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<img alt="Nightly746" title="Nightly746" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightly746.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build:
* California has joined Texas and Minnesota in what appears to be a growing trend toward legislation [mandating open document formats][5] for public documents. A bill introduced a few days ago in the State Legislature would require all the use of open document formats like ODF by 2008.
[5]: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1668_bill_20070223_introduced.html "An act to add Section 11541.1 to the Government Code, relating to information technology."
* The publishing industry might possibly be starting to understand this wacky digital world. Random House has [unveiled][1] a new tool dubbed Insight that will let consumers search and browse through more than 5,000 of its titles on the Internet. It's be better if they just let Google have at it, but at least it's a start.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-02-27T211803Z_01_N27397690_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEDIA-DIGITAL.xml&src=rss "Publishers allow book browsing on the Web"
* Hacker Shawn Carpenter [has won][3] a $4.3 million settlement against his former employer Sandia National Laboratories. Carpenter a network security guru conducted his own probe of a security breach at the agency after being told that the agency would not investigate the case. Eventually Carpenter traced the attacks back to a Chinese cyber-espionage group and notified the Army Counterintelligence Group and later with the FBI of his findings. When Sandia officials learned that he had given information to the FBI they fired him. Before you rush to decry that decision read the linked article, Carpenter did some shady things that qualify as "cracking" against his company's network.
[3]: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011283 "Reverse hacker wins $4.3M in suit against Sandia Labs"
* Lifehacker [posted][4] an excellent review of various iTunes enhancements and scripts this afternoon, including a very nice Applescript that lets you browse Wikipedia for info on your favorite musicians.
[4]: http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-top-13-itunes-applescripts-239864.php "Hack Attack: Top 13 iTunes AppleScripts"
* Today's web zen: [Man Down][2]
[2]: http://www.uclick.com/feature/07/02/25/wpopu070225.gif "Man Down"
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinoutvanrees/405015861/" title="Flickr: Nightly construction work in Rotterdam central station">photo credit</a>
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