Journal: News & Comment

Links of interest (2004-09-15):

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These have been accumulating for a few weeks:

• A 102-year-old woman has never been outside Jefferson County, Indiana.
  
  
• A few reasons why "Digital Rights Management" (DRM) sucks—not even mentioning everyone's likely inability to get at DRM-locked data in 10 or 15 or 20 years.
  
  
• Sales and marketing are neither one thing, nor the same thing.
  
  
• Apple's secret new computer (in 1984).
  
  
• Unpatched Windows PCs only last 20 minutes after first being connected to the Internet before being compromised by nasty software—that's twice as fast as a year ago.
  
  
• Web development mistakes.
  
  
• The science of word recognition.
  
  
• Top 25 censored news stories of 2005 in the U.S.
  
  
• "The US is not winning the war on terror. Al-Qaeda also has by no means won. But across a whole range of objectives, al-Qaeda has accomplished more of its goals than the US has of its."
  
  
• The Eyetrack III study shows how people view and use web pages, by tracking where their eyes look.
  
  
• What's so great about BBEdit 8?

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