Read about the guy who hacked phones by whistling a perfect 2600Hz tone while watching the most intrusive ad format I’ve seen so far — animations floating around in the background. This is the first ad that forced me to click on it. Result: I’m going to avoid such sites. I still like Google’s concept: give ads only to those who ask for them — and keep them seperate.
Asimov had AIDS. But because of a by-pass surgery.
All ISPs are going to start offering Internet Telephony pretty soon. Good.
Kopczuk and Slemrod demostrate that people will die later if it saves inheritance tax. I fully empathise.
Looks like the US has interfered a lot in all kinds of things. The Economist wants them to “… try again“.
The strong linkage between Google and blogs can lead to subversions like Googlebombing (more). The Church of Scientology is already using it.
Speaking of which, my weblog archive got a fair number of hits from the Google search for imdbpro password. I wondered why. Turns out that my archive joins IMDBPro and Metafilter as the only page that mentions the words IMDBPro and password!
Who’d have thought that you could steal data by recording LED lights!
The news on Morpheus and Gnutella.
Mindless addictive Shockwave game.
My sleeping posture “suggests” that I’m narrow-minded, self-centered, etc. Not true. (?)