Web Week

What do you know about today? The Ministry of Culture and History has compiled a backgrounder, gallery and quiz related to Waitangi Day, at www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/treaty/index.htm

Primal scream: Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Deanhas been busy this week trying to secure more votes while the internet has gone crazy remixing his now-famous Iowa scream speech. Rap, techno and other mixes are at home.comcast.net/~cozdemir226

Stars in your eyes: A University of Brasilia lecturer has started an online petition to keep the US space telescope Hubble going. Nasa decided to cancel a shuttle to service the telescope as part of the space agency's new concentration on sending people to the moon and Mars.

War on cyber-terrorism: The US Department of Homeland Security has launched "America's first co-ordinated national cyber security system providing cybersecurity bulletins "identifying, analysing, and prioritising emerging vulnerabilities and threats".

Copy cats: Microsoft, increasingly obsessed about beating the Google search engine, has introduced a test version of a tool bar you can place on your browser which looks like the Google and Yahoo toolbars.