Apple has officially announced the iPhone SDK, and it is amazing. In fact, the SDK gives third-party developers access to the exact same tools, APIs, and Cocoa Touch framework that Apple has been using... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 1:26 pm
By Evan Ackerman This little web app does a fairly convincing job of turning one single 2D picture into a 3D scene that you can fly around with your keyboard. Since a single 2D picture doesn’t contain... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
By Evan Ackerman This is an oldie (from late 2002), but a goodie. These fish tanks are robotic, and their movement is controlled entirely by the Siamese Fighting Fish that live inside. The fighting fish... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:44 am
Jason Fried ended his enthusiastic post on the iPhone SDK with those words (I added the but). And so it is. Very big shit. But there are a few things that I just don't understand about Apple's iPhone strategy... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:28 am
The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras. The nearly mythic creature was real after all. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:15 am
Pickens brings news that a student at Ryerson University is facing 147 counts of academic misconduct after helping to run a chemistry study group through Facebook. School officials have declined to comment, but students are claiming that it is simply a valid studying technique in the information age. Quoting: "Avenir, 18, faces an expulsion hearing Tuesday before the engineering faculty appeals committee. If he loses that appeal, he can take his case to the university's senate. The incident has sent shock waves through student ranks, says Kim Neale, 26, the student union's advocacy co-ordinator, who will represent Avenir at the hearing. 'That's the worst part; it's creating this culture of fear, where if I post a question about physics homework on my friend's wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this - and my prof sees this, am I cheating?' said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself."
It's very hard to time the market. I generally feel that if you are inclined to sell the business (instead of working for 7-10 years to build something large and capable of being a public company), then... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:01 am
PollDaddy, a company until now focused on distributing poll and survey widgets, is taking a stab at turning its website into a more formidable destination. How? Well, by doing what any company that has... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
After an agonizing final descent, the real life father of New World Notes and Massively blogger Tateru Nino has left the material world. She's written a powerful and moving tribute to him here-- if you're... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:49 am
I read that Jason Calacanis thinks Google will have 90% market share in search within the next year. I don't know if it's going to be 90%, but I do think that Google's share of the search market (at least... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:46 am
Pioneer Corp. said Friday it will stop making plasma display panels in an effort to turn around its troubled electronics business. Pioneer says it hopes to procure the panels, used in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:44 am
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A wild magpie robin in Hong Kong has tested positive for the H5N1 birdflu virus, the government said in a statement on Friday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:39 am
Many, many people have been waiting for official iPhone Exchange support, and Apple has finally responded. The company has licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft, which will make the iPhone fully compatible... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:09 am
Nokia Corp. on Friday announced a deal to sell handsets worth $2 billion to China Postel during 2008, the company's largest market. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:58 am
In an exclusive interview, Apples CEO talked with Fortune senior editor Betsy Morris in February in Kona, Hawaii, where he was vacationing with his family, about the keys to the companys success, the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:55 am
By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Mar. 7--A Johnson County grand jury refused to indict an abortion clinic in Overland Park this week and called for the state to reconsider a law that allows citizens to call for such investigations. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Stacy Forster and Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mar. 7--MADISON -- The state Senate on Thursday passed legislation to ratify the eight-state compact to protect the Great Lakes from large-scale diversions. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Mar. 7--County creates 9,000 tons of e-waste a year Kathie Bryan doesn't know what to do with her outdated electronic gadgets. "I've got two TVs downstairs... Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. Mar. 7--BLOOMINGTON -- A proposal by a Canadian company to bring a crude-oil pipeline through Illinois, including Livingston, McLean and DeWitt counties, has raised concerns with some residents and officials. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Keven Ann Willey, The Dallas Morning News Mar. 7--SAN CRISToBAL, Mexico -- Contrasts are what produce "wow" moments in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state. It's Mexican. But it's really more Mayan. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Mar. 7--FRANKFORT -- After months of arguments, an "extraordinarily difficult" decision on Central Kentucky's water supply could come by mid-April, Public Service Commission Chairman Mark David Goss said Thursday. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Frederick Seitz, the theoretical physicist who played a key role in founding the field of condensed matter physics but who may be better known for his roles as a government advisor and as the president... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Gizelle Studevent was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at prestigious La Jolla Country Day School when the harassment began. She returned from a basketball tournament to find an unsigned note in her suitcase:... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
