Another day, another DoubleClick privacy PR disaster DoubleClick has been caught mucking around with personal privacy - again. The world's biggest online ad sales house has been caught gleaning email addresses and other personal information from Web site customers - without the knowledge of Web sites.

Fool.com: Planet Hollywood Will Change When Shaq Replaces Schwarzenegger (Top 5 List) June 29, 2000

Giving Amazon the Finger and othe technological tidbits from the New York PC Expo.

How does a yacht sail upwind? It's easy to understand how a yacht sails downwind, with the wind whistling from behind. The breeze pushes against the sails and the yacht surges ahead. But how is it that wind from abeam (the side), or off the bow, can propel a boat forward? You may never have seen it presented as simply as this.

Ananova - Da Vinci parachute design holds up in test A British daredevil has proved that a parachute designed by Leonardo da Vinci actually works by using it from a height of 10,000ft.

A List Apart: Rated XHTML Being a web developer is a tough job. Not only do you have to steer clear of the traps and pitfalls the popular browsers think up for you on a daily basis, you also have to keep at least half an eye on all kinds of developments that may (or may not) have an impact on your job. Having hardly mastered style sheets and DHTML, new techniques clamor for attention. Which ones are important right away? Which ones can you dismiss for now?

It's Not Your Father's IBM It goes without saying that this is not your father's IBM hosting this event. But the Geek Spa party, which is slated to cap IBM's relaunch of its WebSphere commerce development platform, is definitely a Big Blue event.

International Rectifier Interesting interview with the CEO of my current employer.

Interactive Genome Guide... COOL! As you are reading these words with the cells in your eyes, please pause and lift your right index finger and touch the tip of your nose. Notice the smoothness of operation. Millions of cells in your body participated smoothly in that motion. Each of us is an electrochemical machine -- animal -- being -- composed of cells. What gives life to our cells?

CNN.com - Health - Milestone in human genetics to be announced Monday - June 23, 2000 (CNN) -- In a major step toward a new era of gene-based medicine and disease treatment, two research centers are expected to announce on Monday that they separately have sketched a map detailing the secrets of human genetic structure.

CNET.com - News - Personal Technology - IBM thinks small with 1GB hard drive for handhelds For perspective, that means the difference between a maximum of 16 high-resolution images on a 16MB CompactFlash card and almost 400 for the Microdrive. The Microdrive is also cheaper than the CompactFlash: A 128MB CompactFlash card costs about the same as--or more than--the 340MB Microdrive. The new drive also can serve as a data-exchange accessory to notebook computers, desktop computers and printers, the company said. IBM claims future applications may include wearable computers, electronic books, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers used to guide automobile drivers, smart phones and electronic wallets.

CLICK 'N HELP You've probably seen the The Hunger Site. You click on the button, and they donate food. Now there is the The RainForest Site. Click the button, and you save 12 sq. feet of Rain Forest. There is also Clear Land Mines which allows you to help pay for the removal of landmines from around the world.

Microsoft Internet Explorer High Encryption Pack Microsoft has released a new version of IE, v5.01 SP1. According to the website, provides the latest updates and security fixes to the Internet Explorer technology. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 can be installed as an upgrade to existing versions of Internet Explorer, or on computers with no previous Internet Explorer installation. If you are running Windows 9x or Windows NT 4.0, installing Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 will upgrade your computer to 128-bit encryption. If you are running Windows 2000, installing Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 will not change the current level of encryption on your computer.

Fortune: 6.26.2000 The Hot Idea of the Year Shuttering Napster won't save anyone's bacon. Tons of music already trade free via Gnutella, and since Gnutella is a technology, not a company, it can't be sued and it can't be closed down. Even if it could be, similar services are popping up. This stuff is irrepressible....A peer-to-peer network can move faster than the Web because users search for data on countless numbers of hard drives simultaneously. The information can be much more timely, too, since it comes straight from a computer that might have been updated only a few seconds before you launched your search. And peer-to-peer services can even anticipate precisely where to find what you're looking for on the basis of your past pattern of requests, making for faster and more efficient searches and downloads.

