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He’s a 44-year-old “casher” who turned stolen credit-card accounts into cash for East European hackers. Now his life at the bottom of the cybercrime food chain has landed him in jail, and federal agents are sniffing at his heels. By Kim Zetter.

Confessions of a Cybermule
Originally from Wired News: Top Stories

I’ve blogged about Continuous Partial Attention. There is a difference between having CPA and multi-tasking. Linda Stone is the person who first turned me on to this concept and now she has a wiki about Continuous Partial Attention. Yay!

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Continuous Partial Attention
Originally from Joi Ito's Web by Joi

The second line of the declaration of independence “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is ambiguous for a good reason: ambiguity in politics is as rewarding as precision in science. The authors of these lines were aware that only the pursuit was an “inalienable right” but not happiness itself. But this right may be […]

A noir melodrama tracks a sleazy dude through his short life, as he withholds employees’ pay, boasts of sexual adventures, enrages government officials and floods Russia with 25 million e-mails a day. Until he gets his skull bashed in. By Brett Forrest from Wired magazine.

The Rise and Fall of a Spam King
Originally from […]

From The Washington Post:
OATH BETRAYED: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror. By Steven H. Miles
Vulnerable in body and mind, we look to our physicians for compassion — which makes torture that’s abetted by the medical profession especially horrific. Jacobo Timerman, a victim of Argentina’s "dirty war," wrote of the special pain of […]

New York Times has an interesting article titled “In the Race With Google, It’s Consistency vs. Wow” that talks about how different Google and Yahoo have evolved. Yahoo creates new products that integrate with the existing ones, doesn’t innovate too much to keep its conservative userbase and it’s more down-to-earth. Google launches many exciting products, […]

Explore Google World from 2003.”Work is hard and you need a break. A sun-soaked vacation is just the ticket, but where to begin? With Google there’s a world of helpful, time-saving features right at your fingertips.”
How to build a better query - useful tips.
Valentine’s Day 2001A Java applet that shows a heart and writes “I […]

Mark Frauenfelder:
I love this gallery of strange statues from around the world. Link
(Thanks, Wade!)
Fantastic gallery of strange statues around the world
Originally from Boing Boing by noemail@noemail.org (Mark Frauenfelder)

[originally posted April 6, 2005]
Listen to these two musical excerpts and note any differences you discern:
Ave Maria, version 1
Ave Maria, version 2
(Source: courtesy of Mayumi Hamamoto and Kyota Ko)
If you’re a typical nonmusician, you will probably notice some sort of difference between the two excerpts. Maybe one seems to be played at a different tempo, […]

Phylotaxis / for Seed by Jonathan Harris