The new evil... September 11 showed us all that we are living in a world which has given unrivalled power to individuals who have no appreciation of the value of human life. History has known empires of evil. However,they all rose and fell without endangering the very existence and the continued development of life-desiring humanity. There was a certain logic to the relations between the empires of evil and life-seeking humanity that ultimately brought about the eradication of the empires. Whereas, what we are now facing, is the ability and readiness of individual persons to produce spectacular killing on a mass scale.

Make A Shorter Link... This web site provides a simple service - when you find a page on the web whose address is too long to paste into an email or other document, you can use their free service to generate a shorter, simpler address.

Safe and Free: Safe and Free in Times of Crisis "This bill has simply missed the mark of maximizing security and, at the same time, minimizing any adverse effects on America's freedoms," said Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU Washington National Office. "Most Americans do not recognize that Congress has just passed a bill that would give the government expanded power to invade our privacy, imprison people without due process and punish dissent."

SmoothWall GPL... "SmoothWall is a secure operating system that converts a redundant PC / workstation / fileserver / rackmount device into a firewall and VPN gateway, but goes way beyond that remit. First launched in July of 2000 and based on ideas and concepts that took in the best philosophies behind the installation and procurement of hardware security devices, we decided to really come up with a way for everyone from your IT director/SysAdmin down to the home user to have the same level of security regardless of budget. SmoothWall GPL is free, free as in libre. It is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence which means that yes we also give you our source. SmoothWall is webmanaged so no keyboard, monitor, or mouse on the device is needed. It supports Internal ISDN, all popular NICS, all popular connection types (Modem / ISDN / Cable / ADSL / USB ADSL / Ethernet) and also features a fully logging firewall, DHCP server, IPSEC VPN capabilities and much, much more." Found at lockergnome.

'Mommy Liberty' Packs a Gun 17-year old high school student Eliza Gauger's drawing of Mommy Liberty spread across the Internet in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.

HTML Goodies - Joe Burns, Ph.D.... And remember: When you make your way down here to New Orleans, maybe you'll find it interesting, as I did, that instead of catsup being on the restaurant table, it's hot pepper sauce. I like it, but those who grew up here just put it on everything. The hotter the better. What makes a pepper "hot" is the amount of capsaicin it contains. In 1912, a fellow named Wilber Scoville devised a scale that ranked peppers in terms of hotness. The scale was measured in Scoville units for obvious reasons.

A pepper is sweet if it ranks between 0 and 100 Scovilles. A Jalapeno has between 2500 and 5000 Scovilles. The hottest pepper is the Habanero, which ranks over 100,000 Scovilles. Some have gone as high as 350,000 Scovilles.

Ouch.

Bin Laden's Felt-Skinned Henchman? - FOXNews.com... Do the global terror links reach even as far as Sesame Street? Is Bert the Muppet a henchman of terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden? The answer is clearly no, but puzzled newspaper readers are still wondering how the Sesame Street icon ended up in a news service photograph of a pro-bin Laden protest in Bangladesh. The pictures clearly showed demonstrators holding up a large poster in which bin Laden and Bert are standing next to each other.

DeskFlag from Tiger Technologies... DeskFlag places an animated United States flag on your screen. The flag waves in the lower-right corner as you use your computer.

DeskFlag was created after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and is dedicated to the memory of the victims. We hope that in some small way, using this program helps people demonstrate their condemnation of this senseless act.

DeskFlag should work with any Windows computer running Windows 95 or later.

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Doomsday fears of terror cyber-attacks... Computer experts have painted a chilling picture of the potential threat from a combined terror and cyber-attack on the United States. They told Congress that terrorists could target computer networks critical to power supplies, telecommunications and financial systems and wreak havoc on the country. Fears of a cyber-assault on the US have been heightened following the 11 September attacks.

Software sought to expose terrorist cells (10/09/2001)... In a move that has some privacy rights advocates concerned, the Pentagon is hoping to track down terrorists with the help of a growing battery of computer software developed to combat consumer and business fraud.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying to design its own version of the software to uncover terrorist cells that are posing as legitimate groups and lying about such things as past employment, education and business affiliations.