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BREAKING SURF
Rice Genome Mapped
Face Spying at the Super Bowl
Super Bowl Ads
Bad Code Rewarded
The IE 6 Preview Microsoft Didn't Want You to See
eBay Hides E-Mail Addresses
Group Action against Sony Is Next RPG Campaign
N2H2 Aggregates Data on Schoolchildren Surfing
BountyQuest Announces Cash Winners of Prior Patent Art Search
Verio Stands Firm against MPAA over DeCSS
Major Security Problems in BIND
Speaking of Which, Bugtraq Gets a BIND Trojan
Little Known Security Hole in Windows 2000 Encrypted File System
ONLINE CULTURE
Hacking DirecTV
The State of Gnutella
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BREAKING SURF
BS1Rice Genome Mapped
Rice feeds half the world. It's understandably big news that its genome has
just been mapped, the first plant crop to have its DNA sequenced. Using
shotgun sequencing, agriconglomerate Syngenta unraveled the genetic secrets
of the world's most important cereal crop in collaboration with Myriad
Genetics. With conventional methods of plant improvement no longer adequate,
Syngenta plans to apply the information to develop varieties of rice that
can boost production enough to meet the rapidly growing demand. The company
also expects significant spillover into sequencing of major cereals such as
wheat, corn, and barley. Findings from the rice research will be made
available to the academic community through collaboration agreements and
will be available royalty-free for applications involving subsistence
farmers in the developing world.
http://www.syngenta.com/en/media/article.asp?article_id=126
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BS2Face Spying at the Super Bowl
Those of you who follow the evolution of privacy policy in our society will
be interested in this LA Times story. Apparently, the crowd at this year's
Super Bowl was scanned with automated face recognition technology. As people
entered the turnstiles, cameras digitally photographed them and the photos
were compared against a database of known felons and terrorists in real
time. The article quotes law enforcement sources as saying that the camera
identified 19 people with criminal histories, "none of them of a
'significant' nature".
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/todays.topstory.htm
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/todays.topstory.htm>
BS3Super Bowl Ads
If you want to watch something at the Super Bowl other than football or
faces, you can always turn to the commercials. Although in our opinion this
was a weak year for Super Bowl commercials, a couple of winners stood out
from the pack. Wanna see them again? Or, if you live in overly protective
Canada, for the first time? (Canadian broadcasting laws require Canadian ads
to cover American ads on shows that are simulcast on either side of the
border - even on American stations.) We liked the "Pepsi: Rollercoaster" and
"Doritos: Tennis" ads the best, but for even more fun, visit last year's
ads.
http://superbowl.adcritic.com/ <http://superbowl.adcritic.com/>
BS4Bad Code Rewarded
The sheer fun of it and the respect and admiration of your peers - that's
the motivation behind the almost annual International Obfuscated C Code
Contest. Here you'll find this year's IO triple-C winners (and links to
previous years going back to 1984). Whether the place baffles or intrigues
you probably depends on whether or not you program. We suspect you need to
to really get this stuff and to appreciate its subtleties and innate coding
beauty. Categories such as Best Abuse of User, the heralding of fine
examples of compact obfuscation, and the phrase "safe forum for poor C code"
give some indication of the range of perverted standards here. Giving an
award for Worst Abuse of the Rules is a nice touch. But what do you say of
good entries that lost? That they were too good, or not bad enough?
http://www.ioccc.org/index.html <http://www.ioccc.org/index.html>
BS5The IE 6 Preview Microsoft Didn't Want You to See
Microsoft wants to know who leaked a beta version of their IE 6 browser
software to The-Ctrl-Alt-Del.com and FileClicks sites. Supposedly available
only to testers who signed non-disclosure agreements, the software showed up
at the two software enthusiast sites long enough to allow CNet to reach some
conclusions about its features. One ugly finding is a Netscapesque
portalization of the browser, with its annoyingly close integration between
browser and other company software and Web sites. CNet has a screen shot and
other tidbits about the supposedly secret future weapon in the Net wars.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4638824.html?tag=tp_pr
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BS6eBay Hides E-Mail Addresses
In an effort to combat spam, eBay is discontinuing the practice of
disclosing the e-mail addresses of auction participants. The new policy will
also discourage people from communicating outside of eBay channels to avoid
paying auction fees. Apparently, this is a big problem, with certain sellers
undercutting auctions by offering their own products at prices below the
winning bids. The company is setting up its own mail servers to serve as a
buffer between auction participants. Opinion about this move is divided.
