cool links from Loren

Mysteries Of The CDRW and Back Ups Revealed
A review by Tom's Hardware about current data and audio CD copy protection schemes, and a review of how 4 different CDRW drives and different CD mastering software packages handle them.

All Eyes Are on You
An article from Popular Science magazine about how and where personal data is collected. This article tracks a fictitious person through an average day and shows where data is collected about him.

MailWasher
An application that allows you to delete and/or bounce spam messages from your POP3 mail account before downloading them. Looks kinda neat.

US Army Cool Stuff
Majorly cool online colouring books and games from the US Army. Indoctrinate your children early!

Leaflets dropped over Afghanistan
Actual military propaganda and such from Operation Enduring Freedom. (Warning: pictures slow to load.)

Jesus of the Week
A user-submitted batch of places that Jesus shows up - mostly consumer products, but other places too. I think this one is my favourite so far: Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.

Hecklers.com: Modern Father's Day Cards

Rebuttal to Microsoft's anti-open source propaganda
A consulting firm funded in part by Microsoft has (surprise!) come out with a study that denounces the use of open source software. The link above is a rebuttal to each of the (admittedly weak) points that the study brings up.

The Dilbert Hole
Dilbert as you've never seen him before. This series originally appeared on rotten.com a while back. Similar to The Dysfunctional Family Circus - take an existing cartoon and edit in much more disturbing dialogue. Check 'em out before they're forced to be taken down..

Quoteland
A large repository of quotations. They even have them arranged by topic/occasion that you need a thoughtful-sounding quote for.