BREAKING SURF
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| Andy Kaufman Returns |
| Analysis of Teens' Blogs |
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
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BREAKING SURF
Apple's Mac OS X operating system, far more secure than Windows, has a serious security hole. The problem is with how Mac browsers handle certain URLs, specifically ones that begin with "help:" and "disk:" strings. Clicking on a URL with those strings on a malicious Web page can allow a hacker to place and run a malicious program on your Mac. In addition to Web browsers, the popular RSS reader NetNewsWire is apparently vulnerable. There is no fix from Apple at press time, and while there are informal workarounds for the problem none of them is particularly efficient. Apple was informed of the problem in February but has not released a fix. Secunia has the details and a link to the bug discoverer, who decided to finally go public after nearly two months of silence from Apple. Wired has a lucid summary of the problem.Secunia: http://secunia.com/advisories/11622/
Wired: http://wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,63528,00.html
Jeff Sells a Scammer a P-P-P-Powerbook
Jeff had a PowerBook to sell on eBay. A buyer in the UK agreed to purchase it and nominated a third-party escrow site to make sure the transaction pleased all involved. This is a classic scam set-up, and fortunately Jeff knew that. He posted about the attempt at the Something Awful forums, where fellow posters did some digging. Inspired, Jeff decided to play the scammer. He strung the scammer along and sent him fake merchandise in exchange for the fake payment. The tale is hilarious, with nervous moments. A posse of Something Awfulers even staked out the destination and tried to visually record the moment of delivery. We don't want to say more lest we spoil the story for you. The Something Awful thread is 82 pages long and counting, but Jeff has a more concise account of the ensuing highjinks. We like the version at Mannequin3D.com for its elegant simplicity, but P-P-P-Powerbook has all associated files.Something Awful: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1016390
Mannequin3D.com: http://www.mannequin3d.com/powerbook/
P-P-P-Powerbook: http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/
Security Implications of Public Geospatial Information
Public agencies worry that public access to information helps terrorists, but it's highly impractical and dubiously moral to restrict it all. The RAND National Defense Research Institute has developed a way to assess the risk posed by exposing a class of information. Its study, for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and US Geological Survey, assessed the potential for misuse by terrorists of geospatial information - essentially maps, satellite images, coordinates, and databases. The lengthy report concludes that the vast majority of such info is of little value to terrorists, being either widely available elsewhere or of limited use in planning attacks. RAND's methodology provides governments a framework as objective as possible for decisions about publication of geospatial data. The proposed system compares risk with the social benefits of restriction and the societal costs. RAND admits that risk of misuse cannot ever be completely eliminated but its suggested methodology would help ensure a sensible tradeoff between public access and security.http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG142/
Sir Tim Calls New TLDs Harmful
"New Top-Level Domains Harmful" is the title of a W3C white paper authored by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in which he argues against the rush to open up new top-level domain (TLD) names like .xxx or .mobi. Berners-Lee notes that there is an inherent tension between the decentralized networked nature of the Net and its administrative root, the tree-like DNS system. Because of this tension, the paper argues, we must avoid introducing destabilizing influences to this system, like adding the .mobi domain. Much of Berners-Lee's argument is economic. He suggests that adding TLDs lowers the value of domain brands and raises the costs. Simply, to protect your brand, instead of buying the .com and .org versions of a domain, you have to buy more - it costs you. The paper further argues that .mobi, specifically, would divide the Web in an undesirable way.http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD
Imagine you could have the perfect wave, every time, any time. Thanks to Kerry Black, that fantasy is on its way to reality. Black has spent his life on and around ocean waves, riding them and dissecting them. He has surfed the world's most famous surf, with Oahu's Pipeline, Bali's Bingin, and Raglan, New Zealand on his resume. In pursuit of the elusive perfect wave, he has studied waves for his master's degree and doctorate, written about them in hundreds of technical papers, and taught about them as a professor of coastal oceanography and numerical modeling at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Black is applying his expertise to design an indoor surfing pool in Orlando, Fla. The pool will let you surf in central Florida - you'll lack only the screams of gulls, the smell of brine, and the threat of shark attack. Black knows how to create any kind of wave you can think of, and can even improve upon the freaky and accidental natural perfect break. This facility may profoundly affect the popularity and appeal of surfing, and Black's ideas are intriguing. Wired explores Black's uncanny understanding of wave behavior. He has even bragged that he could make a circular pool in which you could surf forever.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/surfing.html