Some users like the move because it will cut down on spam, while others are
skeptical that eBay will be able to provide effective communication via
their middleman e-mail service. Some people have raised concern over eBay
having access to the content of the mail between users, though the company
says they won't read it. The actual announcement of the policy can be found
on the eBay announcement page - scroll down to 01/29. ZDNet has reactions.
eBay: http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
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http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2680861,00.html
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BS7Group Action against Sony Is Next RPG Campaign
If you're a dedicated EverQuest player and are among those who recently had
their auction deleted from eBay or another auction site at the request of
Sony, then you may be interested in dropping by Gravityspot.com to join a
class action suit against Sony Computer Entertainment, Verant Interactive,
and others. Sony and Verant, the publisher and developer of EverQuest
respectively, have become more vigilant in their quest to halt trading in
virtual items such as magic capes, powerful swords, and even characters for
real world money. At first, they started banning known real-life item
farmers from the virtual world of EverQuest. Now, Sony is actively asking
auction sites to close down auctions with EverQuest content, and rumor has
it that Verant is even suing some sellers. The idea of playing an online
role playing game for fun and profit is just too good, isn't it? CNet has
more.
Gravityspot.com: http://www.gravityspot.com/classaction2/default.htm
<http://www.gravityspot.com/classaction2/default.htm>
CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4619051.html
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4619051.html>
BS8N2H2 Aggregates Data on Schoolchildren Surfing
N2H2 sells Web-filtering software that blocks in-school access to sites
deemed pornographic or too violent, but MSNBC reports that N2H2 also records
the surfing habits of users and sells the data in aggregate form. A typical
user attends kindergarten through high school. Company officials claim they
only sell user data in a collected form, so no individual could be singled
out, but some school officials and others still aren't comfortable with the
idea, maybe in part because the US Defense Department is purchasing the data
for untold reasons.
N2H2: http://www.n2h2.com/ <http://www.n2h2.com/>
MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/521884.asp
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/521884.asp>
BS9BountyQuest Announces Cash Winners of Prior Patent Art Search
BountyQuest works with companies and others who seek to invalidate patents.
Disputing a patent takes a lot of time and money, and it's cheaper to post a
bounty for information which will help overturn a patent than to do such a
search yourself. Consequently, BountyQuest has been giving away as much as
$10,000 to people who can come up with examples of prior art that can
invalidate a patent. In its latest crop of announcements, BountyQuest has
rewarded winners for evidence of work that precedes patents for downloading
music via the Net, electronic tickets, database copying, and network
routers. There are some neat stories here, and a chance to get some real
money for anyone who's been involved in engineering.
http://www.bountyquest.com/winner/winnermain.htm
<http://www.bountyquest.com/winner/winnermain.htm>
BS10Verio Stands Firm against MPAA over DeCSS
In a refreshing reversal, Internet service provider Verio has refused to
remove or block access to Cryptome, a site that has posted the DVD
encryption cracking program DeCSS. The Motion Picture Association of America
has succeeded in the past at shutting down sites that post the code, but
Verio prefers to let the parties involved work it out rather than instantly
cracking down on a site under threat of a lawsuit. The ever helpful CNet
fills us in.
Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/ <http://cryptome.org/>
CNet: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-4587946-0.html
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-4587946-0.html>
BS11Major Security Problems in BIND
CERT has released a strong advisory regarding BIND, the software which
basically runs the Net's domain name system. At least four different holes
in the software can allow crackers to break in to the system or launch
successful denial of service attacks. New versions of BIND fix these holes
and all sysadmins are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Read the advisory for
details.
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html
<http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-02.html>
BS12Speaking of Which, Bugtraq Gets a BIND Trojan
In an example of social engineering, a cracker posted a program on the
Bugtraq Web security site that supposedly showed examples of how to exploit
recently discovered bugs in the BIND domain name server software. However,
when the program was run, it launched a denial of service attack against
security firm Network Associates (NAI). Fortunately NAI had already patched
a hole in its Web site and the attacks from all the downloaded trojan horses
did not significantly impact the site. Wired has the details. Bugtraq is
hosted at SecurityFocus.com. Look for threads entitled "That BIND8 'exploit'
attacks NAI".
Bugtraq: http://www.securityfocus.com/ <http://www.securityfocus.com/>
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41563,00.html
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41563,00.html>
BS13Little Known Security Hole in Windows 2000 Encrypted File System
The whole point of an encrypted file system (EFS) is to hide files from
view. However, the Windows 2000 EFS implementation apparently suffers from a
fatal flaw. Before a file is encrypted, Windows 2000 EFS makes a backup copy
of the file, which is subsequently deleted. However, as most Windows hackers
know, it's trivial to recover deleted files from Windows machines with a
low-level sector editor. To be fair to Microsoft, it acknowledges this
behavior in the documentation, and the company suggests that users don't
encrypt files but create encrypted folders. Still, how many people are
likely to read the directions that closely? There's a good thread discussing
this issue in the BugTraq archives available at Neohapsis.
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/thread.html#324
<http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-01/thread.html> #324
ONLINE CULTURE
OC1Hacking DirecTV
A positively brilliant feat of hacking brought to light a little known but
exciting war between DirecTV and a dedicated cracking community. Lots of
people want free satellite TV service and a thriving underground trades in
the information and hardware that enable free reception of the encrypted
DirecTV satellite signal. Over time, the advantage has swung back and forth
between DirecTV engineers and crackers as the latter rapidly reverse
engineer the company's new encryption technologies and feed the not-so-black
market. Last month, some sharp engineers at DirecTV initiated an absolutely
beautiful hack that slowly trickled data into DirecTV receivers and on a
designated date assembled itself into a program which disabled all cracked
hardware. This engineering elegance of the highest order has won widespread
admiration in both legit and underground engineering circles. Slashdot has
the background story of the hack, and HackHU (look through Older News)
follows the hour-by-hour details as crackers deal with the situation.
Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml
<http://www.slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml>
HackHU: http://www.hackhu.com/news.htm <http://www.hackhu.com/news.htm>
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OC2The State of Gnutella
Last summer, when it seemed Napster would bite the dust as a result of legal
assault, there was a surge in the use of Gnutella, a peer-to-peer
file-trading network which does not rely on centralized - and legally
vulnerable - servers. Since then, the Gnutella network has both thrived and
fragmented. For a time, Gnutella was overwhelmed with traffic and almost
useless but that has changed with the introduction of numerous technical
changes to Gnutella and the host of software clients used to connect to the
network. Two good links bring the Gnutella story up to date. ZDNet has a
broad overview of the current situation and efforts to roll out Gnutella 2.
O'Reilly has a more in-depth article about the current technical state of
Gnutella, discussing fragmentation of client designs, efforts to make the
network scalable, and the lack of standards. The rapidly mutating beast is
becoming more and more technically sophisticated.
ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679303,00.html
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2679303,00.html>
O'Reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/25/truelove0101.html
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/01/25/truelove0101.html>
OC3George Bush, Expletives, and Google
Wanna hear an amusing tale of search engines gone wrong? For a time, if you
typed the words "dumb motherfucker" into Google's search engine, the top
result would be a site selling President George Bush merchandise. No, this
was not the work of some disgruntled Google employee, but rather an anomaly
in Google's indexing algorithms. An article in HugeDisk e-zine once
published an article that linked to the Bush merchandise site with the
phrase "dumb motherfucker". Google uses links to qualify sites in its
database, and so the search engine would come up with this top link. A
cautionary tale of technology run amok or an eerie oracle from the depths of
the Net? You decide, with Wired's help. Oh, it doesn't work anymore, so
don't bother trying.
Google: http://www.google.com/ <http://www.google.com/>
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41401,00.html
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41401,00.html>
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
AO1Zoran of the Outer Limits
It's rare that a site sucks us in and blows us away, but from the very
second we dropped through the portal, it was obvious that we weren't in
Kansas any more. Even at the entry, the effects are attention-grabbing
without being overpowering. Click on The Outer Limits, then the left-most
red-and-blue orb, read the history, then settle in for an outstanding Flash
movie. You can't access all the content in The Outer Limits section but more
is promised and, quite frankly, we can't wait. The special effects are
amazing, and the detail, in terms of history and working documentation, is
of a quality seldom found anywhere let alone coherently presented. Had
enough? Trust us - you haven't. Pop into the Web Design section for, among
other things, a cogent presentation on the pluses and minuses of Flash, the
Ten Commandments of good site design, and more. Had your fill yet? Like the
Alice's Restaurant Thanksgiving Dinner That Couldn't Be Beat, more and more
servings follow. Check out the gallery. You can get lost in either the
analogue or the digital content. Take a few hours out of your day; give the
place a visit. We're pretty sure you'll bookmark it.
http://www.zoran.nl/ <http://www.zoran.nl/>
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AO2The Films for the Future
Movie lists tend to generate controversy, especially in the season of Golden
Globes and Academy Awards. Moviegoers with long memories will find much to
explore, rediscover, ponder, and debate through the US National Film
Registry. This retro page of instant-recognition links lists the 25 films
each year that the National Film Preservation Board (established by the
Library of Congress) has chosen since 1989 to preserve on the basis of
cultural, historical, or esthetic importance. Each title is linked to its
record in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), which provides writing
credits, plot summaries, cast profiles, and other background. Students in
film school may want to save this list for quick retrieval. If video rental
stores had Web access, this site would make an excellent launchpad.
Registry: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Movies/NFR-Titles.html
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Movies/NFR-Titles.html>
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/ <http://www.imdb.com/>
AO3The Focused Art Search Engine
The resourceful Norwegians at Twoclickaway, who have already graced us with
Last Minute News and Last Minute Search, have entered the art information
business with Last Minute Art, a search engine whose quite literal results
are limited to direct references. A search here for glass artist Dale
Chihuly, one of the most mentioned artists online, came up with only his Web
site; a query of "Guggenheim" brings up the various museum sites and nothing
more. But if you need to locate specific items, it certainly lets you find
them without wading through acres of other mentions.
http://www.lastminuteart.com/ <http://www.lastminuteart.com/>
BOOKS & E-ZINES
NBRNetsurfer Recommendations
Items our staff likes and you might too. Click on the image or title to
order at a hefty discount from our affiliate Amazon.com, and send a few
pennies our way as well.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395977894/netsurferdigest> Fast
Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd); ISBN: 0395977894
We all know that fast food is bad for us, and this book shows us just how
bad. It's not just that the dietary quality of fast food is bad. Other
second order effects also come into play - the underpaid workforce, the
ever-popular problematic meat-packing plants, the destructive farming
practices which ultimately supply the gaping maws of fast-food consumers.
Muckraking journalism to be sure, and a rather forceful punch in our
collective fast-food gobbling gut. Read it before you suck down another
burger.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620031/netsurferdigest> It's
Your Money: The E*TRADE Step-by-Step Guide to Online Investing
Christos M. Cotsakos
Harperbusiness; ISBN: 0066620031
OK, so the online stock bubble burst and nobody's too interested in online
trading anymore. At least that's the conventional wisdom. Actually, the
smart money is more than likely playing the contrarian game. So many
companies' stocks are so beaten down these days that there are real bargains
out there (AAPL, anyone?). Over the long term, the stock market is a wealth
machine, and these days the only sane way to invest is online. This book
will tell you how. Yes, the book is E*Trade-centric, but let's face it, they
are the 800-pound gorilla of the industry. This one should be on every
investor's reference shelf.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XQ83/netsurferdigest> O
Brother, Where Art Thou? [SOUNDTRACK]
Various Artists
Uni/Mercury Nashville; ASIN: B00004XQ83
The quirky new film from the ever-quirky Coen brothers is loosely - very
loosely - based on Homer's
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374525749/netsurferdigest> Odyssey.
The real treat of the movie is surely the soundtrack. The wonderful melange
of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and gospel is just different enough from
the usual examples of those music types to make it almost post-modern. Give
it a go; it may sound adventurous if you're not a country or bluegrass fan,
but much of it is actually transcendent.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/netsurferdigest>
BEZ4Open-Content Encyclopedia
Nupedia.com, the open-content encyclopedia project, has launched its new
system and is accepting articles on almost anything. The concept is simple -
build an open-content encyclopedia from articles submitted by the public and
arrange the articles in a searchable database. Nupedia.com has a long way to
go to compete against Britannica and Encarta, which both offer a wealth of
free encyclopedic content. Unlike other sites, however, Nupedia.com is not
shy about requesting help in writing, reviewing, copy-editing, and managing
the process. Everyone drop by with an article.
http://www.nupedia.com/ <http://www.nupedia.com/>
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BEZ5Kodak's Photography eMagazine
You don't have to be a photographer to enjoy Kodak eMagazine. Eastman Kodak
stuffs an impressive combination of galleries and features into this new
monthly. For example, "The Clinton Years: Snapshots of a Presidency" is a
well-constructed, if not exciting, collection of black-and-white photos by
Kodak-sponsored White House photographer Robert McNeeley. January's
prominent feature on fashion and portrait photographer Victor Skrebneski is
slick, though a little buggy in our reviewer's IE 5.0 browser. Photographers
may gravitate to Tips of the Month, which has a subtle and predictable focus
on film, not digital, photography. Many visitors will likely prefer to
cruise the Features archive, a varied treasure trove of enjoyable exhibits.
Check out Eric Meola's retrospective "Last Places on Earth".
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/magazine/
<http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/magazine/>
BEZ6The Travel Photo Workshop Newsletter
Photojournalist Kenneth Wajda uses his Travel Photo Workshop Newsletter to
disseminate fine writing and practical advice. His first two issues
(December 2000 and January 2001) contain several articles apiece. We wanted
to read "The Case against Digital Cameras" (December), but the link to that
was broken. The reassuring tone of his "Waiting for the Light" piece in the
January issue will appeal to nascent photographers: "The light makes the
photo.... You have to wait for the light. It makes the picture. You just
have to be there to capture it." Your powers of discrimination may well
benefit from other short essays such as "What's a Good Negative, Anyway?"
and "Slides for Maximum Impact". We look forward to February's offerings,
including "Fantastic Portraits without any Fancy Equipment." Despite its
navigational glitches, this newsletter has a nice look and feel that
complements Wajda's insight.
http://kennethwajda.com/Newsletter/index.htm
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SURFING SCIENCE
SCI1Postal Experiments
The Annals of Improbable Research has a published a story we love but about
which the United States Postal Service (USPS) probably has differing
feelings. Irrepressible investigators probed the limits of USPS tolerance by
mailing odd, visibly valuable, smelly, unwrapped, suspicious, heavy and
other types of objects, and recording delivery success or failure, delivery
time, and postal staff comments. Oh, the insatiable, irresistible thrust of
science, the thirst to experiment, and the quest to reduce chaos and
uncertainty to measurable parameters - it thrills us! To their credit, the
USPS withstood the deliberate abuse well, and investigators concluded that
"the USPS appears to have some collective sense of humor, and might in fact
here be displaying the rudiments of organic bureaucratic intelligence."
We're not suggesting you ignore the manual, as these fearless investigators
did, but it's nice to know that those who toil for the Eagle service are
tolerant of transgressors. Pushing the envelope, indeed!
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html
<http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html>
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SCI2A Series of Small Walls
Eddie Izzard has a wonderful piece in "Glorious" in which he describes how
archaeology doesn't fit into the speed of modern society. We don't want to
see people with brushes meticulously dusting away thousands of years of
sediment; we want massive bulldozers tearing through the layers of dirt,
sending skulls and shards of pottery flying until we reach what every
archaeological dig finds - a series of small walls. Go to Archaeologica to
find out where the latest small walls have been discovered and read about
the complexities of foreign policy when it involves countries that no longer
exist.
http://www.archaeologica.org/ <http://www.archaeologica.org/>
SCI3Census Consensus
It cost Uncle Sam $56 per housing unit to compile the US census in 2000, up
from $31 in 1990. Those are two of many facts reported by econometrician and
former Census Bureau official Warren Glimpse, Ph.D. on his Census 2000 Data
Access and Use site. Visitors are assumed to have some familiarity with
bureaucratese - you won't find snappy USA Today highlights here. Under the
heading "Why this Web site is Important to You", we learn that information
here "is for and from the perspective of the data user." In essence, Doctor
Glimpse has skewed his site for statisticians, librarians, school and city
officials, and other researchers who need to make sense of year 2000 census
data. Fortunately, if you have difficulty, you can send a question to him
through his "Ask a Question" form on the home page.
http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm
<http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm>
SOFTWARE
SW1Apache 1.3.17 Available
The Apache Group has announced the release of the 1.3.17 version of the
Apache Web server. This release primarily fixes bugs, addressing some broken
functionality present in the 1.3.14 release and various Win32 issues. More
information and download links are available at the Apache Web site.
httpd.apache.org/ <http://httpd.apache.org/>
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT
CS1Give, Spot, Give
GiveSpot.com is a portal site enrobed in context. The site consists of a
series of volunteer and philanthropy links the creators have evaluated and
categorized, but it incorporates those links into areas of similar interest,
such as a feature on how to get a job in a non-profit agency. A paragraph
will explain one tactic, then provide a few links, outlining what makes each
site unique. There's even a link for donating blood online; we can just
imagine the lancet coming out of the mouse to see if your iron content is
sufficient. The technology isn't there yet - fortunately.
http://www.givespot.com/ <http://www.givespot.com/>
CS2Another Click-to-Give Site
What would you think if with one click you could plant a tree, donate
vitamins, or save the rainforests? That's the design of the Daily Donation
page, which provides free donations to 48 charities with a single click of
the mouse. It may be animal-friendly, but it's not entirely
browser-friendly. To take advantage of the page, you must be using a browser
that supports inline frames, but you probably are. (The site claims you need
Netscape 6, but Netscape 4 worked fine for us). Said frames, on the results
page, let you see the ads of the sponsors who are enabling the donations.
http://www.wiseup.org/donate/ <http://www.wiseup.org/donate/>
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