Archive for December 19th, 2001

Some current events-related cartoon strips.

http://mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war6.html

I haven’t linked to anything from the Onion, so here goes. Their content is always worth at least a grin or two:

http://www.theonion.com/onion37406/entrepreneur_stuck_with.html

My dog has a microchip that was inserted this past summer. If he were to run away, it’d allow most vets or animal shelters to find out my contact info. But, I don’t know about getting a chip inserted into me…

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-121901chips.story

I can’t recall the last time I personally ripped a CD, in part because I don’t have drivers for my CD/DVD-ROM drive under 2000 to allow it to rip at high speed…

Regardless, make a protection scheme, create a challenge for the hackers and geeks of the world. I know coutless video game systems and PC games have had their encryption/copy protection broken even before said technology was released. I don’t see that changing any time soon.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/interact/story/0,24330,3365407,00.html