‘Beltway Sniper’ Video-Game Release Delayed Out Of Respect For Victims [The Onion]

Last night was the semimonthly tuez anime night, where I saw the first few episodes of Kurogane Communications. Kurogane Communications takes place after an apocalypse that has apparently killed all humans, except for the way too cheerful main character. The author uses extreme contrasts to define the tone of the anime. Extremely perky music is overlaid on scene after scene of destruction. One of the robots looks like a terminator but wears a cute little circle gold earring. The contrast turned my stomach in some of the ways Series 7: The Contenders did (just not as consistently or as violently).

Corporate Leaders Are More Pessimistic Than the Fed. Federal Reserve officials expect the economy to improve soon, but C.E.O.’s plan to cut jobs to respond to growth that they predict will remain meager. By David Leonhardt. [New York Times: Politics]

Understanding DIME and WS-Attachments. Dig into the rationale behind attachments, explore the key ideas around packaging and message delineation, and learn how DIME and WS-Attachments arose from these ideas. [MSDN]

Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump. msolnik writes “Members of The Houston Linux Users Group discovered that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from tcpdump.org were contaminated … [Slashdot]

W3C recommends online forms standard. The Web’s leading standards organization reaches a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the Internet. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft to launch corporate IM. The software giant is expected to release a corporate version of its popular instant messaging product, named MSN Messenger Connect for Enterprises, to tap a fast-growing market. [CNET News.com]

Microsoft’s Shared Source CLI Now Supports Mac OS X. Download the complete implementation of the ECMA CLI and C# standards that now runs on Mac OS X as well as Windows XP and FreeBSD. [MSDN]

Berkshire Hathaway. “A society like Europe whose people have lost their will to compete is not a danger to those who embrace and thrive on competition.” [The Motley Fool]

U.S. Shifts Emphasis in Afghanistan to Security and Road Building. The Pentagon is preparing to shift its focus in Afghanistan towards improving security in important cities and rebuilding the war-battered infrastructure. By James Dao. [New York Times: Politics]