Pascal Van Hecke - Daily Links

"The 'micro-blogging' service Twitter gives you 140 characters to answer the question "What are you doing?" The answers, or tweets, are then broadcast to friends. It's a simple premise but internet consultant and author Clay Shirky argues as the service continues to grow, it's creating a complex and influential new way to communicate"

Slate reporter finds some simple ways to cooperate in a DOS attack:
"Paranoid that the Kremlin's hand is everywhere, we risk underestimating the great patriotic rage of many ordinary Russians, who, having been fed too much government propaganda in the last few days, are convinced that they need to crash Georgian Web sites. Many Russians undoubtedly went online to learn how to make mischief, as I did. Within an hour, they, too, could become cyberwarriors." (via lvb.net)

Japanese tabbed web browser, released by Fenrir & Co.
The browser's layout engine can be changed to either Internet Explorer's Trident or Mozilla's Gecko. (support for the Gecko engine limited)
Sleipnir had 6.0% of market share in Japan at September 2006.