The Web firm says it erred in posting images of Fort Sam Houston. The Pentagon cites security concerns. Google Inc. found... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
A South Korean lawyers group said Friday they are considering challenging plans for a major waterway, which environmentalists say would cause pollution and endanger wildlife, in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 7:35 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Pioneer Corp said on Friday it would cease production of plasma display panels and start buying the panels from outside suppliers. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 7:35 am
Scientists from China and across the world are to sequence the genome of the giant panda to try to stop one of the world's most endangered species from being wiped out, state media reported Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 7:27 am
Squirtle tips us to a Washington Post story about the progress and expansion of N-DEx - the National Data Exchange. Developed by Raytheon for a mere $85 million, N-DEx is hailed as a unified intelligence sharing system, which will allow agencies to share and analyze data from all levels of law enforcement. From the Post: "Three decades ago, Congress imposed limits on domestic intelligence activity after revelations that the FBI, Army, local police and others had misused their authority for years to build troves of personal dossiers and monitor political activists and other law-abiding Americans. Since those reforms, police and federal authorities have observed a wall between law enforcement information-gathering, relating to crimes and prosecutions, and more open-ended intelligence that relates to national security and counterterrorism. That wall is fast eroding following the passage of laws expanding surveillance authorities, the push for information-sharing networks, and the expectation that local and state police will play larger roles as national security sentinels."
By Tom Searls tomsearls@wvgazette.com House of Delegates members passed and sent to the Senate on Wednesday legislation that would categorize potentially hundreds of West Virginia streams in the Tier 3 - or pristine waters - group, giving them the highest clean-water protections. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
DAVIE, Fla., March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The journalism class of Plantation High School is joining the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), as well as state, federal and international partners, in a campaign to raise awareness among youth of threats to dolphins, manatees and the marine environment throughout the State. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
By C A Powers News You can use SW Tech public safety complex: www.swtc.edu/ referendum.aspx?id=2542 SW Tech campus master plan: www.swtc.edu/ WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=2462 FENNIMORE, Wis. - With strength in numbers, small towns are as safe as their volunteer base. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
By Theresa Riniker Road salt was again a topic of discussion at the East Dubuque City Council meeting Monday, March 3. The city's supply was nearly depleted two weeks ago, necessitating the application of salt only on hills and some intersections throughout the city. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85140) has announced the addition of "Airborne Picocell Networks" to their offering. The declining cost of cabin electronics has forced previously skeptical airlines to reconsider passenger connectivity services. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
By Philip Maramba I think Im living the old Charles Atlas body building ads, but in reverse. Are you tired of getting silicon kicked in your face? Well, I went from ordinary guy to Internet geek in just minutes a day. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
By Nick Harrah IF YOU GO The Greens, 10 p.m. Saturday at The Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St. Cover $5 to $8. Call 345-9893 or visit www.empty glass.com. In their sixth year as a band, Morgantown's The Greens have been busy making a name for themselves locally and regionally. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
'WineBoy' change-up Change is good. That's all the more reason to check out the latest five-minute Webcast of "WineBoy," where host John Brown recommends tasty alternatives to the same old red wines you've been sipping for, like, ever. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
bednarz brings us a NetworkWorld story about the development of a robot through an open source project. The objective of the project is to "take robotics from research into homes." Quoting: "One of its immediate goals is to build 10 robots and make them available to university researchers as a common platform that can be tinkered with and improved. Willow Garage will also supply 'an open-source code base integrated from the best open-source robotics software available,' President and CEO Steve Cousins said. In Cousins' video presentation, the first version of the robot could be seen vacuuming, picking up toys off the floor of a living room, taking dishes out of a dishwasher, and most importantly of all, using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew."
Pesco, Cory, Mark and I were in a synchronous space-time continuum yesterday at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. This doesn't happen very often! Intergalactic travel is expensive, now that spaceship nanofuel prices are up.
The next installment in the free "SF in SF" reading series in San Francisco is on March 16, where Jeffrey Ford and Tim Pratt will take the spotlight, emceed as always by Terry Bisson. These are great, collegial, intimate events, an opportunity to hear great writers say smart things about literature, science, and science fiction.
