"Two new Radio themes from Bryan Bell, inspired by Movable Type's templates."  [Scripting News] 

VeriSign slapped with second unfair practices suit.  Suit alleges VeriSign engaged in unfair marketing to steal customers  [InfoWorld: Top News] 

Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection  [Boing Boing Blog] 

Lawyers bid on eBay for evidence  [The smelly feet] 

"Do you seem to feel anxious lately? Well answer a few questions..."  [sysrick.com < MetaFilter] 

Alwin Hawkins:  "Good morning, everybody. I know I'm coming late to the discussion, but I thought I'd shoot my mouth off here...  I thought Free For Life meant Free For Life..." 

Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar  [not quite random < Joel Spolsky]

Nize... 

'Soft Talk: - Microsoft finally alerts Hotmail users.  If this were a Quinn Martin television production, the title might be "Hotmail: Epilogue.''  [Technology]

Two months after the discovery -- perhaps hoping people would forget by now-- Microsoft Corp. finally coughed up a notice last Wednesday telling Hotmail users that, oh, by the way, it shares Hotmail addresses and other data with Web sites that use its Passport log-in system.

Reading between the lines uncovers this:  "Though Microsoft says it doesn't sell data..., other Web sites using Passport are free to do so..." and this long overdue alert finally tells the Hotmail users how to opt-out of something they were opted-in to without actually having a say in it before now.  This kinda stuff really stinks, if you ask me.  It's prompted me to create topic.privacy which will pull together some of my previous posts on such things with privacy-related news moving forward. 

Speaking of todays pick, I just discovered this...
A Wrench the Size of Delaware. Toleration is necessary for living in an apartment building, even if your neighbor isn't of sound mind and humor. Paul Ford learns how a neighbor's problems can swiftly become his own. [The Morning News - Features]

...and this. 

My Busy Day.  most amusing...  [Coolstop Daily Pick] 

John Robb:  "A Very Scary Company.  One thing I wish the EFF should do.  Why don't they blow the trumpet on comScore?  This company has tricked millions of people into "download accelerators" and other trojan horse software that tracks their traffic, credit card usage (it actually captures numbers), and more -- all in the name of so-called research..." 

July 2002

 


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