Forbes Magazine is in trouble for running Microsoft ads that look too much like real editorial content. I’ve seen these lame “Microsoft Daily News” ads at the New York Times before. The version of the ad on the Forbes site really does look like editorial content, nowhere does it say “paid advertisement,” and it’s nicely integrated into the design of the page. If they didn’t want it to look like unbiased news coverage of Microsoft, instead of public relations crap, then why would they package it that way?

Web Review has an article on Rebol, an up and coming scripting language that’s got easy to read syntax and powerful features specific to the Internet. The language was created by Carl Sassenrath, the father of the cool but ultimately doomed Amiga computer.

A couple of major security holes in Windows have been discovered recently. The first is a Java bug that allows malicious applets to execute any code they want on your system. It affects users of IE 4, IE 5, Outlook, Outlook Express, and the version of Eudora that utilizes IE to render HTML mail. The other security problems involve Active X, which should probably be classified as one giant security hole into and of itself.

I should have noticed a long time ago that Phil Greenspun published an article about managing Web projects with CVS.

Mozilla M9 is on the wire.

My SQL book is now available at Amazon.com for pre-order. You know you want to go ahead and reserve your copy today.

I’m quoted in this Jamais Cascio article about EverQuest.

National Geographic and Wired not doing it for you any more? Perhaps some of these interesting publications should find their way to your coffee table.

I wish I lived in Wisconsin, just so I could vote for Senator Russ Feingold. Nobody who’s actually managed to get elected has done more to combat the rampant, legal corruption of the United States government than Feingold. The linked article discusses his tactic of listing big money contributors to pieces of legislation when they come up for debate.

Amazon.com’s Purchase Circles are a good reason not to order books from the any more, but they’re fascinating from a voyeuristic standpoint. For example, the best selling book among Microsoft employees is none other than Bill Gates’ 470 page marketing brochure, Business @ the Speed of Thought.