Great Hackers

Some comments from Paul Graham on the responses to Hackers and Painters.

MailFrontier Phishing IQ Test

This is an interesting little test to see if you can spot legitimate emails from fakes trying to get your password/credit card details (eg from banking sites).

Digital manipulation of photos

Some nice before and after shots of digitally manipulated photos used in advertising: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Don't believe anything you see...

Dutch auctions

The Degree Confluence Project

Load Testing Gmail

I doubt anyone ever did this kind of thing to Hotmail...

Terrorism Laws: ASIO, the Police and You

The booklet from the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network on your rights and responsibilities under Australian anti-terrorism laws.

CD settlement delivers duds

To prevent the companies from dumping unwanted inventory, lawyers for the states came up with a formula based on how much time artists spent on the Billboard charts, ... But he conceded, "it may be hard to believe looking at the selections."

JWZ - CensorZilla

The programmers look like they were as pissed-off with Netscape as the users!

The Project Apollo Image Gallery

Lots of very nice photos from the Apollo 11 missions, which were 35 years ago, as of a few days back.