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BugMeNot.com

A decent discussion why spam continues to exist... because it's profitable.

The economics of spam (The Register)

funny.

Bush vs Bush

Police have arrested three Brits on suspicion of flogging a lot of cannabis over the Internet - almost half a million pounds worth.

Police arrest 'online cannabis dealers'

Instead, the strange craft in the skies will mean that the Russians are finally here -- with a little help from the U.S. Navy.

Flying Saucer May Yet Take Flight

A new design for the building complex to replace the World Trade Center has been unveiled in New York.

I still like Vile's World Trade Sphinx idea better. Or a theme park might be fun (World Trade Land). Screw it... What we need is a bullseye.

Freedom Tower plan for WTC site

In August, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA released Volume 1 of its report on why the space shuttle crashed. As expected, the ship's foam insulation was the main cause of the disaster. But the board also fingered another unusual culprit: PowerPoint, Microsoft's well-known ''slideware'' program.

As an ex-Kinkos employee, I would have to agree. Power Point is the digital publishing equivalent to Death Metal.

PowerPoint Makes You Dumb

Scientists have developed a vibrating gel that creeps, crawls and slithers just as worms, snails and snakes do. Manoj K. Chaudhury of Lehigh University and his colleagues describe their artificial creepy-crawly--a hydrogel rod made out of the polymer acrylamide and water--in a report published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Good pets?

Polymer Snail Crawls Like the Real Thing

In response to the RIAA's suits, users who want to share music files are adopting tools like WINW and BadBlue, that allow them to create encrypted spaces where they can share files and converse with one another. As a result, all their communications in these spaces, even messages with no more commercial content than "BRITN3Y SUX!!!1!" are hidden from prying eyes. This is not because such messages are sensitive, but rather because once a user starts encrypting messages and files, it's often easier to encrypt everything than to pick and choose. Note that the broadening adoption of encryption is not because users have become libertarians, but because they have become criminals; to a first approximation, every PC owner under the age of 35 is now a felon.

The RIAA makes everyone a cypherpunk

"DAY ONE 5:10 pm
It's late on a Sunday afternoon and nearly dark inside the tiny, windowless lab; fluorescent light is said to be bad for human embryos. I'm sitting beside Robert Lanza, medical director at Advanced Cell Technology. He's breathing softly, hands folded neatly in his lap, his head bowed as if in meditation. For years he's been preparing for this day - making plans, conducting preliminary tests, losing sleep. Now, on October 12, we're six hours into the experiment and all he can do is watch."

Seven Days of Creation