Statistics on Historical Media Coverage of Weblogs
We savvy netizens know that, for good or bad, blogs have become a big thing, but how is that reflected in the popular press? One way to find out is to search for "blog", "weblog", and "web log" in the LexisNexis media archive database, and that's precisely what Cameron Marlow did. He reports at his blog that he found 4,051 hits from 1998 to the present and that, not surprisingly, the number of magazine and newspaper articles that include the terms has risen dramatically. Marlow found that the number of mentions per article has recently started to decline, but that probably indicates that the term has entered the mainstream now and no longer needs explaining. In conducting other searches, Marlow was surprised to find that Blogger and MovableType have far, far greater exposure in the press than LiveJournal, DairyLand, and Xanga, three other popular blogging tools. We're not surprised, but that may reflect our lack of blogger jigginess. Marlow offers his data to anyone interested in working with it.http://www.overstated.net/04/05/16-popular-press-and-weblogs.asp
Nick Denton's name is well known in East Coast media circles. Denton was the man behind the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter, a gossip sheet for the New York Internet scene in the bubble years. These days, he runs Gawker Media, which is trying to build a business empire based on weblogs. Denton's company currently publishes five popular weblogs: Gizmodo, Gawker, Wonkette, Fleshbot, and Defamer. Business 2.0 has a gossipy piece that features a short interview with Denton and looks at the profitability and future plans of Gawker Media - the article speculates that Denton plans to build up then sell the business. The piece is worth reading for anybody interested in the admittedly small-profit possibilities of weblog publishing.
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,633865,00.html
Napster has jumped into the European online music market ahead of Apple's iTunes Music Store - although by Europe, we really mean only the UK. The Napster store has certain limitations. Specifically, you need to run Windows and use Windows Media Player 9 to play the rights-managed WMA format songs. Napster is selling music at 1.09 pounds per song and 9.95 pounds per album, which is more than you can pay for an equivalent CD. Napster claims to have over 500,000 songs available, mostly from the five major music labels.
http://www.napster.co.uk/
Google Seeks Feedback for Proposed Software Principles
Citing "a growing disregard for your rights as computer users" among the plethora of spyware, pop-up ads, and expensive dialers buried in commercial software, Google is taking a stand on what it considers to be ethical principles of software design. The company has proposed that the principles it is setting down be adopted by the software industry. The dictates include rules such as software not tricking you to install it, full disclosure of functions, ease of deleting applications, no snooping, playing nice with other applications, and clear, non-confusing behavior. Google is looking for your feedback and you can send it in via the e-mail address on the Web page.http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principles.html
Let us start with a disclaimer: we can't imagine we haven't covered Googlewhacking in NSD before this (because we haven't - AB), but we can't find anything with the NSD search facility. We realize we're taking a public step down from divinity with this announcement, but this is a short issue and we just added 52 words. A Googlewhack occurs when a combination of keywords (and they must be real words) used to conduct a search at Google leads to one and only one Web page. We'd like to thank reader Graham Parry for alerting us to NSD's Googlewhack, which is "yottabyte esophagus" (don't use the quotation marks in a search) from NSD 5.32. We'd like to thank him, but his ISP (starts with "A", ends in "SOL" without the "S") is blocking our e-mail. Sadly, reporting this Googlewhack destroys it, although it may create a new one ("villainous yottabyte", anyone?) once a single villainous scum pirate posts this issue online.
Googlewhacking: http://www.googlewhack.com/
NSD 5.32: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v05/nsd.05.32.html
The online crowd eagerly awaits the chance to snap up a Gmail account - well, at least the ones who have heard of Gmail do.... Even though Gmail is still a beta limited in scope - or perhaps because of that - some people would do anything to join. In NSD 10.18, we told you about Gmail invitation auctions on eBay. At Gmail Swap, non-Gmailers desperate for a Gmail account can offer goods or services to entice Gmailers into flipping an invitation or account their way. Any Gmailers out there want a pet monkey, or maybe a Microsoft Paint image of a sad robot? The site conveniently posts a list of the most noteworthy swaps. After all, who couldn't use a pet monkey?
