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Thursday, July 10, 2003
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Linux Reconstructing Tree of Life: "Demeter is the name of the American Museum of Natural History's supercomputer. Built by biologist Ward Wheeler from off-the-shelf parts, the Linux cluster is now ranked the 107th-fastest computer in the world on the Top 500 supercomputers list. [...] Funded by the National Science Foundation, the project is attempting to construct a pattern of relationships that biologists believe links all of Earth's present and past species -- from the smallest microbe to the largest vertebrate that existed during Earth's 4 billion-year history."
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Best Spam Ever: "Dimensional Warp Generator Needed [...] Greetings, We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply. I'm offering $5,000 US dollars just for referring a vender which is (Actually RELIABLE in providing the below equipment) Contact details of vendor required [...]"[Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
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Foreign language spam - it's a problem: "New milestone in my Internet life -- I have just received my very first piece of spam in Spanish." [kasia in a nutshell] I have been receiving foreign-language (English) spam for a long time. Fortunately, there is little spam in Finnish.
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Potter's magic points to NY Times on A.S. Byatt vs. Harry Potter: "[S]ome of Ms. Rowling's adult readers are simply reverting to the child they were when they read the Billy Bunter books, or invested Enid Blyton's pasteboard kids with their own childish desires and hopes." [Boing Boing Blog > The Aardvark Speaks]
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Camera Phones Incite Bad Behavior: "Cell phones with digital cameras have spread throughout Asia, and with them have come reports of people snapping shots of books and magazines in lieu of buying them, and others sneaking photos up women's skirts and down into bathroom stalls." [Wired News]
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New site spoofs PayPal to get billing information: "A new Web site spoofs the PayPal Inc. online payment site and attempts to trick PayPal customers into divulging sensitive account and billing information. The fake Web site is the latest example in what security experts say is a rising trend of "brand spoofing" scams. PayPal customers are directed to the site, www.paypal-billingnetwork.net, by an e-mail message that appears to come from the Mountain View, California, company." [MacCentral]
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