CounterSpy antispyware

I just installed CounterSpy on two computers that were running other spyware programs. On the first scan, it found dozens of cookies and a couple of trojans the other programs had missed. CounterSpy is currently the best spyware killer, bar none.

Blinded by desire

Viagra linked to blindness risk

Free wifi

Good morning from Gate 54 in Terminal B at Orlando International Airport where they have a very strong, free, wifi signal. Most surprising, and most excellent! [Scripting News]

Here in L.A. there’s free wifi in Pershing Square, downtown Culver City, and I’m sure lots more locations too. If you know of any, please [...]

Who’s on first?

“Five cases of Quran ‘mishandling’” found by Brig. General Jay W. HoodYet

“Pentagon officials says no credible evidence of Koran abuse.”

The Podcast Hotel

This looks really interesting

The Podcast Hotel: Where Art and Commerce Meet.

On Sept. 6 and 7, the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Or., will become a podcast and videoblog studio. Rooms will be for recording, editing and producing. The court yard will be a media lounge. The underground club will be for podcast concerts. [...]

France votes on EU membership Sunday

Polls show the No vote at 55%.

“If the ‘No’ wins, there will be not only a European crisis … but also an enormous political upheaval in France,” said Christophe Barbier, deputy editor of L’Express magazine.

The Netherlands votes in a referendum next Wednesday, with polls pointing to a “No.”

ABC rightly says a [...]

The rush is on

GM and Ford are advertising in podcasts

U.S. Customs and travel

I’m back in L.A. after 4 days in Montreal on business. When returning to the States from Montreal, you clear U.S. Customs in the Montreal Airport which is both handy and a bit weird, going through U.S. Customs while on foreign soil. The first question they ask is, were you born in the United States. [...]

Encryption as evidence of criminal intent.

From Schneier on Security

An appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent.I am speechless.

Motorist drives into crowd protesting Minuteman

Three people were injured and at least eight arrested Wednesday in Garden Grove after a motorist drove into a crowd of 300 demonstrators protesting a speech by the founder of the Minuteman Project, authorities said.

The motorist had attended Gilchrist’s speech and was leaving when protesters began hitting his van with placards and other [...]