NSD 10.18: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v10/nsd.10.18.html#BS14
Gmail Swap: http://www.gmailswap.com/
Sad Robot: http://www.gmailswap.com/list/read.php?f=1&i=3295&t=3295
In case you haven't heard, Google is having an IPO. And things are getting a little crazy. Google will be selling the initial shares through a massive Dutch auction - the buyers set the selling price. This, of course, has prompted much speculation as to what that price will be, especially at Google IPO Swami.com, where if you can estimate the stock's opening price better than anyone else, you will win ten shares. TradeSports, an online gambling site, will let you bet whether Google's shares will rise or fall in price on the first day of trading. Slashdot's always critical readers spell out all the problems for Google IPO Swami.com and others seeking to cash in on the public's demand for easy riches. TradeSports: https://www.tradesports.com/
Google IPO Swami.com: http://www.googleiposwami.com/
Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/16/205221
The Impending NASCARificiation of Virtual Worlds
You think pop-up ads are bad? (Not that we've seen one in years, thanks to software that blocks them.) Now, marketers are set to invade virtual worlds with real-world brands. In virtual environments, opportunities for branding are limited only by the imagination of the marketers. It's one thing to have ET eat Reese's Pieces; what happens when you have individuals in a virtual world creating avatars that can become virtual billboards for brands? Your elven warrior may end up looking like a NASCAR driver and your troop transport might seem at home at Talladega. The idea is not new, even if the practice is. At least one community of air-combat simulator fans discussed this years ago. The beauty and power of this new venue are brought out most clearly in this thoughtful piece at the Social Science Research Network. It is also incredibly depressing.http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=536422
Jon Stewart's Commencement Address
Jon Stewart anchors the best fake news show on television, Comedy Central's "The Daily Show". Actually, strike that - "The Daily Show" is hands down the best news show on TV, period. Stewart's alma mater, William and Mary College in Virginia, bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate during a recent graduation ceremony. His subsequent commencement address to the assembled students is quite capable of inducing comedic convulsions and spontaneous spit takes. Our congrats to the newly minted Doctor Stewart.Jon's Speech: http://web.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3650
The Daily Show: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/
Set Your Clock for the Stockstock Film Festival
It may be too late, but if you can bang out a three-minute film over the next few weeks, you will make the June 15 deadline for submitting your opus to the Stockstock Film Festival. Stockstock challenges filmmakers to create masterpieces out of stock film footage, which it distributes equally to all contestants on MiniDV videotape. It's a film festival for editors rather than directors. Keep in mind that June 15 is the festival's submission deadline - you still need to register by June 1. We would have warned you sooner, but the time just slipped by, like the guy in the black-and-white educational film who falls on a patch of ice or a car spinning out of control that extolls the benefits of seatbelts. By the end of summer, you'll be able to see this year's winners. The festival's site has a Media section with highlights from the 2003 entries. Read the FAQ, these folks are funny. Wired had an article about a month ago.Stockstock Film Festival: http://www.stockstock.org/
Wired: http://wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63028,00.html
ONLINE CULTURE
When we mention the Spot, does it dredge up an memories? The Spot debuted June 23, 1995 - a year after NSD - and we first mentioned it a few months later in NSD 1.29. The Spot was an online attempt to mimic MTV's "The Real World", back before the insidious virus called reality television infected the major networks. The Spot was a beachhouse in Malibu, Calif. in which lived several characters who posted online journals and answered e-mail. Their lives and conflicts were so fabulous, they seemed fictional - which they were, as was the beachhouse. The Spot was a well crafted, made-up, online soap opera. Tara Hartwick, the alleged mastermind of the Spot, was "played" by Laurie Plaksin (now known as Laurie Shiers of "For Better or for Worse"). The original Spot died just after its second birthday, but a new version has just found its way online, bigger than ever. The Internet Archive has the original site on file, and discussion is ramping up at Spotfans.com.The Spot (original): http://tinyurl.com/2xovf
