Movie Plot Terrorist Threat #6666: Twitter!
The terrorists were all over World of Warcraft, now they’re all over Twitter, according to this Wired article: Scenario 1: Terrorist operative “A” uses Twitter with… a cell phone camera/video function to send back messages, and to receive messages, from the rest of his [group]… Other members of his [group] receive near real time updates [...]
Sarah Palin, the Accessorizer
Apart from her being rather incompetent (“cramming a lot of information”, as if, she just doesn’t find her way around the notes others have prepared for her), Sarah Palin apparently really likes fashion. And hairdressers. And makeup. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
How the LHC Actually Works
Neotorama was featuring this really interesting explanation of how the Large Hadron Collider actually works yesterday evening: Linear acceleration, circular boosting in 4 packets with pulses, further acceleration in the proton synchotron (a larger ring) and gain of mass, further energy addition in the super proton synchotron, and finally the LHC itself with 2 rings [...]
Big Bang! Or is it?
In case you haven’t noticed, the world hasn’t ended yet. Which is good I guess, particularly since it’s despite the LHC (which stands for Large Hadron Collider, apparently) having been switched on this morning at CERN. Everybody’s celebrating, even Google, with one of their famous doodles (uhm … does “please do not use them elsewhere” [...]
Google Chrome Roundup
Here goes the second round of my Google Chrome review, mainly consisting of links to news and discussions. Chrome Phone Home Maybe you heard (I hear it was even on TV?) that Chrome loves E.T. and likes to phone home. Yes, it does, but not that much more so than other browsers: Google’s Matt Cutts [...]
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