Hello to all of my delicious readers of the blogosphere!  It's time for another wacky installment of Line Noise, so you can walk a mile in our shoes, if our shoes weren't for walking and consisted solely of stories passed back and forth on an IRC server!

First up is a link to bitdefender's new portal with a GTA theme.

On a note that probably wouldn't fly in the computer security industry, Japan introduces a 'fat tax' whereby businesses must perform obesity checks on their employees. they must have a waistline no larger than  33.5" for men and 35.5" for women. In a related note, here's an interesting article on a guy who lost 15lbs using Wii Fit.

It's a fairly frequent occurrence that I'm mistaken for Justin Timberlake. Not only because of my looks, but also when I break out into spontaneous dance moves. Luckily I can harness this with a device Aaron found that allows you to charge your cellphone by dancing.

Eweek rated the top 10 best and worst microsoft products. Sad or surprising to see Microsoft Bob made #2 worst. #1 worst was ActiveX. Sure it's a security nightmare and doesn't run on other platforms and kind of broke a lot of websites, but why the hate?

Websense wrote a decent article on reversing file formats with a walkthrough of reversing the embedded opentype format which is used for embedding fonts into web pages.

Pedram came across the following neat little interactive web 2.0-ish Linux kernel map for exploring source code. On the same day he also stumbled upon jsvi, a vi-clone implemented in pure JavaScript. We've already begun rolling it out as the official textarea widget in our internal web apps.

The US Army officially activates the Network Warfare Battalion. I guess it's the logical progression for the internet, as it grew from the military funded ARPAnet. Someone let me know when there's a French Foreign iLegion (of Doom).

Dancho Danchev's article on Kris Kaspersky's research is very cool. Kris has been researching remotely exploitable Intel CPU bugs. Kris will be presenting at Hack in the Box in October.

Dan Kaminsky found a DNS Bug. As per the usual, our writeup is here.

And that, is line noise for this fortnight.

Stay classy, blogosphere!