Artistic Style looks like a cool tool for those times when you inherit code that doesn’t follow the indenting style which you prefer.


Declan McCullagh follows up today on yesterday’s USA Today story about government claims that terrorists are using steganography to conceal messages on the Internet. You can always count on McCullagh to fill in the gaps when stories like this break.


Voter.com has bit the dust. Too bad, they ran a pretty good site.


Dan Gillmor brings up a very serious privacy concern about Amazon.com’s new Honor System program in his column. When you visit a page that contains a “donate through the Honor System” button that’s served up by Amazon.com, your Amazon.com cookie is sent back to their server, letting them know which sites you’re surfing. If their Honor System program becomes pervasive, they’ll be able to compile a dossier of sites you visit, even if you never donate to any of them. Yuck.


Following up on an item from the distant past, I finally have my CD ripping situation sorted out. I’m using Exact Audio Copy to rip the CDs. You can save them in MP3 format with EAC if you have an MP3 codec installed, I’m using Radium MP3 codec. This isn’t the easiest way to do it, but I usually prefer doing things the hard way if there’s seemingly some benefit.