One of the well features of Opera and Mozilla that IE doesn’t have is Mouse Gestures. So today I did a google search and installed StrokeIt. I’ve got to admit drawing a C to close a window is super handy. I do a A and get my weblog. Another gesture is bound to opening a cmd window with the build environment.. Very Cool.

Gartner slams MS security after latest flaw. No improvement till 2004 [The Register]

Scoble still isn’t getting what Hailstorm/.NET MyServices was.

He’s right about concerns on where the data lives. It was that issue that killed hailstorm (or at least has made it go away till they had thier federation story worked out at ship time instead of V2 time). But the main point is that what MSN 8 is shipping simply can’t be hailstorm because hailstorm is a platform and what MSN 8 is providing isn’t.

Finally, what does server side data sources and manipulation apis have anything to do with how the web site chooses to display it? A familiar example is RSS. Every news aggergator and web site has a different way of showing the information retreived through the format. Some are standards compliant, some aren’t, and some are not even web based at all.

Leander Kahney digs through the archives and discovers that many of the innovations in Mac history came from small independent developers, not Apple. Keep digging Leander, there’s much more to the story. [Scripting News]

Ballmer heads for Oz to staunch Telstra Windows defection. Charm offensive? No, we can’t see it either… [The Register]

Madison Avenue and your brain. New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they’re told to, when that commercial comes on. [Salon.com]

Congress boost for Bush on Iraq. President George W Bush reaches a deal with US congressional leaders which could pave the way for the use of force against Iraq. [BBC News | WORLD]

New Trailer For The Two Towers [Slashdot]
Finally got a second to watch this one.

MIT OpenCourseWare Now Online [Slashdot]

Microsoft buys Liquid Audio DRM patents. ‘Long term vision for DRM technology’ [The Register]