] TOKYO (AP) -- After decades of evading the public eye and
] U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby
] Fischer -- possibly the best and certainly the most
] eccentric chess player ever -- has been taken into
] custody by Japanese immigration after allegedly trying to
] leave the country with an invalid passport.

Search for Former Chess Champion Ends at Tokyo Airport

]
] On 15 September 2003, VeriSign, Inc. changed the way that
] NET and COM registries responded to lookups on
] nonexistent -- or uninstantiated -- domain names. In so
] doing, the company changed the way that the domain name
] system (DNS), a fundamental component of the Internet
] architecture, provides services for two large top-level
] domains. VeriSign's action was aimed at the World Wide
] Web but had unexpected effects on the other parts of the
] Internet.

The Site Finder Report: Dr. Stephen Crocker, Chair of the Committee

] Linux is in and an aging version of Microsoft's
] enterprise Windows operating system is out after the
] French Ministry of Equipment decided to replace 1,500
] Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers.

Mandrake Replaces NT in France

] Oprah's Book Club may help sell millions of books to
] Americans, and slam poetry may have engendered a youthful
] new breed of wordsmith, but the nation is still caught in
] a tide of indifference when it comes to literature. That
] is the sobering profile of a new survey to be released
] today by the National Endowment for the Arts, which
] describes a precipitous downward trend in book
] consumption by Americans and a particular decline in the
] reading of fiction, poetry and drama.

!!

Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds

For a laugh, 'telnet romulus.cometway.com 25' and give it an EHLO

] Inventors usually try to come up with things that will
] change people's lives. But Robert Barrows is hoping to
] make an impact after their death. He is patenting
] video-equipped tombstones to let cemetery visitors watch
] messages from the dead.

High-tech messages from the grave

] Dedicated to making a safer world, NOCIRC is a 501(c)(3)
] educational non-profit organization committed to securing
] the birthright of male, female, and intersex children and
] babies to keep their sex organs intact.

In response to the SmartKlamp meme...

NOCIRC National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers

Gentoo is silly.

Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here.

] This Act may be cited as the `Controlling the
] Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of
] 2003', or the `CAN-SPAM Act of 2003'.

I'm not sure if this was blogged here before. In addition
to prohibiting sending SPAM, it also expressly (sec 6) prohibits
you from promoting your business via spam, i.e. if you hire
spammers, you're also in violation of the act. This seems like
it could be a more fruitful avenue of enforcement -- prosecute
the end-users of the "spam service" rather than the spammers
themselves.

CAN-SPAM Act Text

]
] Recently, the news that China is adopting IPv9 is making
] rounds on the Internet. While some of them write off as
] an April Fool's joke (in July?) like RFC 1606, others
] wonder if there is more than meets the eye. But most of
] them wonder what this IPv9 is and how does it actually
] work. And some of the English translated articles are so
] badly done that it is impossible to get any useful
] technical information except that 'It is developed and
] supported by Chinese government!'

Explaining China's IPv9