Otter Tic-Tac-Toe
Ars Technica offers a useful
article for budding digital photographers on how to
take better pictures.
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Cardboard City
The Fat Channel offers up stunning do-it-yourself models of, among other things, a nuclear fallout shelter, and a cardboard box.
Striking fear in the hearts of entire communities
Hackers who prey on unsuspecting schools (i.e. anyone who intentionally affects or impairs school computers) constitute the latest batch of non-violent offenders slated for prison time.
Jail Time in the Digital Age
Stanford law professort Lawrence Lessig
offers an article that explains in plain
english the threat of the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act, as demonstrated in the
FBI's recent arrest of Russian
programmer Dmitri Sklyarov when he came
to the United States to give a talk
about commercial data encryption issues.
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Jet-Powered Beer Cooler
Need to chill that six-pack of beer but
don't have a refrigerator handy? Build a
jet engine to do the job! If you
were in search of hard evidence of the
ingenuity (and wackiness) of New Zealanders,
look no further.
Link Shortifier
This questionably useful utiliy will take a long url and make it shorter. Hence http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004T20V/qid=996529472/sr=2-1/ref=aps_sr_pm_1_1/002-5037 becomes http://makeashorterlink.com/index.php?Y25D1270
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Reformulating the NSA
The Washington Post offers an in-depth
article on the NSA's new director and
the agency's struggles to adapt to the
post-cold-war Internet age.
OVERDUE
The Cartoon Network
presents an entertaining approach to
encouraging people to return their
library books on time. (Requires Flash
Player browser plug-in.)
10 Big Myths About Copyright
Usenet and online publishing
pioneer Brad Templeton offers an
interesting and useful look at the
practical application of copyright law.
But Will It Get You Into the Carpool Lane?
In a somewhat odd twist of new car
technology, IBM has developed
an electronic artificial passenger,
that tells jokes and engages you in
conversation, with the goal of preventing
accidents caused by drowsy drivers.
Among other measures, if the artificial
passenger decides you're dropping off
to sleep it may decide to open the
windows and spray you with icy water.
Yikes.