Friday, October 25, 2002

Impressions of a Young Mac Geek. Ellen Feiss, the star of Apple's Switch advertising campaign, was the subject of a look-alike contest in the Netherlands. See the gallery for the remarkable results. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 5:14:41 PM

Domestic violence. The media is fixating on John Allen Muhammad's Muslim beliefs. But the most relevant fact about him could be his record of terrorizing his family members -- and how that didn't stop him from getting his hands on guns. [Salon.com] 5:11:52 PM

Googlism [Sam Ruby] This is just pulling semi coherent data from google result contexts, but it's cool anyways. 5:03:51 PM

Tax debate spin control Brad DeLong takes out the scalpel and fillets Sen. Chuck Grassley's letter to the editor of the New York Times defending the fairness of the Bush tax cuts (the first sentences below are Grassley; italics is DeLong reading the mind of the letter-writer):   Some observers claim that 40 percent of last year's tax cuts went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. The Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official, unbiased source, says the top 1 percent will receive 27 percent of the income tax cuts [see how I snuck "income tax" into this sentence? All but the most alert one percent of readers will believe that I am claiming that the 40 percent number is flat-out wrong. *Snort*!] [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 4:52:58 PM

Implantable Chip, On Sale Now. No sooner does the ink dry on the FDA's curiously quick approval of an implantable human chip than the company that produces it launches a national marketing campaign. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News] 12:34:28 PM

Tim Bray on XML in Office 11. This came up on the XML-Dev list as well as /., but Tim Bray spent some time looking at the 'native' XML format MS is promising for Office 11, they are baroque, but they are XML. [More Like This WebLog] Yay? 12:06:07 PM

Kerberos bug bites. Authentication system in stack buffer overflow risk [The Register] 11:56:59 AM