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...feature. Wikipedia is a free open-source encyclopedia, which basically means that anyone can log on and add to or edit it. And they do. It has a stunning 1.5 million entries in 76 languages-and counting. Academics are upset by what they see as info anarchy. (An Encyclopaedia Britannica editor once compared Wikipedia to a public toilet seat because you don't know who used it last.) Loyal Wikipedians argue that collaboration improves articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers...
...three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking at your PC will know what sites you've visited...
...unapologetically off-center about our approach to hip-hop. Boston is actually a great place for this kind of music.” The Indefinite Article will be recording their debut EP this summer, as will Kinkopf, under the moniker Father Abraham. Check out www.indef-art.com for more info...
...worthy of a B movie. Last week former military intelligence agent Pierre Martinet claimed that while working for Canal Plus' internal security unit, he'd been assigned to a secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort by channel security bosses "to discredit Gaccio by discovering outrageous information from his private life." Martinet says Gaccio was targeted as a leader of Canal Plus' famously feisty staff...
...listings held by Yell.com, the online version of the U.K.'s Yellow Pages, and augmented with detailed maps showing the precise location of the desired establishments. Follow a link and Google Local will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop window." For Google, and its competitors like Yahoo!, local search advertising has become a hot new revenue stream; last...