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Happy Reading for today

<Karen>


1)
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/25/AR2008012503261.html
President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the
intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect
against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies' computer
systems.

2)
Technical aspects of the DDoS attacks upon the Church of Scientology
http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858552-57.html

3)
Prof aims to improve Internet security
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/269556

4)
How secure are your text messages?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080124/BLOG01/80124038/1002/BUSINESS

5)
Societe Generale trader hacked into computers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/01/25/nsocgen225.xml
The rogue trader accused of the biggest fraud in banking history stayed
"invisible" for weeks by hacking into his bank's computer system and
removing all traces of his multi-billion pound losses, it has been
claimed.

6)
Law Students Insulted Online Challenged in Finding Foes
A lawsuit that two women students at Yale Law School brought against people who anonymously attacked them on the law-students'
chat site, AutoAdmit, may end up going nowhere, according to posts today in Ars Technica and Slashdot. The posts say that the lawyers
for the two students have been unable to identify those who berated them online because AutoAdmit operators did not keep track of
the Internet addresses of those who posted to the site. The lawyers have been making desperate attempts to get the names of the
defendants, even requesting records from Microsoft, the University of North Carolina, ServInt Internet Services, PenTeleData, GoDaddy,
and other Internet-based businesses, according to Ars Technica. But officials from the companies have told the plaintiffs' lawyers that
they don't keep records going back beyond two to three months, or that they would need a judge's order to gain access to the records. ~Andrea L. Foster


7)
In the Name of Entrepreneurship? The Logic and Effects of Special
Regulatory Treatment for Small Business [pdf]
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG663.pdf

8)
Student Voices [pdf]
http://www.student-voices.org/
Started in 1999 by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the
University of Pennsylvania, Student Voices is designed "to improve the
dialogue of democracy among our nation's young people and encourage their
civic engagement."

9)
Chemistry PowerPoint Lessons and Instructional Materials [pdf, ppt]
http://www.chalkbored.com/lessons/chemistry-12.htm

10)
Learn the Periodic Table with the best mnemonic device ever THE SONG!!!

11)
Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807
http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html


12)
THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD JAZZ IS IRISH

Jazz Old Time Online [Real Player]
http://www.jazz-on-line.com/index.htm
For fans of jazz, the Jazz Old Time site will be a fun way to listen to few
well-known chestnuts from the early days of this musical idiom. Of course,
those who don't know much about jazz will appreciate listening to a few new
artists as well. The site features over 18,000 songs in the public domain,
and visitors can browse through the selections by artists or take a look at
a few sample playlists. As one might suspect, artists like King Oliver,
Meade Lux Lewis, and Louis Armstrong are featured prominently, though early
recordings from later artists, such as Stan Getz, are also available. The
site might also be recommended to students in a music appreciation course.

13)
Ragtime is an Irish Word
Find out what Scoop Gleeson meant - when he said: 'Its members have trained on ragtime and `jazz'.' 
AND more Irish American Vernacular English words used by Scoop Gleeson in the Sports pages to talk about baseball.

Ragtime
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/ragtime/ragtime-home.html
Ragtime is a uniquely American musical idiom and it is generally
distinguished by its three or four contrasting sections or strains, each one
being 16 or 32 measures in length. Played by itinerant pianists who made
their way across the South and Midwest, the music first began to be formally
published in the mid-1890s, and it soon made its way to Europe and other
parts of the world. The Library of Congress recently created this fun and
interesting site which pays homage to this art form through essays, musical
selections, and digitized sheet music. Visitors can browse through the
offerings at their leisure, though they may wish to start their journey by
reading one of the four explanatory essays which cover topics such as "The
History of Ragtime" and "The 'Classic' Rag". 


14)
True identity of Mona Lisa (re)affirmed
Da Vinci's Lisa revealed
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/16/da_vincis_lisa_revealed/

Mona Lisa descendant just grins and bears it
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/294443br>