This Modern World. A rainy day “War on Terror” fun game! [Salon.com]

what fire looks like in freefall [jwz]

engineering pornography [jwz]

File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers. No, we are not making this up… [The Register]

MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail’s Win2k switch. But concludes ‘we should eat our own dog food’ [The Register]

Kerberos bug bites. Authentication system in stack buffer overflow risk [The Register]

Interoperability is long-term goal – IM vendors. Don’t hold your breath [The Register]

Apple ‘It’ Girl Breaks Silence. Ellen Feiss talks to a college newspaper about her surprising fame after being featured in an Apple ad. Among the revelations: she was on drugs, the infamous advert was a lucky accident and Hollywood is keen to make her a star. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

fun facts about solar system simulation [jwz]

Islamists riot over Miss World report. Muslim radicals in northern Nigeria burn down the offices of a newspaper which referred to the Prophet in an article on the Miss World contest. [BBC News | WORLD]