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CNSNews.com: ’60 Minutes’ Documents on Bush Might Be Fake.

“The 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by the CBS News program ’60 Minutes,’ shedding a negative light on President Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program, according to typography experts.

Three independent typography experts told CNSNews.com they were suspicious of the documents from 1972 and 1973 because they were typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today’s Microsoft Word program.”

Wired News: Net Publishing Made Profitable. “After 13 years of experimenting, veteran Net publisher Adam Engst has finally stumbled on a good business model — fast-turnaround e-books. — The books are written by a small stable of independent authors, who receive 50 percent royalties, a rate unheard of in traditional publishing. Edited collaboratively over the Net, the books are published ‘within moments of going to press’ as small, downloadable PDF files.”

MacDevCenter: Further Your CS Development with Mac OS X. “From what I’ve seen in the past few years, Mac OS X offers the best combination to satisfy your inner geek and get your day-to-day tasks out of the way. Sometimes you want to explore, other times you just want to avoid hassles and get your work done. — It’s like getting the qualities of Linux and Windows you really want and need without dual booting. But it’s even better because the integration and overall design of Mac OS X meld the best of both worlds.”

Yahoo! News: Gorilla Seeks Help Using Sign Language. “About a month ago, Koko, a 300-plus-pound ape who became famous for mastering more than 1,000 signs, began telling her handlers at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside she was in pain. They quickly constructed a pain chart, offering Koko a scale from one to 10. When Koko started pointing to nine or 10 too often, a dental appointment was made. And because anesthesia would be involved, her handlers used the opportunity to give Koko a head-to-toe exam.”

Popular Science -lehdellä on hyvin kirjoitettu artikkeli Tech ’54, Where Are You?, jossa lehden toimittaja elää kymmenen päivää vuodessa 1954, ajassa ilman keinokuituja ja postinumeroita. Ja kuten toimittajakin huomaa, 1954 oli hyvä vuosi; isäni syntyi silloin.