Some things to think about...

• One Being the Right Size
• Seeds of Compassion
• GenesisCovenant.org - Save the planet, whatever your faith
• Awareness test (Share the road with bicyclists.)
• Free! Why $0.00 is the Future of Business, by Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine 16.03, February 25, 2008
• Airport Security ftw?, uploaded to Flickr by sirbrett84 on July 8, 2007
• Flying Spaghetti Monster apparition in flare salvo smoke, posted on Boingboing by Mark Frauenfelder, August 16, 2006
• Overcoming Bias: The Affect Heuristic, November 27, 2007
• One Million Ways to Die, by Wired Magazine, 9/11/2006 (Think Terrorism is your biggest threat? Turn off the fear and think again!
• The 25 most baffling toys from around the world
• The Upside-Down-Ternet (or "go ahead, steal my WiFi")
• Shift Happens
• Report an Earthquake
• The Gettysburg Address (in PowerPoint)
• Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo
• Brian Eno's "77 Million Paintings (cool "visual music")
• George Lakoff, of the Rockridge Institute (and author of "Don't Think of An Elephant.")
• Military Matters: Brave new war, by William S. Lind, UPI, May 11, 2007 (Review of John Robb's new book, "Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization.)
• Serious flaw in Google Desktop Prompts Patch, by Brian Krebs, Washington Post, February 21, 2007 (Watch the video! ...and people always thought I was paranoid when I didn't use added features -- including JavaScript -- in browsers, and why I never even wanted to installed Google Desktop. A colleague at the UW distributes this document explaining how to safely use the Internet Explorer browser.)
• The web enables self-publishing.
• Spies, Lies & KPMG: An inside look at how the accounting giant was infiltrated by private intelligence firm Diligence, Business Week Online, February 26, 2007
• SEC Files Emergency Action Against Foreign Traders to Stop an Online Account Intrusion Scheme: Defendants Hijacked Innocent Online Brokerage Accounts to Conduct High-Tech "Pump and Dump" Scheme, Securities and Exchange Commission, December 19, 2006
• Perspective: Learning the lessons of 9/11 for real -- CNET News.com's Charles Cooper writes that the government's diffident approach to cybersecurity is a ticking time bomb. -- by Charles Cooper, September 1, 2006
• Privacy Rights Clearing House [Pay attention to the Chronology of Data Breaches Reported Since the ChoicePoint Incident.]
• So you think you can trust that others (including government) will keep your information private? Think again...
  • Florida county posts residents' sensitive data on public Web site, by Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld, April 10, 2006
  • A sample of stolen personal identifying information, showing over 2.4 million records stolen from universities in just over a year
    • Some colleges falling short in computer security, by Tom Zeller Jr., The New York Times, April 4, 2005 (3 schools, 180,000 records)
    • FBI investigating high-tech attack by hacker on UNLV server, KRNV TV, Reno, NV, March 22, 2005 (5,000 records)
    • Boston College reveals alumni data breach, By Matt Hines, CNET News.com, March 17, 2005 (100,000 records)
    • BC warns its alumni of possible ID theft after computer is hacked, by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, March 17, 2005 (100,000 records)
    • Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university, by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, January 10, 2005 (over 35,000 records)
    • Data thieves strike Georgia Tech, by Robert Lemos, CNET News.com, March 31, 2003 (57,000 records)
    • Online attack puts 1.4 million records at risk, by Robert Lemos, CNET News.com, October 20, 2004 (1.4 million records)
    • UCLA laptop theft exposes ID info, by David Becker, CNET News.com, June 10, 2004 (145,000 records)
    • UC San Diego Notifies Campus Community and Others of Computer Systems Security Breach, by Dolores Davies, USCD, May 6, 2004 (380,000 records)
    • Hackers breach university server: Personal student information may have been compromised, CNN.com, January 30, 2004 (31,000 records)
    • Data thieves nab 55,000 student records, by Robert Lemos, CNET News.com, March 6, 2003 (55,200 records)
• The Debacle of Corporate Bankrupcy, by Barry Adler and Lawrence Weiss
• The Beloit College "Mindset List" provided to faculty to help them understand the minds of incoming freshmen
• Intel VT vs. AMD Pacifica: The two chipmakers are building virtualization support right into the CPU. Will it virtualize Microsoft's monopoly?, by Andy Dornan, November 01, 2005
• GAO Reports Testimonies Related to Disaster Preparedness, Response and Reconstruction (Post-Katrina, what the government knew and how long it knew it. You'll have to ask executives why they didn't do anything about it.)
• FIPR-Bulletin: G8 Interior Ministers call for rollback of data protection laws & blanket traffic data retention, Foundation for Information Policy Research bulletin, May 16, 2002
• Why Hackers Escape: Organized, well financed criminals stay a step ahead of the law, by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com, May 14, 2002
• In the year 2014, the New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?
• Should you commit a technologically impared relative to an Assisted Computing Facility?
• How to Stop Telemarketers
• Snopes Urban Legends Reference Pages
• BiddingForTravel.com
• Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy's Secrecy and Security News articles
• An illegal prime number? (VERY clever!)
• Privacy compromised (everything about you that others can know...)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Caffeine
• Microsoft: A Proven Danger to National Security (or, "MICROSOFT: Findings of Reality), 15 May 2000, by Rick Forno (Adobe PDF file)
• Tiny keyboard snooping device tracks passwords, by Will Knight, ZDNet/UK, March 27, 2000
• Cyberterrorism hype, Johan J Ingles-le Nobel, Jane's Intelligence Review
• You lose! -- Cars and toasters are expected to work. But bad software is a norm, and the industry wants to keep it that way (Boston Globe 06/20/99)
• Vipers In the Sandbox -- Used to Be, the Internet Was a Safe Place to Play
• Remembering the Net crash of '88 - Cornell student KO'd fledgling Internet with replicating 'worm' (MSNBC)
• Reverse Telephone Lookup
• Designing the Future, by Richard Thieme, Forbes Digital article
• Imaginary Gardens and Islands in the Clickstream
• How stupid is this?
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    Source: Time Magazine Pictures of the Year 2007
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    Source: Naval Safety Center Picture of the Week section
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    Source: Naval Safety Center Picture of the Week section
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    Source: Naval Safety Center Picture of the Week section
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