] WHIRLPOOL is a hash function designed by Vincent
] Rijmen and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto that operates on
] messages less than 2256 bits in length, and produces a
] message digest of 512 bits.

Sort-of like CBC-MAC with AES except its just a hash, not a MAC.

The Whirlpool Hash Function

] NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton (news
] - web sites) was admitted to a top New York hospital on
] Friday for heart bypass surgery after experiencing chest
] pains and shortness of breath.

Bill Clinton to Have Heart Surgery in New York

] The grand city of Philadelphia unveiled today an
] ambitious plan to coat the city with Wi-Fi, using a mix
] of public and private funds to provide the service.

!!!

Philly goes Wi-Fi crazy | The Register

] US video game makers Acclaim has filed for bankruptcy
] after struggling to keep up sales in an increasingly
] competitive games market for some time.

Games makers Acclaim ceases ops

] The question of whether and how sender identification is
] beneficial to the fight against spam is the subject of a
] paper I presented at the recent Conference on Email and
] Anti-Spam. If that question interests you, you can find
] the paper at the following address.

This paper is in the comments at the bottom of the article.

Sender ID: A Tale of Open Standards and Corporate Greed? - Part I

Pikmin 2 came out today and seems to be sales rank 6 on amazon.com
right now.

Penny Arcade on Pikmin 2

] There is a risk that patents will strangle the life out
] of software innovation. While IBM, the biggest holder of
] IT patents, is holding back on obtaining more, Microsoft
] is making aggressive threats about patenting its
] developments. Yet the value of patents is doubtful at the
] best of times.

Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation - silicon.com

]
] SCO's 3rd quarter teleconference is eye-opening.
] Participants were Darl McBride and CFO Bert Young. They
] are having to do some belt-tightening, poor things. They
] have been bleeding money to their lawyers. $7.3 million
] in the last quarter alone. And SCOSource is not bringing
] in anything like what they are spending to try to get
] income from it.

Groklaw on the conference call.

SCO Downsizing, Worries About Hostile Takeover, Caps Legal Fees

] Many believe that patents pose a large threat to Free /
] Open Source Software. Although this may be true, Free
] Software is no more concerned about, and actually might
] be less concerned about, software patents than most other
] software developers.

Why Free/Open Source Software Might Have Less to Fear than Non-Free Software

] Picking on SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOX) is really too easy.
] Unfortunately, it's also necessary, if only as an ongoing
] cautionary tale for Foolish investors. This is a business
] with decent possibilities in the form of its high-margin
] UNIX business. But bad leadership insists on sticking to
] a monstrous, bungling, money-burning plan to litigate its
] way to bigger riches.

SCO's 3Q numbers are out and they're continuing to bleed.

SCO Slides Again