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BREAKING SURF
If you're considering the jump to Windows XP, you might want to look past the marketing and into the InfoWorld Test Center work. Although many have been singing the praises of XP, a few dissonate voices in the chorus have suggested that if what you presently run is working for you, there's no pressing need to upgrade. InfoWorld's results indicate, for example, that Windows 2000 outperforms XP under identical conditions: although XP performance improves when run on dual processor systems, so does 2000's. In general, XP underperforms Windows 2000 by about 20% - a significant hit for any business. Don't forget that to make XP perform optimally, businesses may even have to invest in newer PC hardware, which just adds to overhead. InfoWorld recommends that businesses running Windows 2000 stick with that platform. Although they don't address the needs of the home-user community, rumor has it that users of Windows 98/ME have no compelling reason to upgrade. Still using Windows 95? You aren't eligible for the upgrade, anyway. You'd be better off buying a new, XP-ready system, if you even find the need to upgrade pressing.http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.xml
Passport Security Vulnerabilities
It's no secret that Microsoft wants everyone to sign up for its Passport service, and it touts the service particularly annoyingly in Windows XP. While a single authentication service for transacting business on the Internet may seem convenient, this detailed article points out Passport's numerous, deep-seated design flaws, which leave users vulnerable to the theft of personal information. Passport isn't yet widely used by retailers, but it needs major work before it should be allowed to become a dominant player in authentication services. This revealing look under the hood won't reassure anyone sensitive to security issues. It demonstrates how anyone can steal a Passport user's credit card and address info merely by sending an e-mail to that user's Hotmail account, provided the user reads the e-mail within 15 minutes of logging in. Microsoft says it has already fixed that particular vulnerability, but Passport is still far from the robust, secure software that users need to safeguard sensitive information.http://alive.znep.com/~marcs/passport/
A Report Card for the Three-Year-Old Microsoft Halloween Memo
Three years ago, the infamous Halloween memo appeared. As we reported in NSD 4.33, the memo, leaked from Microsoft, contained a detailed attempt to understand the challenge posed by the open-source software movement and Linux in particular. Some of the report's propositions, such as creating proprietary standards for existing technologies like Hailstorm and .NET, have come to pass. Others have not. LWN.net, a Linux advocate site, analyzes the original report and its predictions.LWN.net: http://lwn.net/2001/1101/
NSD 4.33: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/v04/nsd.04.33.html#BS2#BS2
A spat about free speech in CNN's online chat rooms has some folks wondering just what's going on. High-school student Aaron Schlosser was using a CNN online chat room with friends when one of them typed "indymedia" - shorthand for the non-profit Independent Media Center - in a message, a message that never showed up in the text buffer. Aaron logged in to the chat room with two accounts, each in its own browser window, and tried to send similar messages. He found that messages that included "indymedia", "indy media", or even "1ndym3d14" never made it on-screen. Aaron subsequently wrote about his experience for the, ahem, Independent Media Center. CNN admits it has banned "indymedia" and related phrases from its chat rooms but says it acted to protect chatters from overzealous Indymedia supporters who pester them to get their news from the Indymedia site. CNN interprets this as advertising, which it does not allow in its chat rooms. Others aren't so sure the story is so simple, as some interesting history has passed between the two sites. Wired has the story.
Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=79356
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48058,00.html
Look! Up in the Sky! Leonid Meteor Shower!
