Macromedia has a news/blog aggregator for their various products.

Check it out here.

Ok, everyone probably has seen this before, but here it is for those who haven’t:

The Geek Test — see how much of a geek you are.

I scored a 38.

Check out the article on Macromedia’s site.

A nice open source application that uses XML to markup Bible texts and then readers to parse them on almos t any platform (Win, Linux, Mac, Zaurus).

Here is the link.

Very interesting article on a new data communications coding method called “turbo codes” was posted on Slashdot today. It is an interesting approach to allow noisy channels like cell phone networks to work at almost the Shannon capacity.

Read the article here.

Also read a short story by Cory Doctorow called “0wnz0red”, an excellent read. He continues to publish all of his books and short stories on the web.

Here is the link to his site with books, articles, short stories, and so forth.

Read this great book called “The Hacker Crackdown” by Bruce Sterling that talks about the law enforcement and hacker subculture clashes in the early 90s. A great read, but I couldn’t find it in PDF format, so I converted it.

Here is the link to original text.

Here is the link to the PDF that I made from that text (1.2 MB PDF) .

Mr. Sterling, if you find this, I had to edit some spelling and formatting from the text I found online, I hope you don’t mind.

Since this is in the news a lot because of “The Passion”, check out this interesting article on it.

There are a number of interesting things in the /proc directory.

For fun, log into your Linux box as root, and in a bash shell type:

# ls -d /proc/* | grep [0-9] | wc -l; ps ax | wc -l

This should compare the number of processes that /proc thinks it is running and the number that ps thinks it is running. I read that a common rootkit exploit is to modify ps to not show you what is running, and that it is tough to trick /proc to do the same thing. If the numbers are significantly different, audit your system.

I stumbled across an interesting site that gives good information about stylesheets and also has a great dynamic menu script. Check out BrainJar.com.

Also, I have been reading over the CSS2 specification on the W3C’s site. There is a lot of interesting stuff there, check it out here.

This blog uses a nice stylesheet from BlueRobot, who also has some nice CSS stylesheeting examples.