"U.S. authorities want to try a Briton who hacked into top military sites to see what he could learn about aliens. They're upset, the hacker says, because it was so easily accomplished. As usual, sieve-like Microsoft software offered the way in."

Wired has this wonderful story...

Spiegel: Wann weint das Web?

How C.R.A.P is Your Site Design? The four golden rules of site design. Simply follow them and watch the accolades come flooding in.

"Scanr is a powerful service that automatically: cleans photos of whiteboards and documents tags documents with extracted keywords delivers the results as PDF files or faxes"

scanr.com

"They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect."

"The proliferation of pirated copies nevertheless establishes Microsoft products — particularly Windows and Office — as the software standard. As economies mature and flourish and people and companies begin buying legitimate versions, they usually buy Microsoft because most others already use it. It's called the network effect."

From "How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows" in the LAtimes.com

"The number of video-sharing sites has shot through the roof recently, as dozens of companies try to become the Flickr of the online video world. To this end, many video services have started offering new features like editing and remixability in an attempt to snatch a piece of the ever-expanding online video pie. But for the average user--who just wants to post a video on the 'net and share it with some friends--there are already too many options out there. All one really wants to know is, which site is going to work, with the least amount of hassle?"

At dvguru.com

Via del.icio.us

Windows only: The hotDigg screensaver displays headlines from popular tech news site Digg when your computer's not in use. (...) The headlines fly by pretty fast - the less popular ones at a nearly illegible size - and the links aren't clickable, but the hotDigg'll keep you up on the popular Digg headlines at a glance without having to visit the site itself."

HotDigg via micropersuasion.com/

Fun, fun, fun!

"Thanks to a never-ending campaign by Apple's powerful public relations machine to protect the myths surrounding the company's origin, almost everyone believes that Apple was started in a garage by 'the two Steves,' Stephen Gary Wozniak, 25, and Steven Paul Jobs, 21. Actually, the operation began in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos (the house number changed to 2066 when the land was annexed from the county to the city in late 1983), where Jobs--after having dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon--was living with his adoptive parents, Paul R. (a machinist at Spectra Physics) and Clara (a payroll clerk at Varian). That mere semantic distinction can be forgiven. When the bedroom became too crowded, the operation did indeed move to the garage.

The bigger story here is that the two Steves weren't alone in forming Apple. Just as Soviet propagandists doctored photos to remove party members who had fallen out of favor, Apple suffers from a convenient case of institutional amnesia by routinely ignoring the fact that when Apple was originally founded as a partnership on April Fools' Day 1976, there were three founders: Woz, Jobs, and a fellow by the name of Ronald Gerald Wayne, 41."

Read the exciting story about Apples origin at The Denver Post Online

"The Apple I was Steven Wozniak's first contribution to the personal computer field. It was designed over a period of years, and was only built in printed circuit-board form when Steve Jobs insisted it could be sold. It debuted in April 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, but few took it seriously. The Apple I's initial cost was $666.66."

Happy Birthday!

"Google is in many ways the most useful tool available to the bad guys, and the most dangerous Web site on the Internet for many, many thousands of individuals and organizations."

More at securityfocus.com

That way, everyone will know what you mean.

Excellent article on Bubble 2.0 at slate.com..

New place to host all your digital files! Watch this space!

Marvin Minsky, MIT (First published in AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Fall 1982.)

You may not get tickets for the football world cup but you can go here and reserve a seat in the online stadium...

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"Please God, Just One More Bubble!" I like their attitude.

"Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts and peer-to-peer services. Among the targets: isoHunt, TorrentSpy and eDonkey.

But, as always, one prominent site is missing from the movie industry's announcement and it happens to be the simplest and best-known source of traded movies -- along with pirated video games, music, software, audio books, television broadcasts and nearly any other form of media imaginable. The site is called The Pirate Bay, and it's operated by a crew of intrepid Swedes who revel in tormenting the content industries."

Story about the problems with Sweden's copyright law at Wired

Too geeky for me, but it seems to work.

11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks

List of online free tools that help us to program, design, develope, optimize, etc.

What the fuck is he talking about...?

"Lego Bartender Robot mixing real Drinks at CeBIT 2006"

Here it is...

Use the mouse and click!

Boxxet (pronounced "box set") brings together the "best of" news, blogs, photos, gear, services and much more on people's favorite subjects. Boxxet uses a unique combination of computer automation and community participation to produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations on your favorite subjects.

FeedYes.com gives rss feeds to websites without feeds Just type the url of any page, and FeedYes gives you the feed.

iClip is a new multiple clipboard/scrapbook software application for Apple Macintosh computers with OS X. Quickly gather snippets of information that just aren’t practical to save as entire documents…

Zohocreator: Create your web application in minutes, not days. It's just few mouse clicks away.

Listible: Best stuff to put on your blog sidebar

Most of this was found via Lifehacker

"In the post-9/11 world, there's much focus on connecting the dots. Many believe data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover future terrorist plots. But even in the most wildly optimistic projections, data mining isn't tenable for that purpose. We're not trading privacy for security; we're giving up privacy and getting no security in return." Bruce Schneier in Wired

"Forget about the killer feature. Welcome to the age of the killer user-experience."

Excellent short analysis and a must-read: WHY FEATURES DON'T MATTER ANYMORE: THE NEW LAWS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

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