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29/03/2013

Egypt coastguard arrests 3 divers attempting to cut Internet

We know “The Cloud” is still, despite the nice ads and icons, a series of pipes, tubes, cables and ugly squat buildings filled with servers.

Andrew Blum’s (Wired) book “Tubes - A Journey To The Center Of The Internet” is a pretty good look at how this whole thing works.

Blum’s TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_blum_what_is_the_internet_really.html

Sometimes those tubes get cut. In this Egyptian case, sabotaged!

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/egypt-arrest-submarine-cable.html

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27/03/2013

“ Next comes a “high frequency overwrite” replacing the last few letters of each word with the most common endings found in passwords (-er, -y, -123, -man, -dog…). High frequency prepends are next (most common first character: “1”) and then high frequency overwrites at the start of words. Each wordlist item is “leetified” by replacing “o” with “0” and “i” with “!” and “e” with “3.” Words are “undoubled,” words have their most common suffixes removed, the letters in each word are rotated… „

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-password-cracker/

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Minuum - Re-thinking touchscreen keyboards (again)

Minuum looks interesting. I was a big fan of Swype, wondered why it wasn’t more widely adopted beyond Android.

Big-QWERTY is a tough lobby to crack, and those Dvorak nerds will attest. But good to see people try.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minuum-keyboard-project

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26/03/2013

Signal Snowboards 3D prints (SLS - rad) a bunch of interlocking parts, smoothes some resin over, and has themselves a snowboard.

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16/03/2013

Google Reader change.org petition is probably going to be the fastest growing of all time

I love Google Reader as much as the next 100,000 guys. I don’t want it to be sunsetted. But really, internet, there are priorities.

Whitehouse.gov’s We The People petitioning system has just removed a petition asking Obama to intervene. Honestly, people, that function is important and about critical issues of state, like Gun Control, building Death Stars and R.Kelly’s Ignition (remix).

There’s currently a change.org petition to revert Google’s decision with over 100k signatures in just 24 hours, gaining around 4200 signatures an hour: https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running

The change.org petition for justice re: Trayvon Martin who was murdered in the USA is currently the fastest growing petition of all time - it got 2.3 million signatures and it worked.

Whilst the Google Reader petition might not eclipse that, let’s get a little better at organising around justice, peace and other more consequential stuff, yeah?

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05/02/2013

Sweet projection mapping by Flat-e on Jamie Lidell’s latest (remix-fodder) tune.

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04/12/2012

Artist Evan Roth fingerprinted the thumb-swipe manoeuvres required to ace Angry Birds, using ink and tracing paper over his device screen.

The result is a catalogue of messy, smudgy, organic and decidedly undigital remnants of a screen-focused lifestyle.

http://www.evan-roth.com/work/angry-birds-all-levels/

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30/10/2012

Oakley gets into the ring with Recon Instruments’ HUD goggles. Almost twice what I paid for my Zeal Z3s with same tech, but exciting that these will mainstream pretty quickly now.

re: $$$ - Oakley’s coming in at over USD$600, similar to Zeal Z3s at around $USD500.

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16/09/2012

» Salt & Vinegar Chips: Way more than you ever wanted to know

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11/09/2012

» History of Glass

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24/07/2012

London 2012 Games - Australian Olympic Squad Uniform.

Sick Volleys.

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12/07/2012

» Re-imagining the egg carton

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07/07/2012

So rad. Around 0:38 he looks like Eddie Murphy doing an impression of George Benson.

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Futurecop! does John Hughes-era pop hits. You could do worse.

Track Listing
01 - Borderline - Madonna
02 - Word Up - Cameo
03 - Sussudio - Phil Collins
04 - (We Want) The Same Thing - Belinda Carlisle
05 - The Pleasure Principle - Janet Jackson
06 - We Dont Have to Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
07 - Unknown - Futurecop!
08 - Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen
09 - The Long Race - Bruce Hornsby
10- St Elmos Fire - John Parr
11 - No Easy Way Out - Robert Tepper
12 - (Dont You) Forget About Me - Simple Minds
13 - Transformers - Futurecop!
14 - (Transformers) In Time - Robbie Robb

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06/07/2012

» "99 Problems" analysed by a legal professor (PDF)

JAY-Z’S 99 PROBLEMS, VERSE 2: A CLOSE READING WITH FOURTH AMENDMENT GUIDANCE FOR COPS AND PERPS

ABSTRACT

This is a line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. It’s intended as a resource for law students and teachers, and for anyone who’s interested in what pop culture gets right about criminal justice, and what it gets wrong.

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