More Eazel hype: Andrew Leonard gets a demo of Nautilus from CEO Mike Boich. Of course, since this is the open source world, you can get your own sneak preview at nautilus.eazel.com. Unfortunately, the screenshots are rather dated, and mere mortals probably won’t be downloading and building the latest CVS snapshot.


The recent G7 meeting that President Clinton attended for about half a day cost 750 million bucks to put on. As the author of the article points out, you could end famine in some parts of the world with that kind of money. What a joke.


I’ve seen a million pointers to articles like this one talking about secret CIA papers posted to a Web site, but none of the articles have links to the Web site. The documents are at cryptome.org (it seems to be down right now but there’s a mirror here).


Bruce Schneier’s latest Crypto-Gram has a short article on SOAP and firewalls, explaining why using one to subvert the other is a bad idea.


Gamasutra has an excellent article on cheating in online games. It’s thoroughly researched and comprehensive.