Some things to think about...
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- Physical fitness, Video Library of The New York Times
- Lobbying firms, SourceWatch.com
- Still no sign of land..., by Spaff, August 29, 2009
- PolitiFact.com Statements on Health (How many healthcare claims are pure B.S.?)
- Synaptic Cleft (who said science can't be PHUN!!)
- Dirty
Little Secrets of the Security Industry, Bruce Potter, DC15
- Uncommon Sense and Innovation, lecture by Dr. William Brody at the Albert A. Moss Lectureship in Imaging Sciences series, University of Washington Radiology Department, 7/9/2008
- The Untold Story of the World's Biggets Diamond Heist, by Joshua Davis, Wired Magazine: 17.04, March 12, 2009
- Personal Safety Nets, by Judy Piggot and Dr. John Gibson [How to prepare for life's financial challenges.]
- How to shake down the banks, by Matt Miller, The Daily Beast blog, March 6, 2009
- Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century, by Dmitry Orlov, June 2005
- Didgeridoo playing [25 minutes per day, 5 times a week] could improve sleep apnoea (There is even a You Tube video about it.)
- How to say in [A translator: check out the Top 100 most frequently translated words/phrases!]
- Interview with an Adware Author, by sherri, January 12th, 2009
- Red states, blue states... Its not so black and white
- Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm (How many people died in hostilities in the 20th Century?)
- Finally, a VC Firm With The Balls To Tell It Like It Is, by Peter Kafka, Silicon Alley Insider, October 15, 2008
- 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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