Economist.com | The future of energy: "By introducing a small but steadily rising tax on petrol, America would do far more to encourage innovation and improve energy security than all the drilling in Alaska's wilderness."

Nice utility to start Java class files in the Windows explorer. (And in the Windows shell. And compile Java source files.) By Marco Tamanti.

So this seems to be Psychology Day. "Memory Morphing" sounds pretty spooky in this Independent article:

In a test by the cognitive psychologist Kathryn Braun-LaTour, a colleague of Zaltman's, participants were served an unpleasant-tasting orange drink spiked with salt and vinegar. They were then shown adverts suggesting the drink was refreshing. Sure enough, many of the participants later reported that they had found the drink refreshing.

Wie die deutsche Zigarettenindustrie die Idee des trojanischen Rohrkrepierers aus einem (sehr lustigen!) amerikanischen Lobbyistenroman in die Tat umsetzt, berichtet Telepolis.

Die Zeit 43 / 2003 - Paulus: Das vorletzte Wort: "So fällt die Strafe höher aus, wenn der Angeklagte arm, alt oder ungebildet ist, sein Anwalt bei Gericht wenig Ansehen genießt oder der Richter an die abschreckende Wirkung drastischer Urteile glaubt."

Chapter 25: Shell Programming: Iteration Statements: So in csh, "foreach" and "end" have to go on different lines. Hmm. (I wanted to list a bunch of zip files' contents under unix.)

Underworld, a movie with a Half-Life mod as a trailer.

Movies from the Computer Chronicles from 1984. Wow. (On the Internet Archive.)

Tip #120 - Compiling Java with Sun JDK (javac) within VIM : vim online