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Well, “they” cracked Cyber Patrol 4. Its nice to see another blow land against censorware. As usual, this issue has been framed by wiser than I, so I point you to some /. articles concerning the case.

The Breaking of Cyber Patrol 4
Mattel Dislikes Being Embarrassed
Mattel/Cyber Patrol Censors Critics Again

Overt was one of the lucky sites to actually get an email from Mattel’s lawyer, just scare tactics, really. Scared me. The text and attachments of the email are available here.

I’ve begun work on an advocacy page, which will eventually contain information regarding all of the things I whine idealistically about.

overt.org now has a delicious, nutritious quote of the day at the top of the sidebar. yum!

I’ve finally gotten around to posting a howto for joining Ship of Fools, and all of the statistics seem to be working alright. I’m now going to start work on a thorough techno-advocacy page, and allowing (authorized) users to post updates to overt. Then I may add what seems to be the only real draw to personal web sites: pictures! Who knows, maybe my IP logs will turn up more than localhost for once…

I know, its been all SETI stuff recently. I have extended the “smart agent” on the Ship of Fools page to obtain information on specific users that is not available on the general team page. Just click on a team member name in the stats table and a windowlet with the all available user stats should appear. I have moved the user information to a small database to facilitate manipulation, but data antiquation shouldn’t be a problem since the statistics are updated from SETI@home each time they are viewed. Beware that the Javascript support of Netscape 4.0x is sketchy at best, and you may have some problems viewing the pop-up windows if you are running this or an earlier version. Please let me know of any bugs you experience; I am more likely the cause than you!