SUNDAY, MARCH 16
Lounge and cash bar open at 5:30PM
6:00 PM readings
Each author will read a selection from their work followed by Q&A from the audience, moderated by author Terry Bisson. Authors will schmooze and sign books afterwards in the lounge. Books will be available for sale
Seating is limited, so first come, first seated.
The Variety Preview Room
The Hobart Building, 1st Floor
582 Market St. @ Montgomery, by Montgomery St. MUNI/BART
Entrance to the Hobart Bldg. is between Citibank and Quiznos
WINNIPEG - Police in Manitoba have shut down what they call a sophisticated CD and DVD pirating operation that has long been a thorn in the side of the Canadian music industry. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 3:44 am
HAMILTON, Mont. Reeling from the high cost of fighting wildfires, federal land agencies have been imposing new fees and increasing existing ones at recreation sites across the West in an effort to raise... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 3:37 am
The US Defence Department has banned Google map-making teams from making detailed street-level video maps of American military bases after images of one ended up on the popular... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 3:34 am
TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 7 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (NYSE: ASX; TAIEX: 2311; "ASE" or the "Company"),... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Rep. Berman (D-CA) has removed the controversial section 104 from his PRO-IP Act. That section would have multiplied the already excessive statutory damages for infringement in the case of compilations, making the damages for infringing upon the copyrights of a single average CD rise into the millions of dollars. This change came after proponents of the amendment were unable to cite even one case where the statutory damages recovered were insufficient. But don't let the article fool you into thinking that the PRO-IP Act is no longer controversial now that this one section is gone, the act still creates copyright cops who are authorized to seize people's computers."
LOS ANGELES, March 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tom's Guide ( href="http://www.TomsGuide.com">www.TomsGuide.com ), an unbiased online resource for consumer... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 3:00 am
Hewlett-Packard Co. , the world's largest maker of personal computers and printers, is setting out to harvest more commercial products and services from the crop of ideas cultivated in its research laboratories... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 2:02 am
By COURTNEY SHERWOOD Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Clark County campus at 18110 S.E. 34th St. in east Vancouver. Hewlett-Packard Co., one of Clark County's largest employers, is looking for renters to fill empty office space at its east Vancouver campus, 18110 S.E. 34th St. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said he raised $55 million in February, dwarfing what his rival Hillary Clinton said she raised last month. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
Volkswagen will almost certainly build the Golf TDI Hybrid it brought to Geneva. It'll cost about as much as a Toyota Prius. But the odds are only 50-50 that it will come to America.
Murder defendant explains the cat-and-mouse game he played with police investigating his wife's disappearance. "I had that arrogance of innocence back then. I figured if I was innocent, it really wouldn't matter."
Riding with Robots writes "It turns out that one of the Ringed Planet's moons has rings of its own. The robotic spacecraft Cassini at Saturn has discovered that the icy moon Rhea is orbited by an extensive debris field and at least one ring, the first such system found. 'Many years ago we thought Saturn was the only planet with rings,' said one mission scientist. 'Now we may have a moon of Saturn that is a miniature version of its even more elaborately decorated parent.'"
CUPERTINO, Calif. Steven P. Jobs, Apples chief executive, is hoping to expand the iPhones appeal by luring software developers to create programs for it. John Doerr, the venture capitalist, is adding... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:37 am
After motherhood and apple pie, energy independence probably qualifies as the most popular political slogan in the land. It is, as they say, a no-brainer. Robert Bryce agrees: You have to have no brain... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:37 am
kwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly accessed phone and internet records of U.S. citizens. Director Robert Mueller testified that the abuses occurred prior to sweeping reforms enacted in 2007, and actually blamed the breaches in part on the telecommunications companies, who submitted more information than was requested. In another unsurprising development, the FBI also underreported the number of security letters - used to authorize wiretaps and to subpoena internet and telecom records - by over 4,600. The use of these letters to identify potential terrorists has, according to the government audit, increased dramatically since the implementation of the Patriot Act. Over 1,000 of these security letters were found to be improper in 2005, and similar numbers were expected for 2006 and 2007."
Techdirt's Mike Masnick is writing a series of short articles on topics around intellectual property. His latest focuses on the term itself, exploring the nomenclature people have proposed to describe matter that is neither intellectual nor property. The whole series (starting here) is well worth a read.
