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Forensic scientists have reconstructed the face of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt and she looks like. . . me!

Damian Schofield of Nottingham University and Martin Evison of Sheffield University, both in the United Kingdom, reconstructed the face of this bronze-skinned beauty from a 3,400-year-old unidentified skull discovered in 1898 and forgotten for nearly 100 years. They applied their forensic expertise in examining digital X-rays of skulls, the same science used to identify unknown murder victims.

Neither scientist was given any indication of whose face they were reconstructing before they started.

Schofield and Evison generated this image by first making a 3-D computer grid of the woman's skull. They then placed a series of markers on that grid to indicate where tissue should be added. The next stage involved adding facial muscles. In the final step, a graphic designer added skin texture, eyes, lips, head, a crown and jewelry like that Nefertiti has been shown wearing.

This development will not please bigots and/or those who want to whiten the mixed-race culture of ancient Egypt. But, I don't find it surprising that Nefertiti was not an early version of Cameron Diaz at all.

Of course it can't be said with certainty the skull the bust is based on is Nefertiti's. However, the evidence is reasonably convincing.

Just call me 'Nef.'

I wouldn't want folks to think I discriminate against Windows users, despite the 'Mac' appellation. So, courtesy of Blah 3, I am passing this information on as a public service to 90 percent of computer users. Here is how to avoid the msblast.exe worm.

1. *Start Task Manager. Click the process tab. Look for a program
called msblast.exe. If you see it - kill the process. *

2. *Go to *Microsoft's Windows Update*
and install all the critacal
updates. It is extremely important that you do this. If you do not
install these updates - you will get invected!!!! *

3. *If you can't connect to Microsoft - here's part of a self fix.
Select RUN and type in regedit. Walk through the tree looking for
this key: *

*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run*

*Which will contain - "windows auto update"="msblast.exe" - DELETE
THIS KEY!*

4. *Don't wait till you're already infected to fix this. You need to
deal with this before it happens if you are not infected already.
Until you apply these patches - your computer is vulnerable to all
kinds of attacks. *

5. *Tell all your friends who are running Windows to do the same -
spread the word!*

Alternatively, you could unload that Dell on eBay and buy a shiny new Macintosh. You would then be safe from viruses more than 90 percent of the time.