Month: May 2001

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General

Cheese beats crackers. A “helpful”

Cheese beats crackers. A “helpful” virus called the cheese worm is making its way around the web checking computers for vulnerabilities and closing them. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Whoever wrote that worm demonstrated some intruiging viral thinking. Not only does it use viral methods to fight viruses, it also used viral ideas – memes – to fight other memes: By calling the virus “Cheese”, s/he’s training reporters to call the people that break into computers “Crackers” instead of “Hackers”.

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Comics

Zenith is back! According to

Zenith is back! According to the upcoming issue of Previews, Titan are finally reissuing this 80’s British serial about a pop-star superhero, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell. Better yet, they’re going to reissue the entire run, and follow it with a collection of the final, never-before collected sequence in the series.

This Rocks.

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short Software and Programming

This is cute – Perl

This is cute – Perl 6 design suggestions, short and to the point: We’ve got a golden opportunity here to turn Perl into whatever on earth we like. Let’s not take it.

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General short

Another article from Britannica, this

Another article from Britannica, this one about Greek rape myths.

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General short

Greek Fire in the Civil

Greek Fire in the Civil War? – weird stuff you come across when searching the Britannica site.