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Published 16:00, 09 December 08

Happy Birthday, John baby :

The 9th of December 2008 is John Milton's 400th birthday. To celebrate this life-long advocate of liberty we've officially launched 'Open Milton' – an open set of Milton's works, together with ancillary information and tools, in a form designed for reuse.

Here you can find the Open Milton web interface. This site provides access to many, but by no means all, of the facilities of the Open Milton package. For example you can:

Read a variety of texts (prose, poems etc) as well as ancillary material
Compare two parts of the same text side-by-side
Analyze text or word statistics
Search any text

(Via Open Access News .)

Posted by Glyn Moody at 6:50 PM

Not the Facebook Virus

Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details.

'Koobface' spreads by sending a message to people's inboxes, pretending to be from a Facebook friend.

It says "you look funny in this new video" or "you look just awesome in this new video".

By clicking on the link provided they're then asked to watch a "secret video by Tom".

When users try and play the video they're asked to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.

If they do, that's when the virus takes hold and attacks the computer.

But only, of course, if they're stupid enough to use Windows (which the story - once again - somehow fails to mention .) Oh, and BTW, it's a worm, not a virus.

Sigh.

Update: At least Charles gets it right .

Posted by Glyn Moody at 2:52 PM

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