Woohoo! Finally some useful update to Google Mail. No idea how long this feature was there, I just noticed it today: 1. usage log, 2. Signing out other sessions.
Sometimes one would forget to log out from gmail at work, so the remote signout feature is a godsend. Also the log is a convenient way to see if somebody (jealous partner?) is snooping your emails.

I've seen a lot of bad shit go down, including Weezer on the Windows 95 installation CD, but man, the Vista song and a fake Bruce Springsteen? Come on. Microsoft has lost it's respect, if it ever gained any after Windows ME again.

My head hurts.

I always find it amusing to read about notebooks using Glare-Type displays. I mean, glare is nothing that would make me say: "Yay! That's what I'm looking for on my screen, here's my cash!". I guess that's why most companies got creative and started using some non-sense brand names like Clear SuperView or Toughened Optical Glass.

But, that's some sweet prices on these notebooks...

Wikihistory is a funny short story about revert-wars in a fictional time-traveller forum ("International Association of Time Travelers"). Anybody who had a look at a talk/ history page on Wikipedia previously will be reminded of similar invisible wars going on on hot/ sensitive topics there too.

At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

Via boingboing

Few days after my last anti-terrorism post, UK does it again. This time it's the Heathrow Airport, fingerprinting all domestic flight passengers:

Heathrow airport first to fingerprint
Without the biometric checks, the company says, potential criminals and illegal immigrants arriving on international flights or in transit to another country could bypass border controls by swapping boarding passes with a domestic passenger who has already checked in.

Oh, really. Let's all hope, UK's surveillance delusion does not spread to other European countries like a virus (we all know it does), otherwise when we get old, our future will look like the picture on the right...
Story found on Slashdot