NSD 1.29: http://www.netsurf.com/nsd/sub/v01/nsd.95.09.02.html#BS4
Shiers: http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/betterorworse/planners/laurie.html
The Spot (new): http://www.thespot.com/
Spotfans.com: http://www.spotfans.com/index.php
Depending on whom you ask, Andy Kaufman was either a marginally weird comedian or a comedic genius so far ahead of his time that most people never got him. We don't have the space to chronicle his many exploits - try the Wikipedia entry for that - but suffice it to say that he was known for fooling and fooling with his audiences in various creative and sometimes inexplicable ways. Kaufman died in 1984, but rumors persist that his "death" was just another of his pranks and that he is still alive. Unlikely, but the monumental prank of faking his death would not have been out of character for Kaufman. A new weblog, Andy Kaufman Returns, claims to be Kaufman's and is fuelling fan frenzy. If you are one of Andy Kaufman's legion of fans, you'll enjoy this excursion into the weird reality-altering Kaufman zone.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman
Andy Kaufman Returns: http://andykaufmanreturns.blogspot.com/
Ever wonder what your teen's blog is all about? Or don't you want to know? Go ahead, the news isn't all that bad and you just might learn something David Huffaker looked at teen blogs for his master's thesis and came to solid, albeit not all that earth-shattering, conclusions. Blogs, he found, are just another medium in which teens fashion their identities. Sex and sexuality differences are not nearly as pronounced as he believed at the start. Gay male teenagers often use their blogs to come out to the world and are more likely to provide a physical address in the course of writing. Teen girls seldom reveal their location and often refer blog readers to a personal Web site. Huffaker also learned that teenagers, like adults, often abandon their blogs. At least you didn't have to read all about high school, again.
http://cct.georgetown.edu/thesesView.cfm?personID=551
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Rice University's Open-Source Courseware and Content
Joining a recent trend among universities to post classroom content to the Web, Rice University introduces a collaborative approach to online education. Arguing that the knowledge continuum is often artificially broken into chunks when delivered as educational content by traditional means, Rice presents its Connexions interface as an alternative approach to teaching and learning. In addition to education, Rice includes free authoring tools under an open-source license. The tools let freelancers compose content in XML, post it to the site, and subsequently manipulate the materials into customizable course material. Rice has big plans for the concept, and hopes to take the collaborative approach global. Current course offerings are heavy on music and electrical engineering, but there's some botany and other biology in there, as well as an anthropology course on copyright. All in all, this is excellent content that is only going to grow over time. While you won't earn college credit for taking the courses, you get the knowledge for free. We recommend the copyright course, "Text as Property/Property as Text", as a good place to start.http://cnx.rice.edu/
The average student is broke and hits the library with great reluctance. Steve, however, is not average. In fact, he is no longer a student, either, but he was until very recently (he's still waiting for his exam results). Steve didn't get much financial assistance from his family or from the government and despite working two jobs he simply couldn't keep a roof over his head while he attended NYU. He thought outside the cardboard box and decided to use NYU's warm Bobst Library as his shelter instead. He had been posting his thoughts on the experience and answering the curious on a blog and Web site. School authorities discovered his site, learned of his situation, and called him to a meeting April 20. They admirably offered to help him out. Steve has finished his studies and has a job and a book deal in the works but is still encouraging visitors to donate to the homeless. His story is incredible and worth reading - the LiveJournal blog more than the site.
