Happy Holidays...
Hope everyone had a nice holiday!
SFGate.com has the terrific tale of Sex.com - all crime and no sex.
"The only thing missing from the Sex.com story is a dead stripper found with a rubber alligator lodged in her throat -- though, by all estimates, to add this to the URL's outrageous legacy wouldn't be a huge shocker. It would only be adding some sex to the mix -- especially considering the Sex.com story includes a fugitive seized by U.S. marshals, hard-luck convicted felons hiding millions in Mexican shrimp farms and strip clubs, the fugitive's daughter caught smuggling over 200 pounds of pot, one multimillionaire dot-com scammer speed fiend with a Stanford MBA, a bizarre bid to buy Caesars Palace and a recent Tijuana gangland-style assassination attempt on a lawyer (nicknamed "The Toad") that left a Mexican cabbie and a 4-year-old boy wounded." read on!
C|net has an amusing article on the Top Ten Apple Rumours of All Time. Makes for interesting reading given Jobs & Co.'s recent stock option glitches...
If you're the nervous type, the CERTStation website compiles some of the 'net's best threat-assessment (to net security) rundowns and displays them all on a neatly-arranged page for easy access.
Of note to backyard astronomers and naked-eye stargazing buffs is this free e-book from Tammy Plotner of the Warren-Rupp Observatory: "365 Days of Skywatching" - beware, it's slashdotted at the moment so it might take a while to download.
Once again, Sports Illustrated has posted their photos of the year. Some really good stuff there!