] EasyNews, a provider of Usenet newsgroups, said it has
] identified two JPEG images that take advantage of a
] previously identified flaw in the way Microsoft software
] handles graphics files. Windows users could have their
] computers infected merely by opening one of those Trojan
] horse images.

The sample toolkit is interesting. Code in the wild, more so.

Trojan horse exploits image flaw | CNET News.com

] We report a reversible liquid-solid transition upon
] heating of a simple solution composed of a-cyclodextrine
] (alpha-CD), water, and 4-methylpyridine. These solutions
] are homogeneous and transparent at ambient temperature
] and solidify when heated to temperatures between 45° and
] 75°. Quasielastic and elastic neutron scattering show
] that molecular motions are slowed down in the solid and
] that crystalline order is established. The solution
] "freezes on heating." This process is fully reversible,
] on cooling the solid melts. A rearrangement of hydrogen
] bonds is postulated to be responsible for the observed
] phenomenon.

...Dude.

A Liquid that Goes Solid when Heated

] Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In
] fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled
] by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing
] criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However
] there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness
] to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous
] stupidity of many things you've said here that actually
] touches my proletarian and Democratic soul. Also I use
] and enjoy Amazon and I do read the reviews of other
] people's books in many fields. In sum, I believe in what
] happens here. And so, I speak. First off, let me say that
] this is addressed only to some of you, who have posted
] outrageously negative comments here, and not to all. You
] are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective.
] Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting
] your own limitations on it.

Anne Rice doesn't like people trashing her latest novel on Amazon.

But really, she should know that regarding criticism -- and the inevitable trolls -- the only way to win is not to play at all
(hers is comment between 211-220 when sorted oldest-first if this link doesn't work)

Amazon.com: Books: Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles)

] The following chart plots every single piece of spam and
] virus email that arrived at my work email address since
] April 1997. Blue dots are spam and red dots are email
] viruses. The horizontal axis is time, and the vertical
] axis is size of mail (on a logarithmic scale). Darker
] dots represent more messages. (Messages larger than 1MB
] have been treated as if they were 1MB.)

A visual history of spam (and virus) email

] A team of Dutch and American surgeon claim they are ready
] to perform a face transplant, a procedure considered
] controversial by some medical ethicists.
]
] "There arrives a point in time when the procedure should
] simply be done. We submit that that time is now,"
] the doctors wrote in The American Journal of Bioethics.

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Surgeons Ready to Perform Face Transplant

] Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron ("Monster")
] suffered an injury while filming the Paramount/MTV movie,
] "Aeon Flux."

I didn't know this was getting made into a live-action movie.

Charlize Theron Injured on Aeon Flux Movie Set

] German scientists have shown that the changeover from
] free-flowing traffic to a traffic jam (in which cars on a
] highway are greatly slowed or halted, at least
] temporarily) conforms to the well-known physics of phase
] transitions, an example of which is the transition from
] water to ice. In other words, traffic jams are not random
] patterns, but are deterministic in nature; that is, when
] a parameter exceeds a threshold value--such as the flux
] of cars--then local perturbations can grow, possibly
] leading to jams, analogous to the nucleating effect of
] tiny ice grains in a body of water being frozen. Once
] formed the jam moves along the highway as if it were a
] kind of "solid," with identifiable edges and with a
] "vapor" of comparatively free cars in front of and behind
] it. The information gained in this sort of research, the
] researchers believe, might lead to more accurate traffic
] forecasts and could be used in future "intelligent"
] transport systems.

The physics of traffic jams

] But now, according to several groups of researchers in
] America and Germany, there is something that drivers can
] do to take back control over the roads. Get adaptive
] cruise control. And, of course, use it.

Economist.com | Traffic jams

] At this point, the less l33t people would generally give
] up and either 1) do something else or 2) look deep into
] goatse's anus with a 10-yard stare.. The more l33t
] victims would launch ethereal and try to figure out what
] was going on.. Eventually they would mumble something
] about "rogue APs" (WRONG!) or ARP poisoning (WRONG!) or
] DNS poisoning (WRONG!) and do something else..

Goatse at Defcon -- brought to you by airpwn

] Three banks were robbed while President Bush and
] Democratic nominee John Kerry were holding events just
] blocks from each other Wednesday morning.

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