Web Week

Key to shifting the protection: Remember the bright spark who found that a cheap pen was all that was needed to dismantle copy protection introduced to thwart CD burning? The net's been laughing at another student's discovery that using the shift key breaks label BMG's new protection. You can read his thesis here. The software company which developed the technology threatened to sue the student but has since withdrawn the threat.

Home business buzz: This is National Home Business Week. Many self-employed people working from home face challenges of a sense of isolation and invisibility followed by a lack of credibility for their business, according to local site HomeBizBuzz which offers great advice.

Not quite the Nobels: Just in are the winners of this year's "Ig Nobel" awards - intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Among this year's gems is "an analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces".

Absolutely positive site: Wellington's official tourist site describes the capital as a "picture perfect city". Cynical Jafas may say it is only so on days when you can actually see through the rain - but then who are rain-sodden Aucklanders to talk?

The law in simple terms: Local site HowToLaw.co.nz has hundreds of legal articles written in plain language and for no legal fees. You can buy and download sample documents on the topics.