Anyone who has seen meteors silently etch their blazing paths across the dark heavens knows how awesome they are. Some astronomers think this year's Leonid meteor shower could be spectacular, possibly producing one or two thousand meteors per hour. One of the great things about meteors is that you don't need fancy telescopes or a detailed knowledge of the night sky to observe them. All you need is a clear sky free of light pollution - well, and a functioning visual apparatus. You'll also have to crawl out of bed well before dawn (in the Americas) on Nov. 18 to catch the peak activity. Meteors, while delightful, pose a risk to satellites. Vulnerable spacecraft, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are being oriented to minimize the chance of damage from meteor strikes. We've a bright storm of sites to tell you all about the Leonids and comet Tempel-Tuttle, whose dusty tail is responsible for them.NASA: http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/
Sky & Telescope: http://www.skypub.com/sights/meteors/3showers.html
Ancient sightings: http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/leonidancient.html
Space Station Out to Lunch, May Order Chinese
NASA's International Space Station (ISS) is in trouble. Unable to control costs, and equally unable to forecast future costs, NASA is confronting a serious budget crisis that might ultimately make the station far less useful than originally planned. The recent ISS Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force report is depressing reading for those interested in a thriving space station. Coupled with the resignation of longtime NASA chief Dan Goldin, the ISS's problems may well be nearly terminal. MSNBC reports that the ISS might get a boost from a new partner, China, which seems eager to participate and to put Chinese astronauts into orbit. The Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz, would be able to dock with the ISS and will soon undergo additional extensive flight testing.Report: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/2001/imce.pdf
MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/648209.asp
It Takes a Porkchop to Get to Mars
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the challenge of delivering the 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to precise Martian orbit is a little like driving a car at 100 miles per hour, slamming on the brakes, and maneuvering perfectly into a tiny parking spot. Planning such a feat requires a tremendous number of calculations, and foremost among them is the all-important porkchop plot, the basic trajectory blueprint of the upcoming mission. This porkchop-shaped contour plot contains the launch and arrival date characteristics of the flight path that will wedge the Orbiter into its Martian parking spot. The JPL Web site provides details on the 2005 Orbiter plot, and while you're in the neighborhood you can check out the first infrared image transmitted from Mars Odyssey.Porkchop: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/porkchop01.html
Image: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/index.html
Leonardo Bridge Project Spans Time
When Leonardo da Vinci designed what, at 240 meters, would have been the longest bridge in the world at the time, he knew his plan was ambitious. What he couldn't have imagined was that instead of spanning the Bosporus as intended, his visionary creation was destined instead to span 500 years as a bridge to another millennium. In 1502, a skeptical sultan rejected Leonardo's design as impossible, but 300 years later lagging civilization finally embraced the engineering principle - arches as supports - underlying the construction. The bridge, at least a smaller version, has at last been constructed, in Norway. BBC News has the story, and Vebjorn Sand, the man behind the modern project, has a site with images and details.BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1630000/1630792.stm
Vebjorn: http://www.vebjorn-sand.com/thebridge.htm
Conference on the Public Domain
Increased intellectual property rights impoverish the public domain. A conference at Duke University intends to examine the conflict in law, society, and intellectual life to shed light on how the technical revolution has affected the public domain. The conference organizers frame the question at the heart of the issue thusly: "Must we privatize the public domain to avoid a 'tragedy of the commons,' or can the technologies of cheap copying and global networks actually make common pool management more efficient than legal monopolies?" Anyone with an interest in intellectual property should visit the site as the conference unfolds, and is webcast, this coming weekend.http://www.law.duke.edu/pd/
Francisco Dugo, a Barcelona cabdriver, has mounted a digital camera in his taxi and snaps as he goes, stopping occasionally to upload the pick of the pics to his Web site. You don't have to speak Spanish or Portugese to enjoy the site, but it wouldn't hurt. Interestingly, it draws in not only websurfers, but cab fares - visitors from as far away as Brazil seek Francisco's cab out specifically and he offers online reservations. We're all used to booking flights, hotels, and rental cars on the Web, but a taxi in Spain? This creative cabdriver has come up with a way to inform, illuminate, and, not coincidentally, garner some business from Web-savvy travelers. Small business owners would do well to take note. Wired has a story, but the site has the details.
