Web Week

Wrong ingredients make tasteless hoax: Hottest email of the week was a 121-page Word document purporting to be a pirated copy of the new book by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

It flew around the net faster than it takes to make a cup of tea.

The email claims it was originally sent by a Penguin employee, who tried to send it to a friend but accidentally sent it to half the world.

It was a hoax, the "book" being a collection of recipes from Oliver's other books. Penguin denies it is a marketing gimmick and says it wants to track the culprit.

Maori language week: This is Maori Language Week, aimed at encouraging us "to have a greater sense of pride in the Maori language".

We're not sure why the Arabia Times has a Maori language lesson but closer to home go to the resources at Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Mâori and the excellent Maori.org.nz.

See film's future: Imagine you're an aspiring film-maker picked to shoot a short movie, all expenses paid, and that your film will compete against nine others for a million-dollar Hollywood movie deal.

Chrysler has run such a contest in New York - with the condition that the 10 had to cast, shoot, and edit in just 10 days.

At the Chrysler site you can watch the resulting films and cast your vote. You need the free Quicktime software.

Festival fun: Now the film festival is over, the countdown begins to the long-awaited Auckland Festival AK03.

The smart-looking official site has the full events programme and you can sign up for a newsletter (but unlike many sites, you have to give your full name, not just an email address, and you have to agree to a scary-looking privacy statement).

Lessons from 9/11: The US official inquiry into the intelligence services' failure to detect the events of 9/11 resulted in an 858- page report that found the US intelligence community "failed to fully capitalise" on information that might have allowed agents to unravel the hijack plot.

Windows cracked: Swiss researchers have released a paper claiming it can take an average time of only 13.6 seconds to crack a Windows password.

The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a person.

If you want to risk testing passwords go try the Advanced Instant NT Password Cracker.

Penguin's Jamie Oliver site

Jamie Oliver's official site

Arabia Times

Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Mâori

Maori.org.nz

The Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival

Quicktime

Auckland Festival 03

Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after Sept 11
Paper on cracking passwords

Advanced Instant NT Password Cracker