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Link roundup for 7/9/08

July 9th, 2008

Adobe’s PDF format now an ISO standard: AppleInsider reports on the official acceptance of Adobe’s Portable Document Format as ISO Standard number 32000. This means that ISO is officially in control of the PDF standard.

RealSnailMail: is a research/performance art project to have snails outfitted so that they can store and deliver electronic messages (snail mail). The project will be demonstrated at the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2008).

How to beat AVG’s fake traffic spew: The Register reports on the widely reported problems caused by AVG’s LinkScanner, which generates large volumes of traffic while it opportunistically validates links. AVG is expected to make changes to its anti-virus software in response to complaints.

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