Fears that
the next U.S. presidential election is going to be a spamfest has helped launch a Political Spam
Hall of Shame. If you receive a political spam, particularly for a national campaign where the winner gets to go live in Washington DC, (and particularly if you don’t actually live in the U.S. or are a U.S. citizen)
send it along.
Here’s the blurb: “The gist of my concern is that political spam should be no more acceptable than any other kind of spam, and it looks like 2004 is an election where political spam may, unfortunately, realize its full potential to annoy and aggravate, no different than V1AGARA spam or spam promoting products alleged to enlarge certain body parts.
“At first, we’re just going to collect political spam as it happens, post it here, and document responses or non-responses of various and sundry campaigns to being labeled spammers.”
Conspiracy theorists reckon the big power blackout in the U.S. Northeast and part of Canada may have been caused by the Blaster worm. Here’s Robert X. Cringely from InfoWorld: “Many plants on the grid run a Windows-based SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system that receives remote commands through the same RPC (Remote Procedure Call) protocol exploited by MSBlaster. Among other things, SCADA systems control the amount of energy each plant produces.”
From the This Sounds Like A Good Thing, Or Are We Being Luddites? Dept comes 
From the Obscure Info But Store It Away Because You’re Bound To Need It Someday Dept comes an interesting service: new and legacy memory for desktop computers, notebooks, servers, workstations, laser printers, digital cameras and palm-top computers.
Further to my earlier post about the delays behind the next version of Windows, Paul Thurrott of 