A cool Linux MPEG player

Clueless journalist's attempt to prove Why OpenBSD Will Never Be as Secure as Linux and his flaming death
flaming death
flaming death
flaming death
flaming death

It turns out that the aforementioned journalist had died the death of a thousand flames before, when he announced The End of SSL and SSH

Checkpoint Firewall 1 vs IPFilter
The message is somewhat dated, but I'd be a lot of the criticism still applies.

Zark for the Thing King! in The Paging Game

Dennis Ritchie, a creator of C and UNIX, interviewed in LinuxWorld.

Another interview with him is available in RealAudio format.

The ANSI C99 standard is the latest C language standard.

What if "The Matrix" was about real hackers?

A new study shows the German public was fully aware of the Holocaust as it happened.

A testament to the efficacy of the US Patent system:

Smucker's sues over infringement of its peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich patent

U.S. Patent 6,004,596 contains such gems as: "first bread layer having a first perimeter surface coplanar to a contact surface" and its careful legalistic delineation "wherein said first filling" is "comprised of peanut butter" and a "second filling is comprised of a jelly."

A funny, odd, and frequently disturbing series of Japanese comic characters. More here.

European Art Brut

An interesting international argument over the International Space Station.
Science in space... Russian vodka... Mexican TRUCK nuclear weapon delivery systems... and a good time for all.

Asian Spider Wrestling

Who ever thought there were so many ways to bake a potato? www.bigspud.com has lots of Usenet threads on baking, boiling, roasting, microwaving, and pretty much anything else you can do to a potato. Oh, and then there are all of the potato types. Truely a great find.

Kung-fu action like you've never seen it before!
(Thanks to Joel for this one)

Have a happy Easter onion!

Interactive Fiction is alive and well. Read the FAQ, then look at how a game is made, in any of ten authoring systems.

Call of Chtulhu, will soon become a computer game, with a sanity system... As your character witnesses horror after horror, he slowly goes insane, in the true Lovecraftian tradition. "This can have subtle effects--perhaps you start hearing voices in your ears, perhaps every shadow looks like a horrific creature, or maybe you start hallucinating too."

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity" -- A.E.Newton

Check out the cool robots at Robomenu.
(Note: Click on "sorted by robot" or "sorted by builder" in the left frame.)