Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, September 6, 2004

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We're not in Lake Wobegon anymore: "How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk?" [via New Media Musings]


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Is Encryption Doomed? "It's not often that results from conferences on mathematics make the news, but that's precisely what happened last month at the annual Crypto conference in Santa Barbara, CA when researchers from France, Israel, and China all showed that they had discovered flaws in a widely used algorithm called MD5." [Privacy Digest]


[Item Permalink] Finns vote for Kerry -- Comment()
Betavote.com: "What if the whole world could vote in the U.S. presidential election?"

The Finnish results are interesting: currently 6 % for Bush, 93 % for Kerry.