Francisco: http://www.taxitupi.com/
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,47666,00.html
The Dismal Scientist Layoff Calculator
The Dismal Scientist economic news Web site - economics is known as the "dismal science" - has created this bit of dismally entertaining statistical programming. By looking at where you live in the US, your occupation, and a few other factors, the Dismal Scientist Layoff Calculator will determine your chance of getting laid off by the end of 2002. The site notes that overall, the median probability of losing your job by the end of next year is 5%, which seems awfully high - are one in 20 Americans really going to lose their jobs in the next 13 months?http://www.dismal.com/dismal/dsp/tools/calculator/layoff.asp
Would You Buy an Online New York Times?
Most of us have become accustomed to free news from the Web. Much as we may love it, it's a losing proposition from the perspective of the content providers. They like to measure draw in paying customers, and so do the advertisers. The New York Times (NYT), while retaining the free online version, has instituted an ambitious plan to reproduce the exact and entire content of each issue in electronic format for distribution to subscribers willing to pay 65 cents per downloaded issue. What you see on your screen is a reproduction of the paper NYT with clickable links. You'll be able to save a week's worth of issues to your laptop or PDA, complete with photos (and ads). NewsStand, a company that has already entered this arena primarily within the British Commonwealth, is supplying the technology to the NYT. NewsStand recommends the service only for those with high-bandwidth access and, for now, only offers a reader for non-XP versions of Windows. Will the NYT's prime demographic take the plunge?NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/ee/
NewsStand: http://www.newsstand.com/
Bloomberg Offers Business Video Feeds
Finance and business news provider Bloomberg is getting into the webcasting business. Its new video feed service gives visitors access to such popular Bloomberg programs as "Moneywise," "Money Flow", and "Sector Plays". In addition, visitors can also watch live business news feeds from all over the world. The feed comes in RealVideo or Microsoft Media Player flavors and features a search engine of archived video footage.http://www.bloomberg.com/
Free Ad Hosting from 24/7 Real Media
To drum up business in the chronically ill online advertising market, ad-hosting company 24/7 Real Media is offering free hosting to new customers through the end of the year. The company, the result of a merger of 24/7 Media and Real Media, is trying to take on industry behemoth DoubleClick. A CNet article states that DoubleClick has over 1,000 customers and serves 55 billion ad impressions per month. It's hard to compete with those kind of numbers, and there's a good chance that 24/7 Real Media won't survive into the middle of next year.CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7801719.html
24/7 Real Media: http://www.247media.com/
You can choose several ways to get your personal, club, or small business Web site online. Most cheaply, you can use a free Web host - but your site will be littered with trashy banners and/or dingbats and there's often a low ceiling to the number of megabytes you can store. If you're willing to spend some token change, however, have we found a deal for you. Virtual Gamers Online (VGO) is a Web hosting company which some of us have helped beta test over the last few months, and we've been extremely satisfied with the hosting plans and especially the service. As you might suspect, VGO primarily markets to gamers online and off, but anyone can take advantage of the deals. For $16 a month (and a set-up fee that will be waived until Nov. 23), you get 150 MB of Webspace, 30 e-mail accounts or mailing lists, and personal help with all sorts of procedures including setting up your own domain name. We're not getting kickbacks here, we're just very happy with the outfit. Also, check out the VGOgamer button at the site for game reviews.
http://www.virtualgamersonline.com/
ONLINE CULTURE
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Do you long for the good old days? They're all there on the Web, naturally, and thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can visit them. Do you want to see what the MSN Web site looked like on Oct. 22, 1996? It looked nothing like today's version, and you could access it with any browser. This incredible site is a project of the Internet Archive, which has been collecting every Web page it can for the last five years. The main database contains more than 10 billion pages and occupies over 100 TB of disk space. NSD sees and reviews many superb sites, and the Wayback Machine easily falls into the top ten. Searching is fast and reasonably precise, and pulling up results is quick. In addition to the main, full database, smaller sections (still terabytes of data) focus on Sept. 11, Election 2000, the United States government, and Web pioneers.http://www.archive.org/
"Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace" was widely panned by both critics and fans, but some fans did not take the film sitting down. Shortly after the film's release on video, a fan who calls himself the "Phantom Editor" re-cut the movie, making it shorter and crisper - and, yes, Jar Jar Binks is mostly cut out of the re-edit. Shortly thereafter, other fans created still other cuts of the movie using the very digital editing technology of which George Lucas is so enamored. An underground online trading network sprung up and flourished, and eventually people began to sell their re-edited versions - much to the alarm of Lucasfilm's copyright lawyers. Salon looks at this major shift in the artistic landscape, the first time movie fans have seized the power to re-imagine and possibly improve upon the work of the professionals.
