] Michelangelo was the first virus to draw serious media
] attention, in March 1992. One reason for this was its
] destructive payload [on 6 March, the anniversary of
] Michelangelo's birth, it destroyed data on the victim's
] hard disk]. Another was the 'doom and gloom' predictions
] circulating at the time about the virus. One US
] anti-virus company went so far as to predict that data on
] five million PCs would be destroyed. As it turned out,
] less than 10,000 PCs lost data as a result of
] Michelangelo.

Viruslist.com - Analyst's Diary

] On the other hand, say you%u2019ve already established
] something of an online identity, perhaps through your own
] web site, or as a frequent commenter at this or some
] other blog(s). What prevents someone else from coming
] along and posting a comment here, leaving your name and
] your website%u2019s URL to identify himself? Put another
] way, how can readers determine the authenticity of
] comments left here?

This is a nice proposal for those of us who actually use PGP

PGP-Signed Comments | Musings

] Life expectancy is 77.6 years, says the CDC, using
] numbers from 2003. That's an all-time high, up slightly
] from 77.3 years in 2002.

U.S. Life Expectancy Best Ever, Says CDC

] Now you can commemorate this ignoble episode in
] intellectual property history with the Unauthorized iPod
] U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition. From its packaging to
] its pre-installed content, this unauthorized iPod
] modification is an artful mash-up of the forces of
] corporate megarock and obscure experimental music, and a
] provocative symbol of the ongoing struggle between those
] who would confine culture and those who would free it.

The Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition

] The man highly regarded as the father of the
] revolutionary Macintosh computer passed away on Friday
] peacefully. Jef Raskin was Apple's #31 employee who
] was a professor by education but turned consultant. He
] wrote the Apple II's BASIC manual in 1976 and later
] joined the same company 2 years later. Some years later,
] he envisioned the Macintosh computer as a departure from
] computers of those days.

Tech News and Views � Father of the Macintosh, Jef Raskin passes away :: Technology related information

] To find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near
] you, type "movies" or the name of a current film into the
] Google search box. If you've already saved your location
] by using Google Local, the top search result will link to
] showtimes for nearby theaters for the movie you've
] chosen. If you haven't saved your location, simply enter
] your city or zip code in the field next to the top
] result. You can also include your location in your
] search.
]
] For a complete list of the movies, theatres and showtimes
] near you, use the "movie:" operator followed by your
] location.
]
] Can't remember a movie title, or just looking for
] something new to see? You can use the "movie:" operator
] to search for films related to a specific actor, director
] or plot detail.
]
] Want to read about the movies you find? Your search
] results for any film will include an average rating out
] of 5 stars and several snippets from online reviews,
] along with links to the reviews themselves. Click the
] "reviews" link to the left of any title for a complete
] list of online reviews of this film.

Maybe Netflix + Google Movies might have a chance against Amazon + IMDB. Not really, but it is a thought

Google Help : Search Features

] Internet marketing firm Marchex Inc. has finalized a deal
] to pay a whopping $164.2 million for Name Development
] Ltd., which displays keyword advertising across a
] portfolio of more than 100,000 domains. The deal, along
] with the recent sale of a misspelled domain name for
] $112,000, offers evidence that mistyped URLs and other
] "accidental traffic" have become big business.

Netcraft: Search-Optimized Domain Portfolio Sells for $164 Million

] Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life
] as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety
] and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all
] men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it
] another word for rut?

Security by Hunter S. Thompson

] Gordon McIntosh, manager of the Common Criteria Testing
] Laboratory of atsec, commented thus: "No other commercial
] operating system has had security being scrutinized and
] tested regularly on such a large number of hardware
] platforms like Linux."

"Bite us, OpenBSD"

heise online - First security evaluation in compliance with Common Criteria EAL4 for Suse Linux

] Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who
] popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear
] and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday
] night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

Yahoo! News - Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself