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Software and Programming

JPEG of death

New Scientist: Article: Software bug raises spectre of ‘JPEG of death’.
Microsoft pushed a Windows update on this about a week ago. Now, Slashdot reports that someone actually created a sample JPEG-based exploit (an image that contains a virus that installs remote access software on your PC when read by vulnerable software).

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Software and Programming

Geek links: screen, CSS, tables and trees

Some geek links:

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Comics

Comics To Make Love To

Derek Kirk Kim’s Lowbright – Comics To Make Love To has a news/journal page, but without permanent links (so I can’t link properly to his comic about going to see Harold and Kumar with his mother, or his ComicCon experiences). No RSS feed either, so you actually have to go read it yourself.
[ found on some link log somewhere ]

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Resources

Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidi

Devil Worship: Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz by Isya Joseph (1919) is a book about the Yezidi (previously mentioned on this blog as Yazidi) faith.
[ via Uncle Bear]

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short Software and Programming

The fine points of text mangling.

How to Write Badly, by Gerald Grow. Probably a fine example of the afflictions he discusses in How Computers Cause Bad Writing.