Salon: http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/11/05/phantom_edit/index.html
Phantom Edit: http://members.onecenter.com/hollywood/phantomedit/
Salon calls this piece "High Score", an apt name for a story about stoners playing online games such as Quake and Counter-Strike. In the communication-happy Net culture, there are no secrets, and it's not surprising that there's so much online literature about playing under the influence. The article includes numerous links to such material, including the German Web site of a couple of enterprising experimenters who played Quake under the influence of a variety of drugs and posted the carefully researched results online. Playing high has become so blatant that some LAN party organizers are hiring security guards and adopting strict no booze, no smokes, no drugs policies. It's a good piece on the online gaming subculture. Use Babel Fish to translate the Quake on Drugs site.
Salon: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/11/06/games_drugs/index.html
Quake on Drugs: http://www.networkz.ch/quakeondrugs/
Babel Fish: http://world.altavista.com/
If your idea of a bulletin board involves thumbtacks, then skip ahead to the next section. If, however, it involves a callback verification, we're speaking the same language. Jason Scott is trying to film a documentary on bulletin board systems or BBSes. Although they're still around today, they flourished in the '80s and early '90s, and have been in decline ever since. Jason's trying to capture their history before they completely fade away. It's a formidable project. We suspect many of our readers may have been BBS-types in the day, and we encourage you to hop over to the site to see if you can assist the effort.
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
If you love Russian art of the St. Petersburg Academy school, and don't mind dropping $2,000 to $12,000 online, you might want to shop at the LLVK Art gallery of contemporary Russian art. The LLVK Art gallery - which you can browse through without opening your Javan rhino skin wallet - includes more than 80 works by 32 artists, with short bios and details, as well as a small exhibition of works by fauvist painter Rostislav Vovkushevsky. For an interesting article on the new St. Petersburg trend in art, read "The Geometry of Neo-Academism" by Vadim Sergeev, a part of the 3 Roubles 62 Kopeks project to raise awareness of new eastern European artists.LLVK Art: http://www.llvkart.com/
Vadim: http://services.worldnet.net/~coronado/362/EXH/OST00.HTM
3 Roubles: http://home.worldnet.fr/~coronado/
We felt it unwise to rely purely upon our own jaded senses here, so we brought in a couple of the folks that this site's really designed for: kids. This is a relaunch of a site for the popular PBS cartoon, "Arthur", which had been drawing a million visitors per month before the revamp. Judging by the reaction of the kids, it's going to continue its established pattern of success. Parents and teachers haven't been left out, either - a grown-ups section offers parent guides, activities, book recommendations, and, our favorite, lice info. The Arthur site also serves as a portal to other kid-friendly PBS sites, such as the Barney site, Clifford, and a number of others. When they were finally shooed away from the computer, the kids were already planning their itineraries for the "next time". You really can't get a much better recommendation than that.
http://www.pbskids.org/arthur/
It may not be Dilbert, but the Dot-Gone Guy comic strip also tells tales of the Internet lifestyle. The big difference is that this protagonist doesn't have a job anymore. Ironically, the Dot-Gone Guy strip was supposed to be in place temporarily, but he seems to have landed a permanent position, unlike the poor folks the strip parodies. The strip calls the Seattle Times home, and local companies like Webvan figure prominently - but so do fast food outlets, as alternative sources of income. Upon further inspection, it appears that Dot-Gone Guy's last public appearance was Sept. 7, which may mean the artist is now in the unemployment line, too.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/entertainment/links/dotgoneguy/
The joy of streamed music is that you can listen to what you want, when you want, and not wait for it to land on your hard drive before you can play it. Point your Windows Media Player to DigiStream to hear a wide variety of music, including rock, big band, classical, and jazz. Particularly useful for European users, DigiStream attempts to offer an up-to-date directory of Windows Media streams complete with user ratings. If you've got a really fast connection, take a peek at the streamed videos, too. All the music comes in Windows Media format only, so that while Windows, Mac, and Sun Solaris users can listen, users of Linux or most other versions of Unix are out of luck.
