John Baez Quantum Gravity seminar notes
Susie Bright Haggard backsliding betting pool
NYT on incompetent executions
Squids blind their prey with light
Naps is nice
Under-ice watersheds in the Antarctic
No, really, radiation is bad for you
Fluidic computation for amateurs
Drive-by router DNS hacking
Andy Griffith on warrantless eavesdropping
BBC on “Global Dimming” — They don’t do nearly enough to talk about the obvious location-related effects, but still interesting.
Vehicle surveillance under the guise of road pricing. Includes ref to the remarkably-titled british policepaper, Denying Criminals the Use of the Roads.
ISP data retention bill. Ugh. Also mentions Sanders and Leahy inadequate proposal for making companies pay if they don’t safeguard information.
Stun gun on babies: threat or menace?
Spells for the professor
Taping babies’ mouths (the more things change, the more they stay the same)
Silicon-based bioactive materials
iBridge tech transfer (see last but one)
Excerpt from Duncan Foley’s Adam’s Fallacy
Radio-controlled forklift
Millimeter-scale gas turbine
Scheier’s psychology of security — one thing he doesn’t seem to talk about is biases in thinking about different kinds of costs (e.g. the analogy between security lines and commuting time)
Acme catalog
