One thing I love about the hacking community is that it’s wonderfully self-referential. For example, why do all programming books and manuals start with a program that prints “Hello world!”? Because the first example program in C printed “Hello world!”. Similarly, over the years there have been a number of fine papers written about things that are “considered harmful.” Go To Statement Considered Harmful, by Edsger W. Dijkstra, is the one that started it all.
A useful resource for Web site administrators: The Web Robots Database.
Talk of breaking up Microsoft into multiple companies which have the right to distribute all of Microsoft’s products seems to be on the rise. A Washington Post story covers some of the potential remedies being considered if the government wins its case against Microsoft.
Found through a serendipity search: a collection of editorial cartoons about Microsoft. By the way, this one is a classic.
In honor of Valentine’s Day yesterday: the results of a Fox News poll on love. What does the poll show? That most people lie to pollsters.