http://www.digistream.co.uk/
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The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection
The Secret History of the CIA
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Dune: House CorrinoBOOKS & E-ZINES
Those of us who are fans of Neal Stephenson's seminal work of second-generation cyberpunk, "Snow Crash", drive by storage units with that random thought floating through our heads, "I wonder what'd it'd be like to live there." Jodi Jill can tell us. She spent ten years with her parents and siblings in Unit 151 in Loveland, Colo. This frightening account of a girl trapped by her own family is also an inspiring story of determination in the face of incredible odds. At the age of 15, Jill taught herself to read. Today, her resume reads "literary agent, sculptor, author". Perhaps she should add champion to the list.http://www.westword.com/issues/2001-10-04/feature.html/page1.html
Judge an Interactive Fiction Game Competition
If you're among those who believe that the most vivid, best-rendered game graphics are generated by the cerebral cortex, you'll want to check out the Seventh Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. Organized by people who met in a Usenet newsgroup, the original 1995 competition had 12 entries and two rules: every submitted game had to be winnable in under two hours and anybody could judge. This year's competition offers 52 short text adventures, and judging remains open to all. Judges are asked to play five or more games and to vote on each game at the end of two hours of play. The deadline for vote submissions is Nov. 15. On a related note, old-time interactive fiction fans will get a kick out of the Zork-inspired 404 error message at THCNET.Competition: http://ifcomp.org/
THCNET: http://thcnet.net/error/404.php
Sweet Fancy Moses: Wit among the Internet Rushes
How shall we describe Sweet Fancy Moses (SFM), the "online journal of wit"? Well, we could say that SFM is a collection of clever, bite-sized fiction that loads quickly, looks clean, delivers the payload, and just generally doesn't try the user's patience. That may be a little low-key, however; creator Scott Herlihy describes SFM thusly: "a collective work where intellect, humor, and voice come together in orgiastic triple climax" - which may be a tad more excited than we want to get over wit of any kind, but that's just us. You can read the e-zine to evaluate its orgiastic qualities for yourself, and for more on the ambitious man behind SFM, check out a Whet Magazine interview that calls him an "elf-like Irish Napoleon of wit".SFM: http://www.sweetfancymoses.com/
Whet: http://www.whetmag.com/mag/particle.php?articleid=29
Royal Journal: Another Man's Treasure
The best content in the Royal Journal mostly concerns things that have strayed from their intended purpose to eventually wash up on the shores of the Internet, where they confound and tantalize us. We love all ten pages of the Found Art section, with such street-salvaged gems as the birthday card from Nancy to Scott that bears the inscription "Hope you have a great birthday! And please don't bother to have a bath." Another great page of wayfaring items is the J & H Productions page of sound files from a real-life, would-be but utterly lost music entrepreneur's hilarious pitch tape to various entertainment groups. Comics connoisseurs will want to have a look at Bazooka Joe in Hebrew, the Dondi collection, and the not-Archies.http://www.royaljournal.com/
Looking for Used Books in the UK?
