What everybody knew already: Diebold voting machines are easily hacked

Classic essay by Vannevar Bush - shared bookmarks predicted in 1945 Oddly prescient, this essay by the father of the U.S. National Science Foundation is deservedly a classic. He speculates about a yet-to-be-invented machine which he calls a "memex" and describes it in a way which sounds a lot like a personal computer. Missing from the picture, but easy to imagine, is the Internet. But the image of scientists making "trails" of annotations and sharing them with each other is closely matched by ... surfers collecting bookmarks, tagging them using ad hoc tags, and sharing them via the internet. The stuff about the "memex" is only towards the end - skip to section 5 if you find the first pages boring. As is my habit, I have linked to the "printer friendly" version of the article. The authoritative location is . There are also various more or less legitimate copies all over the net. Oh, he misspelled "Hollerith". Sorry, couldn't resist noticing.

Sheesh, people just DO NOT GET password security '"Our policy is that employees safeguard their passwords and access codes so we can ensure privacy and confidentiality for our patients. A violation of that policy can result in termination." Nelson said she knew the policy but says that workers sharing log-ins isn't uncommon.' The woman still wants to appeal her termination.

Usability guru Jef Raskin died in February of 2005 You'd think THEY would have thought of giving the page a sensible title, but nooo.

A program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. 'SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005!' They're asking for donations so that they could actually go and, er, perform at the conference.

Steve Mallett's oreillynet.com announcement of de.lirio.us

Jamie Zawinski's web site (the Lucid guy, the Netscape guy, the XScreensaver guy) This is one of the sites I get back to again and again. The mix of deep insights into computing, weird anecdotes, and general attitude is just right (or you will hate it from the first minute).

First .au spammer convicted under 2004 law

Bios of some Internet visionaries and founding fathers

The creator of C and the cocreator of Unix