EDISON, N.J., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- As the information technology industry continues to evolve and new innovations are being introduced, RCG Information Technology, Inc. (http://www.rcgit.com/) has enhanced its Solution Portfolio in order to keep up with such changes. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:00 pm
CX2 Technologies, a provider of wireless data technology and software solutions, has announced the resignation of Adam Reiser as CEO and director of the company, and appointment of Michael Rand as its new president and CEO. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:00 pm
HUNDREDS of lucky secondary school pupils will receive new laptops under a grant from computer giant Dell. All 800 students in Colaiste Chiarain, Co Limerick, will get the computers after the company decided the school should be the sole recipient of their EUR18,000 grant. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:00 pm
Stony Stevenson writes "Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan. The engineers have devised a way to head off this costly infringement by giving each chip its own unique lock and key. The patent holder would hold the keys, and the chip would securely communicate with the patent holder to unlock itself. The chip could operate only after being unlocked. The Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits (Epic) technique relies on established cryptography methods, and introduces subtle changes into the chip design process without affecting performance or power consumption. With Epic protection enabled, each integrated circuit would be manufactured with a few extra switches that behave like a combination lock."
Is It Obvious writes "Bank Julius Baer has moved to withdraw suit against Wikileaks. We've discussed this story a few times, most recently when the judge lifted his injunction against WikiLeaks' registrar. The Baer story reflects an issue that will only grow worse over time: the gap between technology and the legal system's understanding of said technologies and their application to established legal principle. Given the rapid rate of technological change, is there a more practical way to interface emergent technology with our legal system while retaining civil rights over corporate rights?"
longacre writes "Yesterday we discussed Carnegie Mellon's maglev haptics controller which, when it goes on sale, will be aimed mostly at laboratory applications, and therefore out of reach for most consumers. Today, roboticist/futurist Daniel Wilson reviews that controller in-depth as part of a larger look at the burgeoning world of tactile feedback devices. Several mobile phones now on the market use haptic touch screens as well as a number of gaming devices, such as the Novint Falcon controller. According to Wilson the applications are limitless, from making it easier to manipulate robots to allowing drivers to keep their eyes on the road when changing radio stations. Quoting: 'Haptics doesn't just close the gaps in our current computer interfaces — it can open up new possibilities. Blending haptics with recent advances in the field of robotics allows doctors to train for intricate procedures virtually, with increasingly accurate sensory feedback — and the technology can bring a new dimension to remotely controlled machines, helping negotiate obstacles in distant settings.'"
Speaking at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference in San Diego, writer Quinn Norton described future societal changes that may come about as the result of mind-enhancing drugs and other body modifications -- just as the introduction of coffee helped stimulate the Enlightenment in 17th-century England.
David Pogue of the NY Times visited a tech suppport center, and they gave him a CD with recordings of their favorite funny phone calls.
Caller: Hey, can you help me? My computer has locked up, and no matter how many times I type eleven, it won’t unfreeze.
Agent: What do you mean, “type eleven?”
Caller: The message on my screen says, “Error Type 11!”
—
On one call, the caller seemed to be taking an inordinately long time to complete each instruction she was given.
Agent: Ma’am, I can’t help noticing that every time I give you an instruction, it takes a really long time before you get back to me. Is your computer that slow?
Caller: Oh, no, it’s just the stupid, stupid design of this computer. Every time I want to click something, I have to unplug the keyboard to plug in the mouse. And then every time I want to use the keyboard again, I have to unplug the mouse. Because there’s only one jack.
Agent: Ma’am, you do realize that there’s a jack on the keyboard itself? You’re supposed to plug the mouse into the keyboard, and the keyboard into the computer.
Caller: Are YOU KIDDING ME!? Oh, wait a minute—yes, I see it now! Oh, holy cow. That’s going to be so much easier!
Agent: Just out of curiosity, how long have you been using your computer that way?
This giant, mysterious two-wheeled mine-clearing tank was taken from the Nazis by the Russians at the end of World War II. As Coop notes, "We have achieved total Hell Yeah. It looks like the car Darth Vader drove to high school."
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(Thanks, Coop!)
The US Treasury Department confiscated the domain names of a British/Spanish travel agent who specializes in Hemingway tours of Cuba. Treasury claims that since Americans might have made reservations through the sites, that they were entitled to march into the domain registrar and take away a foreigner's business.
