The American Museum of the Moving Image has a cool site with all of the Presidential television ads (I think in history). The ads begin with the 1952 Presidential campaign and continue through to today. The site is constantly being updated as the new ads come out this year. The best part about the site is the ads are viewable in their original content. For example some of the ads were changed after opposing campaigns complained. An internet ad earlier this year put out by the Bush campaign showed an imaged of Howard Dean & Al Gore with images of Hitler. Check out the original ads here.

The US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued a warning against using the Microsoft browser Internet Explorer. US-CERT recommends using an alternate browser do to the all the vulnerabilities in IE.

My take: If it weren’t for Internet Explorer Microsoft Windows might be secure platform. If you look at all the updates (critical & recommended) Microsoft puts out the vast majority are for IE. The kicker here is that IE doesn’t even have a a pop-up blocker. It’s 2004 and they have no pop-up blocker. There are no other major browsers that don’t have pop-up blockers. I would venture to say the average user spends more time browsing the internet than any other task while on a computer. If IE still has 90% of the market then most the majority of internet users are in danger most of the time they’re on their computers. I guess their not in danger but their data, privacy and equipment is.

Alternate Browsers:

Mozilla FireFox
Netscape Navigator 7.1
Opera 7.5
Safari 1.2

If anybody wants a gmail account I have a couple invites that I’m willing to part with. I’ve been using the system for about a week and today I got 6 invites. I guess the more you use it the more invites you get. Send me an e-mail if you want one.