cool links from Loren

How To Block Ads & Web Bugs Without Extra Software
A regularly-updated list of servers that serve up banner ads, which you can add to your local hosts file and point to a non-working address (say, 127.0.0.1 maybe).

Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother
This New York Times article (registration required) tells how one man has figured out a way to essentially defeat security cameras. Very clever...

The LovePC
One of the most hilarious case mods I've seen in a while.

StrokeIt mouse gesture recognition software
Mouse gestures are a feature most recently implemented in the web browser Opera. (They are very handy once you get used to them.) This is a link to a ZDnet article about mouse gestures, and the link above to StrokeIt (heh) allows you to program mouse gestures for use in other Windows applications. (I've found myself using the mouse gestures from Opera in Internet Explorer out of habit; now I could install this software to make IE understand them..)

American Military Operation Name Generating Device