THE REGISTER: Hacking credit cards is preposterously easy

Surveillance in the supermarket will have you pegged, thanks to IBM. Me, I don’t even let them track my buying habits by scanning in the “discount card” at the register.

Japanese using GPS/Cellular to track wandering, confused elders who lose their way.

You may “catch a heart attack on the subway or on the bus.”

Be an Irish Catholic Priest.com

I’ve always wondered what ex-CIA renegade Phillip Agee has been up to. Apparently continuing to provoke the US government by encouraging tourism to Cuba.

Clinical trials of brain-protecting drugs prove unsuccessful: very disappointing news for aging baby-boomers, hopeful neurologists, and pharmaceutical companies seeking new cash cow, reported at the annual winter meeting of the American Stroke Association.

Pahrump saga continues: Radio host Art Bell says he’s retiring…again.

Calculate and celebrate your Decimal Birthday.

12 March 2000: latest of periodic journal entries from Sir Ian McKellan, describing his experiences on the set of the upcoming Lord of the Rings film, in which he plays Gandalf.

NASA’s Report of the Mars Program Independent Assessment Team. As you’ve heard by now, they acknowledge how faulty the planning process and quality assurance on the missions was.