Tijuana is assigned the area code of the beast, and isn't happy about it. Apparently they're concerned it will it will worsen their already violent image. According to Telmex, Tijuana is switching from 6 to 666. [via Robot Wisdom]

NANPA, the North American Numbering Plan Administration, has all you want to know about US area codes. The Canadian Numbering Administrator has the similar information for Canada.

The CIA tried to catch or kill bin Ladin three years ago.

Disney has postponed a trip to China to study the feasibility of building a theme park there before the 2006 Olympics.

Blair says he's been shown evidence of bin Laden link.

The Observer reports that American and Britain plan to target the drug stockpiles bin Laden is planning to release onto the market. They are also reporting that terrorist camps identified by special forces will be struck in the next 48 hours.

The Spirograph Nebula

The NY Times has a full translation of the hijacker's letter. [via anfin]

In Defense of Freedom [via Follow Me Here]

Via /.: Enterprise crew split over violating prime directive, intervening to save Earth from itself.

British terrorism suspect is fighting extradiction, so Parliament is working on an emergency law that would apply retroactively.

A British journalist has been seized by the Taliban.

Via Virulent Memes: Taliban is preparing to flood the West with cheap heroin.

Via abuddhas memes: Janes has an article on the unmanned planes being used.

Ultraviolet picture of the sun from SOHO.

First steps toward teleportation. A preprint of the Nature paper is here.

Via dangerousmeta: One of bin Laden's banks hacked.

Unlikely Doves: Counter-terrorism Experts.

Researchers are planning to create black holes with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The preprint of the Physical Review Letters paper is here.

An article on the international law applying to Bush's war.

Kickoff

The Emperor's New Clothes: Piercing a Fog of Lies

Psychoceramics: The Study of Crackpots

Via Borklog: An annotated script for the Enterprise pilot.

Via The Obscure Store: Comic art predicts real life.

Via ResearchBuzz: A movie review database.

Via Memepool: Lexical FreeNet lets you play with the relationships between words.

Dealing with clueless helpdesk techs, the Dilbert way.

Oh what a surprise, another Outlook virus.

The first photos from Deep Space 1's Comet Borrelly encounter are up. BBC story is here.

Via dangerousmeta: Another case of Defining Terrorism 101.

Linked everywhere: A new LOTR trailer is up.

Via Rebecca's Pocket: Book forager

Oops... foreignaffairs.com is not the magazine I expected. This is what I was looking for, honest.

Foreign Affairs (no, not that one), has full text of many of their previous articles on the Taliban, bin Laden, and terrorism available.

Via /.: Someone's ported SirCam to Linux, under Wine.

Via The Obscure Store: There's such a thing as going too far for patriotism.

Via rc3: Gartner Group is recommending that business move away from IIS.

Via /.: This analysis of the ATA shows that hacking is a terrorist act, subject to life imprisonment.

Neat photo of the sun.

Via Borklog: Romance novels for mutants.

Via lgf: "Citing worldwide reaction to last week's terrorists attacks, multi national terror network Al Qaeda announced Thursday that it would lay off 5,000 or more holy warriors."

Also from lgf: Satellite photos of a bin Laden training camp.

Deep Space 1 made it past the comet and is sending back 32 pictures of the nucleus. Space.com's story is here.

A French scientists thinks he's pinpointed Atlantis to being close to the Straits of Gibraltar.

Why geeks don't get dates, part one and two.

What's the first thing implemented on a new computer? Games, of course. Physics News Update has a summary of the implementation of Prisoners' Dilemma on a quantum computer.

Clockless processors: We don't need no stinkin' gigahertz.

Disruptive technologies from DARPA.

Some Pakistani couples are starting to name their kids Osama.

A background reading list on terrorism and the Taliban from The Economist.

Polymorphic type inference for the relational algebra

Implementing arithmetic with type systems - division by zero becomes a type error.

Via CamWorld: rm -rf /bin/laden

Via Memepool: EFF has the draft of the Ashcrofts' Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.

Via Memepool: An English translation of the Koran.

Via Bifurcated Rivets: A photo gallery of abandoned places.

Makefile achieves self-awareness

Via NewsTrolls: Puffins are back at Eastern Egg Rock off Maine, thanks to Project Puffin.

Deep Space 1 is making a close fly-by of Comet Borrelly today. It's not expected to survive.

Another one from NewsTrolls: Hacker alters news stories on Yahoo.

Defining terrorism may be a sticking point as Bush builds his coalition. China says it's willing to help, but will it ask for help in dealing what it sees as terrorists? (via the null device in a round about way).

Asiamedia is collecting reactions from Asia.

The attack last Tuesday registered on seisographs with the same intensity as a magnitude 2.4 earthquake.

Via Borklog: News about morons.

Again, via Borklog: Debunked and verified rumors of the disaster and it's aftermath, brought to you by the Urban Legends people.

Via Bifurcated Rivets: Pawn Pusher - poking fun at a serious game.

Hackers respond to the attacks. Taliban quaking?

Via Follow Me Here: An American Prospect article points out that the attack was a "faith based initiative".

Via Robot Wisdom: Dundee Satellite Receiving Station offers free images from GOES East, from NOAA, SeaStar and Terra satellites. This one from GOES East shows the U.S. with Gabrielle in the Atlantic.

A new docking module was attached to the space station yesterday.

Via Memepool: The Terrorism Research Center

Tampa Tribune has an article on the local K-9 team that was sent to New York.

Via Borklog: The space station was able to see the plume.

Via Scripting News: Here's now to rebuild it.

Via Memepool: One of many databases for registering people known safe.

ResearchBuzz has a long list of related links.

Via Follow Me Here: Stratfor has short summaries of the updating situation.

The guy that led the McDonalds game piece scam gave one of the stolen game pieces worth a million dollars to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They'll get to keep the money. The CNN story is here.

Via Flutterby: Leave it to a drug dealer to bring a rocket launcher to a gun fight.

Via Memepool: Daily haiku.

Via lgf: One man's art is another man's lunch.

Via Kuro5hin: A new bill, the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, would make it a crime to build a computer without government approved security built in. Here's a summary from Politech.

Companies are finding unexpected benefits from environmental activities.

The Solar Electric Light Fund is bringing solar power to areas of third world countries without access to electricity. The NY Times article is here.

Via Robot Wisdom: Is Fischer back, playing anonymously online? Some game transcripts have been offered up as proof. A newsgroup post in May claiming to be from an ICC administrator supporting this theory started quite an uproar in alt.chess.ics.

Don't everyone jump up at once, now.

NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project references SCI's gravity research as directly applicable.

Via Dangerous Meta: The US Space Command identified the meteor that burned up over the north east US this morning as a 1975 Russian rocket booster.

Chandra caught the Milky Way's central black hole in action last year.

Some things never change: August 1901 and 2001.

Y'all make up your minds, I'll just make another pot. [Stuffed Dog]

Via Technology Review: Nature has an overview of the recent parasitic computing experiment.

Janet Reno announced for governor of Florida today.

MirCorp is trying Plan B. Stories at CNN and space.com.

Via Follow Me Here: These folks seem to think they've created antigravity. Turns out this is rerun: In 1998, Wired ran a long article on the Podkletnov and the people looking at his work. Response has been mainly dismissive, but NASA did fund some research into it, awarding the work to Superconductive Components. Results are due this year.