Links for the week of 25 October 2008:
- Smithsonian Libraries : Digital Library - Webcasts, lectures
- Journal of Biological Engineering | Full text | Engineering BioBrick vectors from BioBrick parts - We define a biological part to be a natural nucleic acid sequence that encodes a definable biological function, and a standard biological part to be a biological part that has been refined in order to conform to one or more defined technical standards.
- Strange Culture, A new film by Lynn Hershman Leeson - The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz�s 911 call deemed Kurtz�s art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected "bioterrorist" as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, his cat, and even his wife�s body.
- YouTube - Time-Lapse: Zebrafish Embryos Developing - Time-Lapse: Zebrafish Embryos Developing, first 24 hrs
- Microsoft vs. Google: The New Space Race? - MSFT and Google investing in large telescopes and open source astronomy
- Spy Pigeons Circle the World | Danger Room from Wired.com -
- Survival Communities - State Maps and Information for
Nuclear Survival
(with Intentional Communities list) - Geophysicist Shares a Song of Earth’s Polarity : NPR - Geophysicist Shares a Song of Earth's Polarity
- Team records ‘music’ from stars - Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. A team writing in Science journal says the sounds have enabled them to get information about processes deep within stars for the first time.
- YouTube - Face Shift — Arthur Elsenaar, Remko Scha — 2005 -
- Electric Stimulus – today and tomorrow - Daito Manabe stimulates his facial muscles with small electric pulses, synced to music. The result is amazing, he now has to figure out how the hide the cables, then it would be an excellent music video.
- BCMA Medical Museum : Collections -
- Scientists make cat that glows in the dark - Telegraph - transgenic cat: The gene, which was added to Mr. Green Genes' DNA when he was created, has no effect on his health. "Created"…
- An Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text Editor -
- ANSI Launches Guide to Help Calculate Cyber Security Risk - Desktop Security News Analysis - Dark Reading - In a nutshell, the guide advocates that organizations calculate cyber security risks and costs by asking questions of every organizational discipline that might be affected: legal, compliance, business operations, IT, external communications, crisis management, and risk management/insurance. The idea is to involve everyone who might be affected by a security breach and collect data on the potential risks and costs.
- Second International conference on image science of the Department for Image Science, Danube-University Krems - Never before the world of images has changed so fast and the way images are produced transformed so drastically like in the latest presence: Second Life, Micromovies, Flickr, Virtual Reality, You Tube, Visual Music, Scientific Visualisation, Google Earth etc. are keywords standing for a multitude of new possibilities for individual producing, projecting and distributing of visual material.
- Jeremy Mayer -Typewriter Sculpture, Illustration, Studio - Mayer has created a series of sculptures that capture the mysteriously delicate, yet sturdy, inner structures of living things using old typewriters.
- The United States Air Force Art Collection - The United States Air Force Art Collection documents the story of the Air Force through the universal language of art. The actions and deeds of Air Force men and women are recorded in paintings by eminent American artists in a way words alone could never tell. These paintings are both historical and educational and expose the military and the public to the role and diverse capabilities of the United States Air Force.
- Atlas of Cyberspace - The Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, is the first comprehensive book to explore the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure.
- Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive - truly bizarre set of posters, from the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive. Using the words of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and George W. Bush, they remind our spies not to spill secrets — or switch to the other side. Recruiters from Beijing to Moscow to Tehran are, no doubt, cursing the poster-makers' cleverness, and their boundless Illustrator skill. Here are some samples:
- Hackermedia - is on the air! - hacking and security podcasts
- Pollster.com - 2008 Election Polls, Trends, Charts and Analysis -
- IEEE Spectrum: The Hunt for the Kill Switch - Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out
- YouTube - Miriam Makeba-Pata Pata(TV Record,S.Paulo,Brazil,1968) -
- Online Divorcee Jailed After Killing Virtual Hubby - NYTimes.com -
- Podcasts from the University of Oxford -
- Vintagetextile.com high style vintage clothing - Exquisite vintage clothing 1750-1980: Early Costume; 19th-20th century Couture; wearable designer fashion for the discriminating collector. Since 1998 exclusively on the internet, Vintage Textile has offered a wide selection of the best high-style clothing in all the major categories: Early, Victorian, Edwardian, 1920s, 1930s-1950s, 20th century Designer, Shawls/Textiles. We are proud to count major collectors and museums worldwide among our valued customers.
- YouTube - Exploding Whale -
- YouTube - Björk talking about her TV -
- YouTube - bjork talking about her TV -
- Sublime Frequencies produces music from Java Bali Sumatra Burma Morocco Thailand India Mali Syria Laos Cambodia and Nepal -
- The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine -
- LASEC - The Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) was created at EPFL in 2000. It is part of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (I&C). The main activities of LASEC are research and education on the security of communication and information systems, cryptography, and applications.
- Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired Keyboard - Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini - Computer keyboards are often used to transmit sensitive information such as username/password (e.g. to log into computers, to do e-banking money transfer, etc.). A vulnerability on these devices will definitely kill the security of any computer or ATM.
Wired keyboards emit electromagnetic waves, because they contain eletronic components. These eletromagnetic radiation could reveal sensitive information such as keystrokes. Although Kuhn already tagged keyboards as risky, we did not find any experiment or evidence proving or refuting the practical feasibility to remotely eavesdrop keystrokes, especially on modern keyboards.
- Welcome to Virtual Vigilance.org - Operation Virtual Vigilance is concerned with securing America's borders. Cameras located along the border are operated by American citizens over the Internet. Suspicious activity is reported to the Border Patrol.
VirtualVigilance.org is hosted by American Border Patrol (a non-profit 501c3 corporation).
For background information, please click on "background."
The camera system is currently in operation and being viewed by a select core group of volunteers.
If you sign up as a "Virtual Volunteer" and you meet certain criteria, you will be contacted for training.
- DVN - Homepage - Access the world's largest collection of social science research data here by searching across or browsing through one of the virtual data archives (called "dataverses") listed below.
- Robert Marion LaFollette (1855-1925), speech in Senate, 1908 March 17 - [While the public's mind and the Hearst and the Pulitzer papers (and other papers) were preoccupied with the sex-life and murder of Stanford White, and the night of the "velvet swing"; while senators and congressmen interrupted their business to read the details of the "trial of the century" in the evening papers, there was some trouble in America]
Congressional Record — Senate
page 3434
1908 March 17
Senate bill 3023
AMENDMENT OF NATIONAL BANKING LAWS. - 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen | Smashing Magazine -
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