A used-book site advertising over a million out-of-print books in stock? That's a pretty tall order. We put this UK site to the test by searching for an obscure first edition on African elephants from 30 years past. They had it - and at a competitive price. On the other hand, they didn't have the next book we searched for, so maybe they only have 999,999 books in stock. Nonetheless, for the British bibliophile, this easy-to-use site is worth bookmarking. It claims to add over 2,000 titles each day, so if they don't have what you're looking for just yet, it may turn up in a few days' time. The search interface is among the cleanest of any we've encountered on a bookselling site, and it's quite fast. The site accepts most cards, and even PayPal, on their secure ordering page. The Web site is currently being restructured, so there's no browsing the stacks at present; you can only get to the search, ordering, and contact sections right now.http://www.bookbarn.co.uk/
SURFING SCIENCE
It's been years since Hawkeye Pierce tramped around the 4077th MASH. These days, Alan Alda is hosting the Scientific American Frontiers series on PBS. The show's episodes cover an array of issues - a recent segment looked at an artificial nose capable of detecting chemical concentrations on the order of one part per billion, matching the sensitivity of a dog's nose. This isn't just any inane project; it's hoped that the nose will prove itself as a tool for detecting the 50 million or more abandoned land mines buried around the world. Moving on, the show's site discusses technology, such as Irene Pepperberg's "InterPet Explorer" software, designed to allow bored and lonely parrots a degree of control over their environments. The segments are packed with interesting stuff, and the accompanying site has even more to offer - Shockwave interactives, video archives, and much more. You'll want to set a substantial chunk of time aside for a visit here.http://www.pbs.org/saf/
The "Evolution" miniseries on PBS offers an examination of evolutionary science. From Darwin to extinction, the origin of the human mind to the concept of God, the programs offer both science and religious representation in a discussion about the fundamental origins of our world. Witness how a new species can evolve, delve into the secret inner world of Charles Darwin, and play "The Mating Game". Dozens of other entertaining and informative features and multimedia resources are available to explore the mechanism that determines who lives, who dies, and who gets the opportunity to pass traits on to the next generations. Extensive teacher resources are available to help enhance understanding of evolutionary concepts.
http://pbs.org/evolution/
You know there are times when your computer is idle, the CPU equivalent of sitting around in your underwear watching football on a Sunday afternoon. Why not put it to good use? We've told you about the distributed computing products FoldingAtHome (NSD 6.33), Casino-21 (5.34), the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (4.06), and SETIAtHome (5.20 last update), but you haven't yet heard a pitch for GenomeAtHome, a program which aims to better understand genomes and the proteins they code by using your computer to design and analyze new proteins which have not yet been found in nature. Want to join up? Do your homework, then download the GenomeAtHome protein sequence design client, which comes in Windows and Linux flavors.
http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/
SOFTWARE
AOL has tweaked its browser yet again, releasing Netscape 6.2 this week. The new version is much stabler than the problem-plagued 6.0 version, though there are some reports of incompatabilities with MSN and other Microsoft Web sites even after Microsoft's resolution of the Web site incompatibilities it introduced last week with the launch of WinXP. This version of Netscape also features better standards support, a Quick Launch feature for Windows, better autocomplete, and the ability to access Netscape Mail within Windows applications.http://browsers.netscape.com/browsers/main.tmpl
Gnutella Network Visualization Program
This app goes by the name "Gnutellavision" and it maps the connections between hosts on the Gnutella file-sharing network. The program, developed by Rachna Dhamija, Danyel Fisher, and Ka-Ping Yee, is presented with a good scholarly paper that discusses the origin of the work, related software, and some rejected interface ideas, and provides numerous references. The paper alone is worth a visit, while the software can be downloaded and played with. The program has already led the authors to conclude that the Gnutella network is filled with "impatient" nodes that constantly connect and disconnect. The exercise has contributed to the art and science of peer-to-peer networking.http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~rachna/courses/infoviz/gtv/
CORRECTIONS
Andy Mattern, Not a Porn Merchant
Andy Mattern, whose site we reviewed in the appropriately titled "Andy Mattern, Artist" (NSD 6.42), has an equally appropriate new URL, as shown below. His old URL has been taken over by an online porn merchant, which strikes both Andy and ourselves as somewhat odd.http://www.andymattern.com/