This may be the most common break in the security chain. Management review.

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071122113943904

(follow-up) U.K. Tax Office Says Computers Alerted Employees to Data Loss

Thursday, November 22 2007 @ 11:39 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches

The U.K. government department at the heart of a probe into how tax officials lost personal data and bank details on 25 million people said the computer system would have alerted senior staff that the information was being downloaded.

``It would normally come out in a printout and be passed to a senior manager,'' Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for Revenue and Customs, said in an interview. “You would know about it. It would immediately raise an alarm.''

The comments lend weight to claims yesterday by the opposition Conservatives that senior officials at Revenue and Customs had authorized the release of the data. [If the notification's purpose is to alert management so they can stop data theft, isn't failure to act an indication that the action was approved? Bob] Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, who called the data loss ``catastrophic,'' said it was the result of a junior member of staff breaking the rules.

Source - Bloomberg

Another not-so-pressing need.

Ziepod.com - Helping You Reach and Manage Podcasts

Ziepod.com is a tool that helps you find and manage audio content for your iPod. When you use Ziepod.com you can find and rate different podcasts. Ziepod.com helps you find podcast by allowing you to easily subscribe to them and by giving you pop up notifications of when there is new content or episodes.

The Ziepod is free but only deals with audio podcasts. For video and audio management you can look at Ziepod+ which you can buy on the site.

http://www.ziepod.com/

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What are the most intellectually stimulating podcasts?

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What podcasts will make me more intelligent just by listening to them?

It surprises me that there aren't more sites like this – collections on a (more or less) narrow topic...

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/psychantenna--Find-Psych-Related-Sites-via-RSS/

PsychAntenna.com - Find Psych Related Sites via RSS

PsychAntenna is a portal for discovering psychology related sites, blogs, reviews, and podcasts using RSS feeds. Users will first need to grab an RSS reader of their choice. Next, they can search through the site’s database to find content that matches their interest. The preview button can be used to get a glimpse of that site’s focus. Lastly, users subscribe to sites by hitting the subscribe button. Sites are arranged by type, e.g. blogs, journals, websites, and podcasts.

http://www.psychantenna.com/

This has a ways to go, but a very interesting idea! (Want to bet the publishers pay to have their authors included?)

http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/bookvideos--Go-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Your-Fav-Books/

BookVideos.tv - Go Behind the Scenes of Your Fav Books

BookVideos.tv is a social community site which deals with books, their authors, and video. The highlight of BooksVideos are, of course, the author videos. It is here that you get an up close and personal glimpse of some of your favorite authors along with their take on the writing process, principle themes, and their inspirations.

http://www.bookvideos.tv/science_fiction/index.html

Make your kids play this online game! (Now think of a site where you get rewarded for doing your homework...)

http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/moola--A-Great-and-Possibly-Lucrative-Time-Waster/

Moola.com - A Great and Possibly Lucrative Time Waster

Moola describes itself as the first ‘massively multiplayer rewards game’. Basically, it’s not only a super entertaining time waster, it’s also a potentially lucrative way to counter-productively while away work hours. Anyone, you included, can win up to $10.7 million dollars (that’s real money, nothing of that Linden stuff), simply by engaging in a little playtime. You get a penny upon signing up. From there, you’re supposed bet that penny against other users in games of chance/skill. Whoever wins takes the pennies and moves up a level. The loser gets a penny to start over again. To win the millions you’ll have to win 30 times in a row. You’ll need to sign up for an instant invite, and before each game there’s a short commercial, but if it gives you the winning penny, that’s really not much to ask of you. So far, over 4 million dollars have been won in the games.

http://www.moola.com/moopubs/login/index.jsp

Interesting stuff, if you have the tools...

http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/09/photoshop-text-effect-tutorial/

Photoshop Text Effects Round-Up: 51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See

Posted by Justin

Text and the way it looks is a major part of any design. A great design can be cheapened if the text on the page looks wrong. Any logo is almost entirely text. From water to fire, these 51 tutorials will show you how to create any style of text you want.