Anna Nicole Smith's Autopsy

I'm sure that this is in poor taste, but CNN posted Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy on the web. Out of sheer prurient interest, I checked it out. It's pretty twisted.

Most Digital Content Not Stable

Further rationale for doing analog backups of select material, e.g. photos to negatives or slides. Gotta keep collecting these articles....

File Sharing a Threat to Children and National Security

Actually, yes, it is. Parents these days don't teach their kids right and wrong, and file-sharing is definitely in the gray area. You just know that even 50% of files swapped are legal! Plus, less than bright employees could put such applications on government machines, and misconfigure them such that confidential material gets shared. (Of course top secret machines shouldn't be connected to the Internet, but still.)

I haven't read the paper yet, though. It's rather long.

The No Asshole Rule

Now this looks like an interesting book. There used to be an asshole in my group at work, but fortunately, he's gone now. Now only if my job were better....

Wisdom from Chris Rock

"Those are the choices in life: You can be married and bored or single and lonely," Rock said in his 2004 HBO special "Never Scared." "Ain't no happiness nowhere."

Amen, brother. ;-)