] The average American moviegoer taking in the Matrix
] Reloaded this weekend will likely be wowed by the
] elaborate action sequences and dazzling special effects.
] But hackers who've seen the blockbuster are crediting it
] with a more subtle cinematic milestone: it's the first
] major motion picture to accurately portray a hack.

More detailed info about the (very cool) hacking scene in the Matrix Reloaded. I love it when a movie pays attention to the details.

The Matrix's Nmap Hacking Scene

Oh, yeah, this was such a GREAT idea the first time around when it was called DIVX.

The discs stop working when a process similar to rusting makes them unreadable. The discs start off red, but when they are taken out of the package, exposure to oxygen turns the coating black and makes it impenetrable by a DVD laser.

You get a week from most rental places. I don't see what the consumer appeal is going to be with these. They are not going to sell.

Oh, wait, I know.. You can buy them, take them home, and copy them with the DVD burners that are starting to become cheap..

Yahoo! News - Disney to Begin Renting 'Self-Destructing' DVDs

] We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes...
] Now available: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, and
] Stomach Ache.

Cool!

Welcome to GIANTmicrobes!

] A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large
] fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the
] past half century, the devastating result of industrial
] fishing.
]
] The study, which took 10 years to complete and was
] published in the international journal Nature this week,
] paints a grim picture of the Earth's current populations
] of such species as sharks, swordfish, tuna and marlin.
]
] The authors used data going back 47 years from nine
] oceanic and four continental shelf systems, ranging from
] the tropics to the Antarctic. Whether off the coast of
] Newfoundland, Canada, or in the Gulf of Thailand, the
] findings were dire, according to the authors.
]
] "I think the point is there is nowhere left in the ocean
] not overfished," said Ransom Myers, a fisheries biologist
] at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia

SNIP

This is bad. This is really bad. "Eat mor chikin"

CNN.com - Study: Only 10 percent of big ocean fish remain - May. 14, 2003

] Actor Robert Stack, who played the Prohibition detective
] Eliot Ness in the 1960s TV series The Untouchables, died
] on Wednesday in his Los Angeles home aged 84.

No unsolved mystery here.. he just died of heart failure... :(

Actor Robert Stack dies

"...To the plaaaaanet core!" Boss Nass

] A Hollywood-like proposal to explore the center of the
] Earth calls for exploding a crack in the planet's surface
] and dropping a probe in behind tons of molten iron, which
] would sink and forge a path to the core.
]
] The plan is not ready for primetime, its creator told
] SPACE.com, but neither is it pie-in-the-sky.
]
] Exploring Earth's belly is ambitious in a scientific
] sense and could yield valuable data. The solid inner core
] rotates faster than the outer core, which is fluid and is
] responsible for Earth's magnetic field. But scientists
] don't know exactly why all this is so, nor do they know
] the exact composition or temperature of the core.
]
] A schematic shows how the probe would descend with molten
] iron, all in a crack that closes up behind the mission.
]
] If further research showed the core mission could
] actually work, it would be comparable in dollar terms
] with many space projects, says David Stevenson, a Caltech
] planetary scientist who has worked on several missions
] for NASA. Stevenson explains his idea in an article
] titled "A Modest Proposal" for the May

SNIP

NASA Meets Hollywood: Real Mission Proposed to Earth's Core

] With so many projects on the web dealing with various
] aspects of creating a Linux PVR, this site's main goal is
] become a central point where people can come and see the
] current state of creating a Linux PVR of their own.

A website that covers the status of various Linux PVR projects.

The Linux PVR Depot

] "What we heard back from him (Rosenberg) was that Eminem
] was fine with me having the parody on my album but said
] he was afraid that a Weird Al video might detract from
] his legacy, that it would somehow make people take him
] less seriously as an important hip-hop artist," Yankovic
] said.
]
] Yankovic said even though he didn't get to make the
] video, he's grateful Eminem let him use the song in the
] first place. "I'm grateful to Eminem; he at least let me
] put it on the album," Yankovic said. “I have to say I'm
] extremely disappointed at the same time; frankly, this
] was going to be the best video that I've ever done."

Eminem says 'no' to Weird Al

..or s it humor. The longest living "headless" chicken.

Mike's True Story

What could be greater entertainment than six monkeys and a computer?

Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare