It appears from the content of this video that this University of Florida professor -- whom everyone has to take in the business school -- got REALLY REALLY REALLY HIGH before one of his classes.  As I am told, he was fired the next day...

A small utility called FairUse4WM has been making the rounds for the past month and it has been giving the people at Microsoft quite a headache. The utility is able to strip Windows PlaysForSure media files of their digital rights management (DRM) allowing for unlimited playback and distribution.

Microsoft patched the first exploit a few days after its initial release only to see the author of FairUse4WM adapt to the new changes. Now we see that Microsoft is in full-blown attack mode and the Redmond-based company claims that it has developed a patch to render FairUse4WM 1.2 useless. But for every patch that Microsoft releases, there will likely be another update for FairUse4WM to get the ball rolling again.
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Experiments led by Piotr Winkielman, of the University of California, San Diego, and published in the current issue of Psychological Science, suggest that judgments of attractiveness depend on mental processing ease, or being "easy on the mind."

"What you like is a function of what your mind has been trained on," Winkielman said. "A stimulus becomes attractive if it falls into the average of what you've seen and is therefore simple for your brain to process. In our experiments, we show that we can make an arbitrary pattern likeable just by preparing the mind to recognize it quickly."

I am looking for an app that I can just click and it will enable or disable proxy server in IE for when I am at work vs. when I am at home.  I would prefer it to be an icon in the Quick Launch area rather than using resources as an icon in the task bar if at all possible.

It’s easy to assume that unconferences, the popular trend in tech-sector events, require little thought on the part of session organizers. The myth is that by choosing to do an unconference, special magic will trickle down into all the sessions, blooming into dozens of beautiful flowers of enlightened communal experience...