New Google calendar! Pros and Cons

SearchEngineWatch likes it a lot but describes the up- and downsides and provides useful links.
  MIT technology adds somewhat more technical info and collected comments.   Sharing aspect is big.
  ITWire points out that "It is operating system agnostic.   All you need is the web browser of your choice.".
  Microsoft has reason to worry.

Dangerous Internet Explorer needs more patching, as ever...

Microsoft releases 5 security updates today while pretending they're "regular" and "routine" -- what's new?

CNet's News.Com explains the "critical" nature of
some of the fixes (while mixing up which patch does what) and points out one little known way a computer can become affected:

"Some of the vulnerabilities in Windows and IE could also be exploited using an HTML e-mail, which essentially is a Web page sent in an e-mail message."

White House happily leaks false info to silence American dissent

Washington Post article re selective leaking of false info to silence Americans who dare to question "leaders."

"One striking feature of that decision -- unremarked until now, in part because Fitzgerald did not mention it -- is that the evidence Cheney and Libby selected to share with reporters had been disproved months before."

I haven't bothered to update the page lately because news is so unremittingly bad.
Will add some photos and video instead soon.