http://www.homelessatnyu.com/
Dramatically establishing the beginning of modern Europe, the French Revolution was an event of such fundamental historical importance that without some knowledge of its effects, it is almost impossible to comprehend the subsequent course of world history. The Center for History and New Media's "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution" is an in-depth, multimedia introduction to this turbulent era. At the heart of the site is a series of multi-page essays that describe the causes, course, and legacies of the French Revolution. Each essay is festooned with supporting images, a glossary, and contemporary texts (personal memoirs, official reports, newspaper articles, treatises, eyewitness accounts, etc.). The site also offers a well designed multifunction search feature. The online resources on this fine Web site are also available on CD-ROM or in book form.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/index.html
A Guide to Efficiency and Recycling
Some Web sites let users accomplish tasks; most are mostly fluff to surf. The Meta Efficient site is that rare type of site: a must-visit, must-use site. The site bills itself as the guide to the most efficient (this often means both recycled and recyclable) products in the world. Who knew about the potential of kenaf-based paper? Indeed, who ever heard of kenaf? The site has articles on and links for obtaining the most environmentally friendly products in many fields. Advice is always clear, and the site has the potential to change lifestyles for the better. It's not many sites that can make that claim.http://www.reactual.com/
Baby Jeremy's Brushes with Fame
Baby Jeremy is going to be annoyed with his dad when he grows up. His father has a quest for Jeremy so long as he remains young and cute. Jeremy's dad gets famous people to pose for photographs with the tyke. This is fine now, but down the line, the teenaged Jeremy will get teased in school for posing with what will then seem like a C-list of celebrities. In the meantime, he's met and charmed celebrities as varied as Pierce Brosnan and Clifford the Dog over the last two years. Clearly, Jeremy is an advanced baby - he writes his own comments on the celebrities and how they played with him. His only consolation is that when he's older he can always look up photos of himself posing with Halle Berry, Madonna, and Kirsten Dunst. We hope he remembered to get their phone numbers for his little black book.http://www.whoisthatwithjeremy.com/
Robosaurus, Appearing Online! Online! Online!
You've probably seen Transformers, those toys that convert from a robot to, say, a truck with some creative folding and adjusting. Did you know that something like that actually exists? Robosaurus converts from a street-legal semi-trailer into a 40-foot-tall hydraulic car-nivore. It breathes smoke and fire and all that, but the real thrill for the geeks among us comes from a visit to the Robosaurus Web site and the section on how the beast is constructed and controlled. Those of you who recall something like this from "The Simpsons" are remembering Truckasaurus from "Bart the Daredevil", which Entertainment Geekly tells us is Matt Groening's favorite episode. Robosaurus did in fact inspire Truckasaurus.Robosaurus: http://www.robosaurus.com/
Entertainment Geekly: http://tinyurl.com/3xmaw
Joanne Pransky, Robopsychologist
Do robots suffer emotional problems? We don't know, but we certainly care. We also care about how we humans react to the ever-increasing number of robots in our lives. Dr. Joanne Pransky, who bills herself as the World's First Robotic Psychiatrist (it's a trademark), brings Isaac Asimov's fictional robopsychologist, Susan Calvin, to life in much of her work. Pransky's career spans the gamut of robotology, from serious academic work on human/robot relationships to marketing consultant for a robot manufacturer (Sankyo) to judging the "BattleBots" TV show. Her Web site offers a full look at her career, with an emphasis on the more spectacular robotic interactions and events.http://www.robot.md/
Perhaps you're reading a novel in which a character comes down with consumption or dropsy. Never heard of them? Check out this reference on old diseases and their names. It doesn't just provide the names in a one-to-one format; it injects discussion on the topic wherever available. It's interesting to check out the former names of some still common diseases to compare what we believe causes them to what our ancestors thought.
http://aspin.asu.edu/geneinfo/oldnames.htm
"You traded the Bluesmobile for a microphone!? Ok, I can see that." "Joliet" Jake Blues, in "The Blues Brothers", had it exactly right. Whether you're in broadcasting, music, or sound technology, or you simply have an interest in audio amplification, the microphone is an indispensable tool. This lovingly constructed online museum is a tribute to this often-overlooked accessory, with dozens of old and new samples to view and enjoy. Each microphone page has extra goodies, such as multiple views, audio samples, and downloadable instruction booklets. The contents page also features various microphone accessories, studio tours, images of celebrities with microphones, and much, much more. A tour of the various types of microphones teaches the tyro the arcania of sound patterns, mountings, frequency responses, etc., and it is all lavishly illustrated and tastefully designed, to boot. This is one of those web sites that makes you wonder what we all did before the Internet was around.
