David Kelly, an U.K. government weapons adviser, got lost. Before, he was named as a possible source for a report that a dossier on Iraq‘s weapons of mass destruction was sexed up. Oops.

Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. It automatically generates web pages that might look totally cool to a spambot, but includes barely any useful meaning to a human lifeform. And it feeds the spammers‘ mail addresses to the spammers. Eat your own dog food! There is a sample page available: Betrayal Truthfully Anglicanism Immaterially Digitized! [via Der Schockwellenreiter]

The Blinkenlights crew will be at the Camp. This was just mentioned on the Blinkenlights News page which recently was upgraded to include a RSS 1.0 feed as well.

Well, this should be no surprise as this is a CCC event. The good news is, that many of the Blinkenlights clones will be there as well and will show their stuff.

UPDATE: Slashdot got the scoop. Fine.

Not really new, but still an interesting piece: What you really die from lists the top 10 causes of death in the United States in 1999. Suprisingly, terrorism is not among them.

Our friends of 2600 have brought out new shirts. Rumour has it they will be available at the Camp.

Also online: the cover art of the Winter 2002 edition of 2600 Magazine showing the Big Brother face on the facade of the Bibliothèque nationale de France with Blinkenlights Arcade.

The More Internet preference pane solves a problem that seems to remain even in the latest beta of Panther: there is no way to set (or even: view!) the list of registered helper application registered for certain protocol schemes or MIME media types. Simple clean solution.

My alter ego, Theodor Prinz, has started a weblog in German.

nice site

The whole truth is revealed in Scott Anderson‘s excellent piece on German Toilets.

Trackback is one of the more nifty features of the Movable Type weblog system. It allows blogging web sites to „tell“ other sites that they have been linked. The system works via a single „ping“ XML-RPC call that passes over the URL of the linking web page, a short description or excerpt and the title of the news item.

Long suffering from the not-invented-here-syndrome, UserLand, maker of the blogging software Radio has implemented Trackback as well opening up dynamic link reporting to many thousand sites more. This is a good thing (TM). Congratulations.