Who ever said that mousing shouldn't be comfortable? This company makes MouseRug - woven "mouse pads" that look like classic Persian, Navajo, and other style rugs. They use a specially treated micro fibre. A friend claims he hasn't had to clean the ball and rollers in his mouse since he started using a MouseRug. Of course I haven't had to clean a mouse ball or rollers either since switching to a Microsoft IntelliEye mouse. It doesn't have a ball or rollers. I may still get a MouseRug, they look interesting.

I Spy With My Super Eye Now, if you only could fly, your comic book fantasies would be complete: The University of Rochester has introduced a shortcut to superhuman vision. Using technology developed by astronomers who wanted a better look at the stars, researcher David Williams has developed an optical system that dramatically improves the vision of people with even 20/20 eyesight.

NASA 'Robonaut' prepares for spacewalking duties The next generation of spacewalkers could fix faulty satellites and space stations without breaking a sweat, needing a meal or expecting a paycheck. Already the first one, a metal humanoid known as Robonaut, has developed an impressive level of dexterity.

The baby eagle story Once upon a time There was a baby eagle living in a nest perched on a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley with waterfalls and streams, trees and lots of little animals, scurrying about enjoying their lives.

Earth and Sky "Each day's segment is designed to guide your eye to something you can see that night, or the next morning before dawn. It might be a constellation, a star, or a planet. Or it might be a celestial event, such as an eclipse. Or, just for fun, on some days Deborah might take you (in your imagination) on a trip to another planet, to give you the view from there. And the best thing is, you don't need any special equipment to enjoy Tonight's Sky. You just need to look up..."

How Stuff Works! Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you! Click on the categories below to see hundreds of cool articles!

The best article yet on the Microsfot breakup - a well deserved satire . January 2001--U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who made the ruling last June that the Microsoft Corp. be split into separate companies, has created further controversy by ordering Kleenex, Jell-O and Scotch tape to make everybody stop asking for a Kleenex, some Jell-O and a roll of Scotch tape "and start asking for a tissue, some gelatin or a roll of that clear sticky tape," to keep things fair. Industry analysts expressed concern as Kleenex stock blew sky-high, Jell-O wavered and Scotch tape held firm.

Feds Urged to Beef Up Spying Congress must give federal police more eavesdropping abilities and increase the budgets of spy agencies, members of a federal commission are recommending. The Justice Department is "overly cautious" when forwarding requests for wiretaps and electronic surveillance to a secret court established in 1978 for that purpose, Paul Bremer, the National Commission on Terrorism chairman, said Thursday.

Company to Fly First Web Server in Space A startup satellite company announced Saturday it is partnering with one of the world's leading computer companies to put what it claims to be the first Web server in orbit.

Top Ten Algorithms "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation," says Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analyses' Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland. He and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have put together a sampling that might have made Robert Frost beam with pride--had the poet been a computer jock. Their list of 10 algorithms having "the greatest influence on the development and practice of science and engineering in the 20th century" appears in the January/February issue of Computing in Science & Engineering. If you use a computer, some of these algorithms are no doubt crunching your data as you read this.

Water found in meteorite The space rock was recovered by a group of boys in a small Texas town who saw it fall out of the sky in 1998.

Pet Paintings! Here's how it works: You send a photo of your pet, and get a cartoonie painting back! Two sizes are available, 3"x5" on a 2" thick block of pine, OR a 9"x12" canvas board. They cost $75 each, but YOU DON'T PAY The ARTIST! You make a $70 check out to your choice of registered non-profit animal shelter, and a $5 check out to the artist (to cover materials and postage).

Embedded Linux Imsys (Sweden) used the occasion of JavaOne 2000 in San Francisco to unveil an unusual new system-on-chip microprocessor that supports native on-chip Java bytecode execution -- but also runs embedded Linux. The device, called the Cjip, achieves a high degree of on-chip functionality via an unusual approach: dynamically alterable microcode.

CRN BREAKING NEWS IBM Corp., looking to spread its arms ever wider to embrace Linux across its entire server line, is preparing to move the operating system to the supercomputer realm via superclusters of Netfinity servers.