Plus, generating hydrogen typically produces the very greenhouse gases fuel cell power is supposed to reduce or eliminate. Eventually, backers hope to produce "clean" hydrogen using water and electricity generated from the sun or wind. For now, natural gas remains the main source.

but the whole point is that WE'RE GETTING THERE!!!

Wide use of fuel cell technology is decades away, experts say

v1.0, but interesting nonetheless.

YourSQL by Magister Ludi - GUI front end for MySQL on OS X

The U.S. military has spent millions of dollars demonstrating that shared situational awareness improves combat effectiveness. If we apply the same ideas to intranets and to corporate use of the Internet, does better distribution of corporate information lead to shared awareness and increased business competitiveness?

Combat Power and Enterprise Competitiveness

] "Hackbot is a vulnerability scanner that started as a
] joke at first, but now it has become a serious project. Hackbot
] scans over 300 CGI's, scans for banners of several services,
] does unicode checks, checks for open relays, outsmarts Cisco
] PIX MailGuard, can do ripe checkup, spamcop db checkup,
] X connect test and lots more."

Of interest...

Hackbot

We preview nVidia’s latest 3D wunderkind and handicap the inevitable battle with ATI. World exclusive benchmarks! Brought to you by Maximum PC.

ATI vs NVidia. The battle continues

How do modern microprocessors work? A great article for the geek inside of you.

Ars Technica: Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar Execution - Page 1 - (12/2002)

IMHO, Site Meter is *the* best webcounter service out there right now. It's free, easy to use, stable, and provides a wealth of information on visitors. Since my site got listed in Schneier's "Crypto-Gram" newsletter yesterday, I've been using sitemeter to see who's visiting my site, from where, and what they clicked on to get to my site. All as a free service. It's awesome. :)

BTW, I've gotten over 2000 unique visitors to http://elonka.com/steganography since yesterday. Whee!

Site Meter - Counter and Statistics Tracker

IT MAKES YOU wonder: with all the fat cables running into our homes—and the fat checks we write to pay for them—why isn’t it possible to just hit a button on the remote and instantly call up a film? The cable industry thinks it has the answer in a new technology called video on demand.

yeah... new.

Couch Potato Heaven

Will the price of international telephone calls continue to decline? And will more people choose wireless technology over land lines? The answers lie in whether new technologies continue to rival existing ones in the coming year.

This is an interesting article with some great facts in it (like how it took 100 years for the telephone to eclipse the telegraph). But the ultimate theme is that telecom will eat itself.

Web Calling Roils the Telecom World

General Motors Chairman Richard Wagoner and Jeremy Rifkin make strange allies. Wagoner, a captain of industry, and Rifkin, an activist who has predicted that capitalism's best days are far behind it, agree that hydrogen could end up becoming the dominant way of powering vehicles and perhaps the economy.

I still think that the automotive industry will not be the ultimate catalyst for this technology, that it will be the home consumer.

Fuel Cells Starting to Gain Steam