Users of Internet Explorer version 5.5 or 6.0 might want to download the latest security patch. Without it a malicious user could potentially ... gain unauthorized access to a user's cookies and potentially modify the values contained in them ... this could allow personal information to be compromised.
Here's an interesting article about the importance of purposing web content as a navigational tool.
Economists and pundits agree that the U.S. economy is going through a rocky stretch, but why? And how can we fix it? In this column from the Washington Monthly, Karen Kornbluh looks at some significant trends in the last year that may have alot to do with the economic slowdown, and what might be done to turn things around.
A List Apart offers up an intruiging article on how the style of Flash animations has begun to creep into other media. This article does a better job of describing the Flash aesthetic than actually demonstrating its influences, but it is interesting none the less.
Lauded political cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall has spent some time in central Asia, including a stretch last year in Turkmenistan (as a guest of the U.S. State Department, no less). In this article on AlterNet.Org, an independent media support project, he paints a fascinating picture of life in the region, and then gives some insight into how it may be linked to current U.S. military efforts.
This summary chart of the surveillance provisions in the proposed new U.S. anti-terrorism legislation is useful, regardless of your opinion on the bills.
(Seeing the proposed legislation laid out clearly does make one question obvious: Why are so many of these new surveillance provisions directed at American citizens, when the participants in the tragic events of September 11th were all foreign nationals?)
Did September 11th, 2001 mark the beginning of a new era in world affairs? In this article from the New York Review of Books, Harvard professor Stanley Hoffmann discusses the geopolitical changes the WTC tragedy may be triggering or bringing to light.
Engineers at the University of West England's Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory are hard at work developing a robot that will hunt slugs.
A worker on-site offers a first-hand account of the current state of activity in the World Trade Center disaster zone. A telling detail giving some perspective on the magnitude of the destruction: three weeks after the tragedy, with crews working around the clock to clear the rubble, there are still piles of rubble eight stories high where WTC buildings 1 and 2 once stood.
A serious gee whiz factor! Sony introduces a new 2x4x3-inch camera that records movies, takes still photos, and allows you to send e-mail and browse the web, all over a wireless connection using the new Bluetooth secure communication format. Dick Tracy would be envious.