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Volume 09, Issue 40 Friday, October 17, 2003 |
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BREAKING SURF Yang Liwei, a 38-year-old former fighter pilot, has become the first Chinese astronaut. After 21 hours and 14 Earth orbits, his craft more....PLoS Launches Biology Journal with Monkey Cyborgs Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a more.... There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill", and their totally freaked-out mothers. To more.... Hot on the heels of the Nobel Prizes, the MacArthur Foundation announces the 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2003, each of whom gets a cool more.... The electrical grid in the US and Canada is basically one huge machine, part of which failed in August, bringing the joys of simpler more....How People Use and Respond to E-Mail Ever wonder why someone hasn't responded to your e-mail? Have you ever felt guilty about not replying to an e-mail? Researchers at more....What You Must Know about Unicode Ask the average programmer what he thinks about Unicode and you'll probably get an enthusiastic endorsement of the concept. Ask him to more....The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time The Guardian has just released cultural flame bait in the form of its choice of the 100 greatest novels. Is it just us or are does the list more.... Conceptual artist Jonathan Keats, with obviously way too much thinking time on his hands - er, head, dreamed up the idea of more....Dolling the Dress-Up Dollz of the Internet The Internet subculture commonly called "dolling" is almost entirely dominated by females and consists of creating and dressing up 2-D more....Blogger Says Google AdSense Makes Sense, and Dollars Last week, we told you about Google's less-than-nimble treatment of some of its AdSense users. Here's another side to the story, not from more....Polish Spackers Offer Invisible Hosting Hackers and spammers are joining forces to make tracing spam nearly impossible. Spacking, as some call this new union, has produced at more....Open-Source Spam Filters Stay Step ahead of Spammer Tactics Digital signatures were supposed to make us all safe, but most Net users don't employ them. Spammers do, though, in hopes of snaking more....Krishna Bharat and His Google News Do you check out Google News regularly? If so, you're not alone. The site won a 2003 Webby for best news site. Online Journalism review more.... Bill Joy has left Sun Microsystems. As the inventor of Java and a host of other technologies, Joy is sometimes called the Edison of the more....ONLINE CULTURE Social Sharing: The Next P2P Phenomenon? Clay Shirky sees the RIAA's high-profile legal campaign against file-sharers as the latest impetus in a drive toward progressively more.... Tim Bray is getting some attention in spam-whacking circles for resurrecting an old idea for countering spam. His particular plan is more....
SURFING SITES The Smithsonian's Visible Storage for the Ages One of the coolest image maps on the Web greets you at a Smithsonian Institution site called HistoryWired. It's a model of user more....Back to the Future of the Past The concept of the Retrofuture site is best summed up in its FAQ: "The Retrofuture is a concept based on a simple question: what more....The Cutting Edge of Advertising Everyday, we are all bombarded with hundreds of advertisements. As we become more desensitized to media messages, marketers are busy more.... The late John Paul Stapp, the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols recently won an Ig Nobel Prize for jointly giving birth in more.... If you think you're a uniquely eccentric sandwich artist with tastes such as peanut butter and cheese or chocolate spread and cornflakes, more....Create Your Own Bayeux Tapestry One historical date, more than any other, has been ingrained into the minds of generations of English schoolchildren - 1066, the year of more.... While the locations of major battles often become tourist attractions, the sites of past massacres are often ignored. more.... City planners rarely get to create a city from scratch unless they play SimCity, but at this site anybody with a creative urge, an more.... Geeks of all stripes can preview what the rest of October holds for them. IT Horoscopes is a whimsical look at the celestial prophecies more.... The Internet has made it easier stay in touch with family and friends who live many miles away. Funtigo is one of the many vehicles more....FLOTSAM & JETSAM De Clunibus Magnis Amandis Oratio "Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt" - Horace"Magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri" - Sir Mix-A-Lot more.... Send Yourself a Message in the Future If you could send yourself a vital message in the future, would you? You can at this simple and fun site. Write whatever, indicate if it is more....SOFTWARE Apple has announced the release of iTunes and the allied iTunes Music Store for Windows 2000 and XP. Apple's home page announced the fact more.... The Mozilla Foundation has released updates to its three flagship software packages. First, there is Mozilla 1.5, now slated to be the more.... |
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