] SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp. said on
] Friday that its latest version of Office software
] inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas,
] and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the
] offending characters from the program.

Microsoft to cut swastikas from software

] NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- In less time than it took a
] North Brunswick patrolman to write a ticket for an
] unregistered vehicle, the driver got his car registered
] online Thursday.

Motorist registers during traffic stop

In case anyone's interested, here's the blackout report, in pdf. It can also be found on reports.energy.gov but it's slow and unreadable, really. Canada has a better grip on things. Same report though. It's a very interesting read.

The August 14, 2003 Blackout Report

] A lovesick hacker brought chaos to America's busiest
] seaport after launching a computer attack on an internet
] chatroom user who had made anti-American comments,
] a court heard yesterday.

] "The defendant's girlfriend was an American called
] Jessica. The defendant was deeply in love with her - in
] fact somewhat obsessed with her. He named his computer
] after her and he dedicated parts of the attack script to
] her rather like the way some adolescents draw graffiti
] on walls with 'I love so-and-so'. This defendant managed
] to weave into the script a sentence about his girlfriend
] Jessica."

*blush*

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Hacker attack left port in chaos

] A Canadian teenager has launched legal action against
] classmates who put a video of him online, saying that the
] publicity has left him mentally scarred.
]
] Ghyslain Raza became known as the "Star Wars Kid" after a
] video of him using a golf ball retriever to emulate the
] light sabre slinging tricks of Darth Maul was posted on
] the net.

I was wondering when that was going to happen.

Star Wars video prompts lawsuit

] o the naked eye, it looks like a fleck of tile decorated
] with the Greek letters alpha and omega. But when it is
] magnified by a factor of 600, its true nature becomes
] evident %u2014 the world's most portable copy of the New
] Testament. According to the latest version of Guinness
] Book of World Records, the five-millimeter-square tablet
] is the smallest reproduction yet of a printed book.

VERY cool... I want to see pictures of it magnified.

In Gold Ink on a Chip, the World's Tiniest Book

Rattle wrote:
] jessica wrote:
] ] Rattle wrote:
] ] ] Lbh ner fb frkl jura lbh'er genafyngvat EBG13.
] ]
] ] Now you're just making stuff up...
]
] V'z abg znxvat nalguvat hc.. Cuoggg. Lbh whfg ybfg frkl
] cbvagf.

V arire ybfr frkl cbvagf... zl frkvarff vf creznarag.

RE: When Crypto Is Outlawed...

Elonka wrote:
] Mindraker2 wrote:
] ] Elonka wrote:
] ] ] "When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir
] ] ] cevinpl."
] ]
] ] "When cryptography is outlawed only outlaws will have
] cryptography"
]
] Oooh, *so* close, but no cigar. Try again! It's a real
] cipher that can be translated.

"When cryptography is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy"

w00t w00t

-Jessica

RE: When Crypto Is Outlawed...

] However, there have also been a number of people who
] claim I'm overstating the case and that it's not possible
] to build a real cruise missile without access to
] sophisticated gear, specialist tools and information not
] readily available outside the military.
]
] So, in order to prove my case, I decided to put my money
] where my mouth is and build a cruise missile in my own
] garage, on a budget of just US$5,000.

I can see my boyfriend doing something like this.

Fux0ring 3133t Cruise Missile d00d3s

I remember this was linked a few months ago, but I just got it over e-mail at work (took the engineers a few months to discover it, but they're all pretty erect about it) and I don't remember that it came with the story.. I thought the story was pretty cool.
-Jessica

Check this out. Click the link before reading the rest of the email. Is
this an engineers dream or what? This is a commercial for the new European
Honda Accord, which will be sold here as an Acura (TSX):
http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

It's a two-minute ad done without any computer graphics, but will surely
go down as one of the most amazing commercials of all time. If you are
interested, watch the movie first before reading the narrative below. "Six
hundred and six takes it took, and if they had been forced to do a 607th
it is probable, if not downright certain, that one of the film crew would
have snapped and gone mad. On the first 605 occasions something small,
usually infuriatingly minute, went just slightly awry and the whole
delicate arrangement was wrecked. A drop too much oil there, or here maybe
one ball-bearing too many giving a fraction too much impetus to the
movement. Whirr, creak, crash, the entire, card-house of consequences was
a write-off and they had to start again.

Honda's latest television advertisement, a two-minute film called "Cog",
is like a fine-lubricated line of dominoes. It begins with a transmission
bearing which rolls into a synchro hub which in turn rolls into a gear
wheel cog and plummets off a table on to a camshaft and pulley wheel. All
the parts are from the new Honda Accord - #16,495 to you, guv'nor, or #6
million if you want to pay for the advertising campaign. And what an
amazing ad campaign it is, too.

Back on Cog, things are still moving, in a what-happened-next manner
redolent of "there was an old woman who swallowed a fly". With a ting and
a ding of metal on metal, a thud of contact and the occasional thwock,
plop and extended scraping sound, the viewer watches as individual,
stripped-down parts of car roll into one another and set off more
reactions. Three valve stems roll down a sloped bonnet. An exhaust box is
pushed with just enough energy into a rear suspension link which nudges a
transmission selector arm which releases the brake pedal loaded with a
small rubber brake grommit. Catapult! Boing! On goes the beautiful dance,
everything intricately balanced and poised. Nothing must be even a
sixteenth of an inch off course or the momentum will be lost. At one point
three tyres, amazingly, roll uphill. They do so because inside they have
been weighted with bolts and screws which have been positioned with
fingertip care so that the slightest kiss of kinetic energy pushes them
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