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What Should I Read Next

What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular overall books at What Should I Read Next?

I liked it!

I didn't like it!

I want to read it!

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

1984 - George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

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It Rubs The Lotion On It's Skin

For all you Silence of the Lambs fans.
Greenskeepers- It Rubs The Lotion On It's Skin on Transbuddha

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Worms, Viruses and Spyware

That's right Apple users, now you, too can know the joy of virus scanning and spyware thanks to the new Boot Camp beta software announced Wednesday. In case you haven't heard, this will allow users of the newiMac 17-inch 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo to boot Windows XP. It also now makes your Apple vulnerable to all of the malicious spyware, adware, worms and viruses that previously were only a plague for Windows users.

Hackers every where are drinking a toasts to Boot Camp tonight. My guess is the people over at McAfee probably aren't too disappointed either.

Mario Attack!?

Five teenager girls, ages 16 and 17, are facing possible criminal charges following an April's Fools prank that brought out the bomb squad in the small town of Ravenna, Ohio.

According to reports across the Internet, the girls made life-sized power-up boxes similar to those in the Nintendo Super Mario Brothers game. The cardboard boxes were covered in shiny, gold wrapping paper and had black question marks on the side.

Seventeen boxes were left hanging around the town of about 12,000 residents which lead authorities to call in the county's hazardous materials unit and the bomb squad.

So, wait, a town of 12,0000 people has a bomb squad?

The idea for the prank apparently came from Qwantz.com. The Web site owners say the purpose of the boxes is to "bring a smile to people's faces, to get them to connect with their neighbors, to bring color into an otherwise grey urban landscape."

I guess the police in Ravenna, Ohio didn't get much of a smile out of it. And I bet those girls didn't either, but is this really what our country has come to. Jailing teenage girls over a silly prank. My bet is the police chief just wanted to show off his fancy new bomb squad equipment.

A bomb squad being called out for a Mario box. Yeah, because I'm sure Ravenna, Ohio is high up on the al Quida target list.

Firefox Growing in Popularity

The number of people using Firefox, Apple's Safari and other non-Microsoft based Web browsers is growing, according to data released this week from NetApplications.

NetApplications; a leader in Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise; announced this week through its monthly Web site traffic analysis that Firefox use reached 10 percent of the total Internet browser use. While Microsoft continued to be the most used with 85 percent of the market, Safari also gained a tenth of a percentage point growing to nearly 3 percent of the total market.

The data was collected from over 40,000 Hitslink.com-monitored global Web sites and compiled from global traffic statistics from Web sites tracked by NetApplications' Hitslink.com.

Firefox

If you're still using Windows Interet Explorer and hating it, after all who doesn't hate, then you need to check out Mozilla's Firefox internet browser. I've all but said so long to every other browser.

Firefox 1.5 has blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It’s easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful features like tabbed browsing, Live Bookmarks, and an integrated Search bar, Firefox will change the way you experience the Web, for the better.

Like Pimps and Hos

Vivid Video, a leading producer of adult-oriented films, as announced they will begin offering movies for download over the Internet for $25 each starting beginning April 3. The only catch is you will be able to burn them to a DVD only once.

I am not surprised that the adult industry is taking the first steps in bringing downloadable movies for purchase to the Web. The porn industry goes together with the Internet like pimps and hos.

The people who want porn delivered to their front door, and be honest, who doesn't, will make this a huge success. The convenience of it alone should attract the people who don't want to go to the local adult toy store.

The only question is can the professional porn industry compete with the huge number of online amateurs willing to show it for free? Any thoughts about that?

"If you took all of the porn off the Internet there would be only one Web site left, and it would be called Bring Back the Porn." - Dr. "The Man" Cox.