http://www.coutant.org/
Did you ever have a lunchbox with a cartoon character on it when you were a kid? Do you still have it? If so, you might want to check out the Lunch Box Pad, where fans of lunch boxes talk about their prize vintage lunchbox collections and check out what they're worth. Collectors and non-collectors alike can research the work of particular lunch-box artists and manufacturers and peruse advertisements for lunch boxes and flasks from as far back as 1952. Anyone who dismantled a Thermos (yes, it's a brand name) flask to find out how it worked will appreciate the Anatomy 101 page's explanation, with images, of all the pieces. The site also offers e-cards, television theme songs, and a screensaver. The only thing missing is the lunch.
http://www.lunchboxpad.com/index.shtml
Before computer games and online file-sharing, droves of geeky youths - well, those who could stand sunlight - would descend upon local parks and entertain themselves for hours with the simple tossing of a plastic flying disk. One brand name ruled them all: Frisbee, from Wham-O. Frisbee culture grew from novelty to full-blown international sport. Frisbee: A Collective Interactive is a site that illustrates the evolution of the Frisbee habit with images of 126 distinct disk models from the last four decades. The Frisbees here come from the World Frisbee Championships, from "Star Wars" promotions, and from McDonald's, among other sources. It seems the Frisbee is not only a high flyer, but it also carries the corporate message miles further than any billboard ad could.
http://www.superunit.net/frisbee/
The Erudite Laborer's Cries of Romance
The Erudite Laborer's Cries of Romance is based on a shallow stereotype, but we still love it. The cries of romance, aimed at passers by of a certain sex and pulchritude, ring true in their eloquence. Let Reginald Cummings, the construction worker/poet of this site, woo you with such endearments as "Indulge me, fair Persephone, while I drink from the fountain of thy visage, whose nectar lingereth like freshly poured lager!"http://www.chickenhead.com/stuff/laborer/
Despite the name, martial arts today are a sport, pretty much in the same way figure skating is. The goal is no longer to kill or disable an enemy, but to win competitions through displays of skill. Also in sync with modern culture, the skills are not called "skills", but "trickz", with the all-important z at the end indicating the level of with-it-ness. That noted, Trickz.com offers videos of some pretty amazing athletes doing some pretty amazing things. The spinning, leaping kicks are often works of art. The videos sometimes lack in technical quality, but what is depicted rarely lacks high quality.
http://www.trickz.com/videos/
FLOTSAM & JETSAM
Download an image of a cat looking at an image of a cat looking at an image of a cat, etc. Put the picture on your monitor, then grab your cat and coax it to look at the screen and snap a photo. Upload your image for the next participant. Mindblowing. Well, maybe not for the cats.http://www.privatehand.com/infinite/
Greybeards among us will remember the Pacman arcade game. The latest take on it is live action, using real people with cell phones and custom software in a game known as PacManhattan. You need ten people to play and nobody really gets eaten. Woo-hoo! Fast-paced fun!
http://pacmanhattan.com/
Yep, the Google Store even has that Google Lava Lamp you've been wanting all your life. Corporate branding at its finest. https://www.googlestore.com/
Never Put Your Picture on the Net
Some photos just grab the imagination - usually of Farksters - and get mercilessly morphed in Photoshop. Here's an example. However, the hapless kid's head on Alizee's gyrating then-underage body (we think - she's of majority now) is just disturbing.http://www.smlinks.com/sotw/why/
Get a Freakishly Long E-Mail Address
The folks at the world's longest alphabetical domain name offer a free e-mail account. Spammers everywhere quiver in shock and awe.http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/
Purportedly, these are actual statements made to a doctor by patients at a free health clinic for sexually transmitted diseases. And if they aren't, they should be.
http://www.linkydinky.com/FreeClinic.shtml
Why Perl Is Such a Versatile Programming Language
Right then - who's going to be the author of the inevitable Bottom::Spanking module? Thank you, Mona and Misty, wherever you are.http://www.eroticbpm.com/tour/models/modbios/monamisty.php
"Day After Tomorrow" Trailer, Sucky Interface
Will somebody in Los Angeles go already and tar and feather all the Flash designers of movie Web sites? This has to be one of the worst user interfaces ever. The trailer is cool, though.http://www.thedayaftertomorrow.com/
How many times has that title been used for an article on name meanings? Call us slaves to cliche.... Behind the Name lets you search for name meanings, popularity results, and the historical significance of given names from Aaliyah to Zygmunt.
http://www.behindthename.com/