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Tech: Yahoo! News - iPod Alternatives Shaking Up Market: “In August, the companies plan to start selling the $299 MP3Run PSA260 player, which measures the duration and pace of your workout. The disc-shaped MP3Run comes with a separate dongle device that tracks the speed and distance of your run and sends the information wirelessly to the player. Runners, who clip the dongle to their sneakers, can receive audio alerts. ‘You have your own coach with you in the product,’ said Levitan, who also pointed out other runner-centric features like a flashing strobe and the ability to operate it without having to look at it…

Samsung began selling the $230 YP-60 player, no larger than two packs of chewing gum, that also comes with a heart monitor and a calorie counter. Like the upcoming Nike player, Samsung’s lets users upload workout data onto a home computer as a way to keep closer tabs on fitness progress.”

World: Yahoo! News - Nuclear Industry Still Haunted by Chernobyl - U.N.: “The nuclear industry is still struggling to overcome the damage done to its reputation by Chernobyl, even though nuclear power is an ‘environmentally superior’ energy source, the U.N. atomic agency said Sunday. ‘Despite the array of measures that have been put in place since Chernobyl to offset the possibility of a severe accident, these risks can never be brought to zero and they continue to weigh heavily on public perceptions,’ International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said. ”

Movies: A fanfilm mash of Star Wars and Office Space. Delightful film.

Tech: Virus Designed to Steal Windows Users’ Data (TechNews.com): There are more than a few Microsofties fuming over this announcement. However, Mozilla and Firefox do work well. I’m currently using Firefox as my web browser, although WebCT performs better in IE. Firefox also supports many free extensions that are too handy to ignore, like access to BugMeNot. Opera is quirky and displays ads in the free version. Netscape installs AOL helpers applications, and should be avoided by non-AOL users. “CERT recommends that Explorer users consider other browsers that are not affected by the attack, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. Mac, Linux and other non-Windows operating systems are immune from this attack. For people who continue to use the Internet Explorer, CERT and Microsoft recommend setting the browser’s security settings to ‘high,’ but that can impair some browsing functions.”

Comics: MSNBC - World On A String: The truth is out. “This is a movie in which Spider-Man finds himself having an awkward elevator moment with a stranger who tells him, ‘Cool Spidey outfit … Looks uncomfortable.’ To which he says: ‘Gets kinda itchy - and it rides up in the crotch a little bit, too.’”