Homeland security

If you are trapped with no hope of being found, amuse yourself in your final moments with shadow puppets.

http://www.safenow.org/

Why DRM won't ever work

"Believing in a DRM business model is like joining Star Fleet security, putting on your red shirt, and volunteering to beam down to the new unexplored plant with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Someone will be coming back from that mission, it's just not likely to be the security guard. Always a true engineer, Scotty had the good sense to stay safely on board the ship."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6189011.html?tag=nl.e550

Deep Hole Found on Mars

"Not only are natural caves of biological interest, Boston says, they could also serve as habitats for future human explorers - nifty underground housing to protect against the high-radiation environment of Mars. Additionally, caves offer easier subsurface access for direct exploration and drilling, she suggests, and may provide extractable minerals, gases, and ices."


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070605_mars_hole.html

After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly

"Ubuntu's installation is so easy, and maintaining it once it's installed is so simple that Ubuntu nearly falls into your machine like a ying to the hardware's yang."

http://linux.sys-con.com/read/382946.htm

Lackluster Vista adoption results in glut of DRAM

"it appears that the glut was caused by DRAM makers ramping up to meet the anticipated huge demand for DRAM that Vista was supposed to fuel, and which never did materialize."

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=558

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/dram-chipmakers-suffer-worst-quarter/story.aspx?guid=%7BB15928E6-7034-4FAB-86C0-45CBA08AAD68%7D

Windows Vista Test Drive

http://www.windowsvistatestdrive.com/

(This does not appear to work with Firefox)

New York becomes latest state to ponder ODF

"New York has become the latest U.S. state to ponder whether to use open standards for government document formats, though the move is not necessarily good news for proponents of the ISO standard ODF (Open Document Format)."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/07/New-York-becomes-latest-state-to-ponder-ODF_1.html

UK Government give response to OpenDocument online petition

The UK (Westminster) Government has given a response to the petition on a petition calling on the UK Government to use the OpenDocument format for the storage of documents.

http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2007/06/uk-government-give-response-to.html

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/06/10-downing-street-talks-document.html