Hmmmm? Bill Gates must read Gilmore too. Microsoft has given PC makers the go-ahead to ship Windows XP as much as one full month before the operating system's official Oct. 25 launch date, sources close to four major PC makers told CNET News.com

Feds should force Microsoft into showdown over Windows XP :Dan Gilmore... Perhaps it's beginning to dawn on federal and state antitrust officials that Microsoft is playing for keeps. The company's unsurprising decision Tuesday to appeal its antitrust conviction to the Supreme Court looks more like a stalling tactic than anything else. But it comes at a crucial time -- on the eve of the release of Windows XP, the linchpin in Microsoft's plan to extend its monopoly into new areas of commerce.

BadBlue Server Software... It's FREE -- Search other PCs. Share files with others. Serve live web pages on your PC. Turn your PC into a powerful, file-sharing web server. BadBlue is a tiny, free download that lets you share files, serve powerful web applications (like PHP) and search other PCs (see screen shots, take a quick tutorial or read user testimonials).

BadBlue Server Software... It's FREE -- Search other PCs. Share files with others. Serve live web pages on your PC. Turn your PC into a powerful, file-sharing web server. BadBlue is a tiny, free download that lets you share files, serve powerful web applications (like PHP) and search other PCs (see screen shots, take a quick tutorial or read user testimonials).

A Violent Sun Affects the Earth's Ozone... “A lot of impacts on ozone, like those caused by humans, are very subtle and happen over long periods of time,” says Jackman. “But when these solar proton events occur you can see immediately a change in the atmosphere.”

A Violent Sun Affects the Earth's Ozone... “A lot of impacts on ozone, like those caused by humans, are very subtle and happen over long periods of time,” says Jackman. “But when these solar proton events occur you can see immediately a change in the atmosphere.”

Upphafssíða... Check out the drop down menu on this site for a list of cams from all over Iceland. They offer a glimpse of a country that not many of us have seen.

NOVA Online... You can watch many Nova programs in full, right on their Web site. The episodes are divided into chapters so you can skip to the parts that interest you most.

AT&T Labs Speech Technologies -- has a demo of their speech software. It puts a whole ne spin on 'HELLO WORLD'.

PhysicsWeb Features - The physics of the Web... All previous Internet-related research concentrated on designing better protocols and faster components. More recently, an increasing number of scientists have begun to ask an unexpected question: what exactly did we create?

CNN.com - Study: Multitasking is counterproductive - August 5, 2001 -- Multitasking is a managerial buzz-concept these days, a post-layoff corporate assumption that the few can be made to do the work of many. But newly released results of scientific studies in multitasking indicate that carrying on several duties at once may, in fact, reduce productivity, not increase it.

PERCobol COBOL Compiler bridging capabilities of COBOL with Java technology for client/server and WEB... PERCobol is a COBOL compiler that bridges the strength and power of COBOL with the features and functions of Java. PERCobol is a full function COBOL compiler allowing programmers to make use of the existing skills and business logic to build applications with features only present in Java. It understands most HP COBOL II syntax. This means that it will allow you to continue to develop in HP COBOL on the 3000 for as long as you like with the knowledge that the code is portable. It also means that you will have to make minimal changes to existing code in order to use it on your target platform(s).

GM Tests Fuel Cell Power Generator — The same fuel cell technology the automakers are developing in hopes of producing pollution-free vehicles may also be the answer to preventing power blackouts, a General Motors Corp. executive said Tuesday. In a statement distributed to reporters at an industry conference here, Larry Burns, GM vice president for research and development planning, said for the past six months the automaker has been testing a stationary fuel cell-powered generator at its Rochester, N.Y. research facility. The fuel cell generator GM is testing extracts hydrogen from either natural gas, methane or gasoline. The hydrogen is then mixed with oxygen from the air and the fuel cell converts it to electricity.

Scientist gives dinosaurs a nose job... Turning up his nose at a century of conventional wisdom, a scientist studying dinosaur fossils and the physiology of their closest living relatives has determined the creatures’ nostrils were perched near the end of their snouts and not toward the top of their heads. The research in Friday’s issue of the journal Science represents a fundamental change in the way scientists view dinosaurs — not only in their outward appearance but in several important traits.

CSIRO Team Brings Back Deep Ocean Life Sample... Bismarck Sea - May 9, 2000 - A huge undersea chimney, laced with gold and other minerals and swarming with remarkable lifeforms has been recovered from the seabed in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, by the CSIRO Research Vessel Franklin.

Flying A Ranch Arabians-Live Foal Cam ... View the latest arrivals at the Fying A Ranch. At this posting the view is of Beau's Dancer.

Catch a sure-fire meteor show Cosmic dust, some of which has been wafting through space since the American Civil War, is renewing a summer ritual by slamming into Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the night sky with shooting stars whose numbers are building to a peak on Aug. 12.

Are You A Robot?... Do you sometimes think you might not be human. Maybe you have a codependent relationship with your motherboard. But that doesn't mean you're not a real person. Want to know if you're artificial? Take Worst of the Web Guide Dave Spohn's amusing exam.

THE EYE OF ARGON by Jim Thiels ... A classic of science fiction? Well -- yes, after a fashion. THE EYE OF ARGON is probably the worst science fiction story ever published. At least that's what it's known for.