The Digital Bits has a big section on the Star Wars: Episode 1 DVD, including a review of the massive 2-disc set, screenshots of the menu screens, and a transcript of a Q&A; session at Skywalker Ranch. The sad news is the episode 4-6 DVDs won\’t be released until after the episode 3 DVD.

Hackers took it upon themselves to attack Taliban-related websites. The Taliban has websites? Do they even have the infrastructure for internet access in Afghanistan?

Engineers Tackle Havoc Beneath Trade Center. Interesting article about problems that might arise when the rubble in the basement is dug out.

Silicon Film suspended operations today. Their product, the EFS-1 Electronic Film System, would\’ve allowed a regular film SLR camera to take digital photos.

A rather unsettling thought: Hijacking Clues May Be Red Herrings

The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon Sept. 11 practiced near-perfect operational planning, coordination and execution before their mission but left behind obvious evidence leading to other operatives who may have supported the hijackings. This begs the question of whether these evidence trails were intentionally left in order to distract U.S. law enforcement from other terrorists.

[ From Signal vs. Noise ]

Here\’s a good article about the structural design of the World Trade Center towers and why they collapsed. It has commentary by several engineers, as well as one of the original architects of the WTC.
[ From Slashdot ]

I\’m back home in Pasadena now. I went to San Francisco with my parents on Thursday and we came back today. It was kind of a spur-of-the-moment trip actually, as we were supposed to go to Niagara Falls and then Toronto, but I don\’t think anyone wants to fly right now. Anyway, SF was fun. Everybody in the city was carrying on like normal, almost as if nothing had happened on Tuesday. Well, when we were in Sausalito there was a moment when a plane or a helicopter noisily flew by overhead and everybody worriedly looked up. I guess we should try to get back to our normal, daily lives, but it\’s hard to forget last Tuesday\’s events.

I\’m done with finals! And I\’m done with college! Woohoo! Now I gotta pack up and move out of my apartment.

I\’m at a loss for words. I still can\’t believe the scale of the terrorist attacks. They hijacked 4 planes at the same time, crashed 1 into the Pentagon, and completely destroyed the World Trade Center with another 2. I overheard people talking about it in class this morning and I thought they were joking. I just couldn\’t believe something like this could happen. I\’ll never forget this day.

I forgot to mention that my new roommate moved in Saturday. See, the guy who was originally my roommate, Geoff, was subletting from this other guy Jason. Geoff moved out and now Jason is living here. The thing is, I\’m moving out in 2 days so I only have to live with Jason for 2 days.

This is the perfect opportunity to do all the things to my roommate that I\’ve always wanted to do. Such as the things on this list. Oh man, I\’m gonna have fun the next 2 days. Heh heh heh.