Susan Crawford, a visiting law professor at Yale and a leading authority on Internet law, said the fact that many large domain name registrars are based in the United States gives the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, control “over a great deal of speech — none of which may be actually hosted in the U.S., about the U.S. or conflicting with any U.S. rights.”
“OFAC apparently has the power to order that this speech disappear,” Professor Crawford said.
The law under which the Treasury Department is acting has an exemption, known as the Berman Amendment, which seeks to protect “information or informational materials.” Mr. Marshall’s Web sites, though ultimately commercial, would seem to qualify, and it is not clear why they appear on the list. Unlike Americans, who face significant restrictions on travel to Cuba, Europeans are free to go there, and many do. Charles S. Sims, a lawyer with Proskauer Rose in New York, said the Treasury Department might have gone too far in Mr. Marshall’s case.
LA Weekly sent a reporter (and Disney trufan) to the Doombuggies.org tenth anniversary after-hours party at the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. The event looks like just about the coolest thing evar.
We are like kids running through that graveyard on the ride by ourselves, away from the maddening crowds in a mostly deserted park in the middle of the night. It's strange, thrilling and genuinely scary to glide through the mansion under these conditions, with animatronic spooks popping up from behind gravestones and eerie talking busts, followed by all those empty DoomBuggies; decades ago, Gurr imagined them as a "chain of elephants" moving through the space.
Yet there is always something new to catch the breath, some creature crawling up the leg of a table, some creepy face peering out of the wallpaper. Asked about the process of designing the Gothic southern-plantation mansion, Walt is rumored to have said, "We'll take care of the outside, and the ghosts will take care of the inside."
Lifehacker's got a good post linking to ten great ways to get your cables under control. My favorite is this charging station built into a cardboard filing box, from Two Loose Teeth.
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As her UC Davis graduate school thesis, my friend Naomi Adiv is walking the Amtrak Capital Corridor rail line between the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, the state's capital and documenting it. She was inspired by a 5th century English tradition called "beating the bounds," where, according to Wikipedia, the community in a parish would "walk the boundaries of the parish, to share the knowledge of where they lay, and to pray for protection and blessings for the lands." Naomi studies community arts and public space, and I think her project is an exciting hybrid of psychogeography, journalism, cartography, and performance art. Her blog is a raw feed of her photos and field notes. (She's not doing the walk all in one shot.) Naomi says:
In this project, I consider how we “beat the bounds” now... I plan to walk from one end of the region to the other along the tracks, exploring how a seemingly marginal space that seems to serve only as an “in-between” can really be ameaningful place with a life of its own. How do we come to know a place, and what does it mean to know a place in a way different from how its builders intended? Another way of stating this question: how does the experience of walking change one’s notion of a space produced to exclude human participation? How do we re-think and re-purpose landscape and landscapes through embodied practice in our daily lives?
In addition to walking and photographing and blogging, I'm working with artists from across the region to put up an art show in the spring in Davis, reflecting on the space of the railroad in the places where they live and work.
Wired News reports that the "herbal viagra" spammers like to peddle contain "unnatural chemicals" that "can affect the cardiovascular system or interact with other drugs" and "are quite dangerous."
This isn't too surprising. Spammers would happily sell cyanide to kids if they could make a buck from it. The real reason I liked this story is for the atrocious and infantile puns in the comments section of the story. That said, I think Boing Boing's members can give Wired's members some stiff competition in this department.
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The TSA endangered the life of child who has a surgical feeding tube in his stomach by opening up his backup tube, contaminating it. The child pleaded with the TSA officer, who said that she had to open it or refuse to allow the child to board the plane. After an Orlando television station investigated the story, the TSA agreed to look into the incident:
James Hoyne, 14, has a feeding tube in his stomach and carries a back-up in a sealed clear plastic bag. Hoyne said two weeks ago a TSA officer insisted on opening the sterile equipment, contaminating his back-up feeding up tube which he later needed.
"I said 'Please don't open it' and she said 'I have to open it whether you like it or not. If I can't open it, I can't let you on the plane,'" Hoyne said of his conversation with the TSA screener.
Comment by Daniel Patterson Ecologist and Southwest Director, PEER.org
