This will take a few years before anything is actually available online, but what an ambitious undertaking by the Israel Antiquities Authority: They plan to digitally photograph the entirety of the Dead Sea Scrolls and display them on the Internet.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are at least 2000 years old. They were likely written around the time of Christ and were hidden in caves around the edge of the Dead Sea, in the area of the Qumran settlement. The final scrolls were likely composed sometime after Christ’s crucifixion, most probably around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, which would put them around 72 AD. Most scholars attribute them to a sect of Judaism called the Essenes, an ascetic sect that lived in the Dead Sea area about that time.

They offer a fascinating account of early Christian life, as well as Jewish life and ritual, at that time. They were preserved in the caves until 1947, with continuing discoveries until about 1979.

CNet has some details about the project here

ZD Net had this info on one if its blogs…74% of all email is now spam. Wow – there is lots of goo out there.

Here at Terrapin Networks, our email domain – terrapinIT.com – shows incoming email at about 93% spam. And we’re not unusual – we have customers who show spam at more than 98% of their incoming email. Makes some kind of spam filter pretty darn important.

I have copied the story below, or go here for the link. It is on Alex Moskalyuk’s “IT Facts” blog.

Alex Moskalyuk

74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam

In Q2 2008, 74% of all mail received was spam. In Q2 2008, Turkey became the country with most zombie computers (11% of the global total), followed by Brazil (8.4%) and Russia (7.4%). The USA, which in the Q1 2008 accounted for 5% of all zombies, is now in ninth place with just 4.3% of the total. Google Adwords has been at the center of one of the most notable attacks over the last quarter, PandaLabs says. This Google service had been used previously to launch phishing attacks and the trend continues. This type of attack uses social engineering to trick users into revealing confidential details (bank account numbers, passwords, etc.).