Starcombing contains eighty-five newly collected pieces of David Langford's witty commentary on the SF/fantasy scene - columns, articles, reviews, essays, even a few short-short stories from the famous 'Futures' page in Nature. Compulsive reading, crammed with insights and laughs.

Medical Applications of Microcomputers deals with microcomputer applications in a wide area of clinical medicine. Recent developments are discussed in several clinical specialties including medicine, surgery, urology, anaesthesia and oncology. Topics include the storage of analysis of clinical audit data, the display of processing of data from direct physiological measurements and computers in control of therapy. The authors draw on their practical experience and knowledge of specific areas to which they have applied modern microcomputer techniques and give detailed descriptions of the means by which the problems that may be encountered may be overcome. Those wishing to implement their own computer systems will find this book a useful further source of ideas and techniques which add to those described in the earlier volume "Microcomputers in Medicine" by the same editors.

This book helps people find sensitive information on the Web.Google is one of the 5 most popular sites on the internet with more than 380 million unique users per month (Nielsen/NetRatings 8/05). But, Google's search capabilities are so powerful, they sometimes discover content that no one ever intended to be publicly available on the Web including: social security numbers, credit card numbers, trade secrets, and federally classified documents. Google Hacking for Penetration Testers Volume 2 shows the art of manipulating Google used by security professionals and system administrators to find this sensitive information and "self-police their own organizations.Readers will learn how Google Maps and Google Earth provide pinpoint military accuracy, see how bad guys can manipulate Google to create super worms, and see how they can "mash up" Google with MySpace, LinkedIn, and more for passive reconaissance.• Learn Google Searching BasicsExplore Google's Web-based Interface, build Google queries, and work with Google URLs.• Use Advanced Operators to Perform Advanced QueriesCombine advanced operators and learn about colliding operators and bad search-fu.• Learn the Ways of the Google HackerSee how to use caches for anonymity and review directory listings and traversal techniques.• Review Document Grinding and Database DiggingSee the ways to use Google to locate documents and then search within the documents to locate information. • Understand Google's Part in an Information Collection FrameworkLearn the principles of automating searches and the applications of data mining.• Locate Exploits and Finding TargetsLocate exploit code and then vulnerable targets.• See Ten Simple Security SearchesLearn a few searches that give good results just about every time and are good for a security assessment.• Track Down Web ServersLocate and profile web servers, login portals, network hardware and utilities.• See How Bad Guys Troll for DataFind ways to search for usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other juicy information.• Hack Google ServicesLearn more about the AJAX Search API, Calendar, Blogger, Blog Search, and more.