Scan This Book!

May 14, 2006 New York Times

By KEVIN KELLY

Despite the opposition of publishers and their lawyers, the world's texts are being electronically copied, digitized, searched and linked.

This is an excellent ten page article. The first half is very familiar, but the opinions and conclusions in the last half are fascinating.

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-117A -- Scripts in eBay Postings May Enable Phishing Attacks

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-117A -- Scripts in eBay Postings May Enable Phishing Attacks

Damn! This is getting nasty. Where's my gun - I'm going hunting.

Oh No! Bird Flu Strikes in South Florida!

Photographer Unknown

Firefox Add Ons

From: ERIC FERGUSON III by way of the Internet (original author unknown, but I will gladly give credit if you contact me)

Allow Right-Click 0.3 - Defeats web sites' right-click prevention scripts.
Always Remember Password 0.3 - Makes the browser ignore web site requests to not remember passwords.
BBCode 0.4.1.3 - Adds Formating (BBCode/HTML/XHTML/etc.) to the context menu for Blogs and forums like Mozillazine (PHPBB and others).
CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 0.9.9.64 - Adds icons to all menus items.
DictionarySearch 1.5 - Looks up selected word in an online dictionary
Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0.1 - Prevents download links opening a blank window.
Download Embedded 0.2 - Downloads all embedded objects on a webpage.
Download Embedded 0.1 - Downloads all embedded objects on a webpage.
DownThemAll! 0.9.8.7 - The mass downloader for Firefox.
Duplicate Tab 0.7 - Allows you to duplicate a tab, or to merge the windows.
Fasterfox 1.0.3 - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
FireFoxMenuButtons 1.1.2 - Adds 30 Buttons (duplicating of menu strings) from Firefox Menu on the Toolbar
Forecastfox 0.8.5 - Get international weather forecasts and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.
Gmail Notifier 0.5.5 - A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Google Images Re-Linker 0.3 - Jumps directly to the full-size image on images.google.com.
Google Pagerank Status 0.9.5 - Display the google pagerank in your browser's status bar.
GooglePreview 1.2.1 - Inserts web site previews in google and yahoo search results.
IE Tab 1.0.7 - Open IE-only pages in "embedded IE" !!!
IE View 1.2.7 - Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
Image Zoom 0.2.3 - Adds zoom functionality for images
ListZilla 0.7 - Outputs an alphabetical list of extensions to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
Location Navigator 0.6 - An extension that lets you increment/decrement
Menu Editor 1.2 - Customize application menus
Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.2005091606+ - Minimizes Mozilla windows into the system tray
Open link in... 1.4 - Adds more tab/window opening options to the context menu for links and images.
OpenDownload 0.2.3 - Allows you to open any file from the internet into the OS assigned program.
Paste Quote 0.3.1 - Lets you paste text as forum quotations from the context menu.
Plain Text Links 0.2 - Treat selected plain text urls as links, right click to open
Popup ALT Attribute 1.3.2005092701 - Popups alternate texts of images or others like NetscapeCommunicator(Navigator) 4.x, and show long descriptions in the multi-row tooltip.
Popup Count 0.3.1 - Counts the number of blocked popups.
Redirect Remover 1.1 - Removes redirects from links
ReloadEvery 1.5 - Reloads webpages every so many seconds or minutes
RiteOfTongue 0.3.2 - Right-click on typed text to get alternate spellings powered by Yahoo! Search.
Save Image in Folder 0.7.3 - Easily save images in personally customized folders.
Save Link in Folder 0.9.3 - Easily save links in personally customized folders.
Screen grab! 0.7 - Takes a screen shot using Java.
SearchPluginHacks 0.1.3 - Allows uninstalling search plugins - just right click on a search plugin and choose 'Delete'
SEOpen 0.6.1 - Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization.
Show Failed URL 0.1.4 - Displays failed URLs in the Location Bar when XUL error pages are enabled.
Show Old Extensions 0.1.7 - Display pre-0.9 extensions in the manager.
SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension 19.0 - A SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension for safe searching
Slim Extension List 0.3.1 - Makes items in extension list shorter, so you can see more at once. Also, sorts them by name.
SmoothWheel 0.44.7.20050605 - Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel
SpellBound 0.7.3 - Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2 - Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one. When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button. (Like in Safari)
SwiftTabs 0.3.2.4 - You can move to the next tab or the previous tab and close the current tab with a key.
TabSwitcher 1.1 - TabSwitcher allows you to switch between tabs with customized shortcuts. Defaults are Ctrl+Left/Right.
Translate 0.6.0.8 - Translate web pages and/or selected text to different languages
Tweak Network 1.1 - Tweak network settings.
WellRounded 0.43 - Provides rounded URL and search bars.
Whois Lookup 0.1 - Displays whois data for the current url in a new tab


ERIC

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-107A -- Mozilla Products Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-107A -- Mozilla Products Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities

Now it's back to problems with Mozilla products. Some people out there have WAY too much time on their hands.

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-101A -- Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

US-CERT Cyber Security Alert SA06-101A -- Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

Unlike Patti, I don't think that Microsoft = Evil. I think it's more like Microsoft = Thoughtless. Feel free to add your own word AFTER downloading the newest fixes.