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Book Reviews

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

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Macworld review: Acrobat 6 Professional: "With all the features of the Standard version and then some, Acrobat 6.0 Professional is a dream come true for graphic artists and prepress pros. But it may leave its secondary market, engineers and architects, stranded by the side of the road." [MacCentral]

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Ayn Rand: "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

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Windows Is 'Insecure By Design,' Says Washington Post: "Between the Blaster worm and the Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these outbreaks -- just like in earlier 'malware' epidemics. This is not a coincidence." [Privacy Digest]

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JD Lasica's series on participatory journalism: "JD Lasica has put together a fine series of articles on participatory journalism. JD is also editor of our upcoming paper on the subject we're writing for New Directions for News. You can read the first half of that project here along with a forward by Dan Gillmor. We'll be posting the entire paper here soon. [...] Also, checkout the Slashdot discussion on JD's articles." [Hypergene MediaBlog]

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The BBC frees its archives: "The BBC has announced it will make available all of its radio and broadcast archives for free (about 80 years worth). This effort is astounding not just in its magnitude but in its foresight." [Hypergene MediaBlog]

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Sobig.F worm could have originated on Usenet: "The Sobig.F worm, which is estimated to have infected more than 100,000 computers and generated tens of millions of e-mails, could have begun life disguised as a pornographic picture in a posting to a handful of Usenet newsgroups." [InfoWorld: Top News]