Security Alert: UCSB bans Windows NT/2K : “The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) recently banned student computers running Windows NT or Windows 2000 from the campus network, to which students connect in the school’s dormitories. According to this notice, the operating systems were banned because “we have to consider the overall health of our network when dealing with vulnerable operating systems, virus protection, and network security threats.” ”

new.com.au: “A romantic beach interlude for two American tourists almost ended in disaster when the rising tide at Rose Bay swallowed their vehicle for 15 hours.”

BBC: “The inventor of the Tomb Raider computer game is seeking more women to work as testers at its Derby headquarters.
Core Design is launching an Angel of Darkness version of its hit Lara Croft game, but so far no women have applied to work as testers for the project.”

Age: “The Victorian Government is refusing to disclose how much taxpayers’ money it used to subsidise a Melbourne concert by former Beatle Paul McCartney”

I didn’t read the article, but this made me laugh: (The Age) “At the recent Venice Film Festival, there were audible gasps as a decidedly paunchy Tom Hanks arrived at the press conference for Road To Perdition.”

Age: “First complete Linux distribution for Xbox released”

An investigation of chips/crisps flavours available here is quite scary.
Some samples, by brand. Walkers Marmite Yeast Extract Flavour Crisps
Walkers Pickled Onion Flavour Crisps (I’d actually try these)
More from Walkers: Beef & Onion (they’re vegan! but what vegan wants to eat meat flavours?), Heinz Tomato Ketchup, Coronation Chicken (I’ve yet to figure out what this is), Chargrilled Steak, Chip Shop Curry.
Golden Wonder: Rib ‘N’ Saucy, Sausage & Tomato, Steak & Onion, Brannigans: Smoked Ham and Pickle, Roast Beef and Mustard.
Apparently there used to be ‘hedgehog‘ flavour crisps.
It’s also a good excuse to link to Tokyo vs London chips/crisps. Chipworld was immensely helpful to my research.

php vs asp and the newer 7 Reasons Why PHP is Better than ASP

Anti-war petitions: http://www.moveon.org/nowarworld/ and http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=13827