computer Expert Predicts Internet Terrorist Attack - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

This is a useful site.

Kmax : Blog Links for your blog links

] The IBM glass engine enables deep navigation of the music
] of Philip Glass. Personal interests, associations, and
] impulses guide the listener through an expanding
] selection of over sixty Glass works.

Remarkable. Allows you to listen to Glass pieces, sorted by all kinds of strange associations. Very interactive.

The IBM glass engine