Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike Messenger (Wired News) bi13521233 SAN FRANCISCO -- Here along Market Street, heavily tattooed bicyclists too many piercings too many places weave through traffic, ducking subway steam vents, trolleys, motorists and a sea of jaywalkers. They're bike messengers -- a fixture most large cities -- slinging satchels stuffed legal documents, blueprints, executives' lunches and eviction notices. But the ..

AOL Cuts More Products Developed Dulles (Washington Post) bi13521233 AOL slashing more products -- including some that had been promoted as on the cutting edge of the company's future -- as part of effort to cut costs and focus resources on what working for the beleaguered giant

Hacker, Counterfeiter Comes Clean Ahead of Prison Stint (Wired News) bi13521233 Student Jeremiah Mondello worked way through college selling pirated software on eBay, laundering $300,000 profits through PayPal accounts opened stolen identities. He spoke Wired.com before checking prison for a four-year stretch

Guide to keeping kids safe online (Stuff) bi13521233 For kids, the not just for fun. It's fast becoming an indispensible tool for learning and socialising

Daddy Oh (The Jamaica Observer) bi13521233 Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses? Kissing inside lip..is nothing? - Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale 1, 2..

NEUFELD ON BOOKS: A look at 3 books whose authors have local ties (Asheville bi13521233 Darren Miller, an Asheville resident, has collaborated James Broderick on a superlative book about conspiracies

GNOME's Murray Cumming blogging on Jeff Waugh (OS News) bi13521233 Get out your popcorn, boys and girls, geek soap opera at finest. "Jeff Waugh a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive. He poisonous people."..

Branded (New York Times) bi13521233 Today?s savvier consumers are said to be more impervious to advertising. Rob Walker says: nope

MS products just too cool to comprehend, say MS geeks (The Register) bi13521233 Windows Vista by any other name When the product sucks but you can't bring yourself to admit the horrible truth, what's the next logical step? Blame the message, the messenger or the recipient of the message. Simple.?..

Georgian president's Web site attacked, Russians blamed (UPI) bi13521233 By SHAUN WATERMAN UPI Homeland and National Security EditorWASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- The Web site of President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was brought down week by hackers apparently based Russia, the latest a string of cyberattacks directed against neighboring countries experiencing friction the newly resurgent bear

AOL Cuts More Products Developed Dulles (Washington Post) bi13521233 AOL slashing more products -- including some that had been promoted as on the cutting edge of the company's future -- as part of effort to cut costs and focus resources on what working for the beleaguered giant

Hacker, Counterfeiter Comes Clean Ahead of Prison Stint (Wired News) bi13521233 Student Jeremiah Mondello worked way through college selling pirated software on eBay, laundering $300,000 profits through PayPal accounts opened stolen identities. He spoke Wired.com before checking prison for a four-year stretch

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