If yesterday’s cushy Fortune article on Hulu in Fortune is any indication, Internet TV site Hulu is getting ready to leave private beta and launch to the public. Press like this doesn’t just... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:37 pm
mr sanjeev notes that Computerworld is running a story about Cyber Storm II, set to run from March 11th until the 14th. The exercise will test the security of the US, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada. The organizers' goals are to test preparedness and responsiveness in relation to real-time threats. The previous Cyber Storm test identified "eight specific areas in need of improvement." We recently discussed the details of the tests themselves. From Computerworld: "Security experts said the first Cyber Storm event last year improved participants' understanding of who to call in the event of an attack, but did not identify specific vulnerabilities in the nation's computer systems. 'What they're trying to do is highlight the inefficiencies in the process,' according to Marcus Sachs, deputy director with research group SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. 'They're not really looking for technical solutions.'"
The countdown began Saturday for NASA's next shuttle launch, an unusually long space station mission by Endeavour. The shuttle's seven astronauts arrived early in the morning, delayed ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:12 pm
A sixth-century copper factory, medieval kitchens still stocked with pots and pans, and remains of Renaissance palaces are among the finds unveiled Friday by archaeologists digging up Rome in preparation for a new subway line.Archaeologists have been probing the depths of the Eternal City at 38 digs, many of which are near famous monuments or on key thoroughfares.Over the last nine months, remains - including Roman taverns and 16th-century palace foundations - have turned up at the central Piazza Venezia and near the ancient Forum where works are paving the way for one of the 30 stations of Rome's third subway line."The medieval and Renaissance finds that were brought to light in Piazza Venezia are extremely important for their rarity," said archaeologist Mirella Serlorenzi, who is working on the site.Serlorenzi said that among the most significant discoveries in a ninth-century kitchen were three pots that were used to heat sauce. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
The countdown has begun for Nasa's next shuttle launch, an unusually long space station mission by Endeavour. The shuttle's seven astronauts have finally arrived,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:44 pm
This is wild and though only remotely related to cell phones, it is nonetheless. Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:10 pm
By Larry Altman A former academic standout at West High School in Torrance was free on bail Friday as federal agents continued to investigate why he had explosives in his dorm room at the University of California, Davis. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Joseph Turner, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Mar. 8--thenewstribune.com Posted online at 12:20 p.m. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
By Scott Fontaine, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Mar. 8--HOODSPORT, Mason County -- The black button on the control panel may have had a larger effect than raising the level of the North Fork of the Skokomish River or providing more spawning ground for salmon. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
FrostPaw writes "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting company NRK involving the release of the series 'Nordkalotten 365' (a wildlife program) in a DRM free format using BitTorrent. One of the broadcasters has posted the approximate figures for the overall distribution costs, and discussed his reasons for doing so. Their estimated cost for using Amazon S3 to offer the files through HTTP/FTP/etc. come to approximately 41,000 NOK (about $8,000 US). However, when using the Amazon servers as the originating seed and utilizing BitTorrent, their total cost for distribution of the entire project, thanks to generous seeds, would amount to approximately 1,700 NOK. The post with the original figures is available only in Norwegian.
Designer Magnus Kerslow entered the Stockholm Design Week 2008: Greenhouse with this practical cupboard hiding chargers and cable spaghetti. [via Core77] Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:59 am
The NWN book tour has moved from San Diego to the great city of Austin, where I'll be at legendary geek mecca South by Southwest Interactive, reading and signing my book today at 4:00pm, on the Adobe Day... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:18 am
The NWN book tour has moved from San Diego to the great city of Austin, where I'll be at legendary geek mecca South by Southwest Interactive, reading and signing my book today at 4:00pm. Hope to see some... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:13 am
By Joe Stumpe, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Mar. 8--Unlike some areas of the country, there are no waiting lists for most elderly food assistance services here. But higher food and fuel costs are putting the pinch on nonprofits that feed the elderly. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Tonia Moxley tonia.moxley@roanoke.com 381-1643 Twenty-one landowners affiliated with a local anti-Wal-Mart group will ask the Virginia Supreme Court to stop construction of a big- box store in Blacksburg. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Sandy Bauers, The Philadelphia Inquirer Mar. 8--After last month's veto of an open-ended ban on harvesting horseshoe crabs -- a move biologists say is crucial to a migratory shorebird's survival -- the New Jersey Marine Fisheries Council this week endorsed a one-year moratorium. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Stephen Wall CEDAR GLEN - Volunteers are needed to replant trees in areas devastated by recent wildfires and the bark-beetle infestation. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Kenyon, Henry S New disaster management capability allows organizations to quickly access, deploy equipment to restore communications in stricken areas. Confusion is common in disaster relief operations. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Phyllis Coulter, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. Mar. 8--NORMAL -- A Heartland Community College student is one of six students in Illinois who will be honored Wednesday at the Capitol in Springfield, and his skills also will be featured at an upcoming local event. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Lawlor, Maryann New media and information-sharing capabilities pose both technical and business process challenges. This is the first in a series of five stories on Web 2.0 capabilities and their effects. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Shaffer, Julie You've likely seen a diagram describing how a Web-based application works. In them, the Internet is always depicted as a cloud, often shown as a comic-like thought balloon. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Mike Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Mar. 8--WAUKESHA -- A Wauwatosa man who used the Internet to try to lure a boy to have sex was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. David W. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Shea, Sam Have you ever seen a Rubin vase? A "Rubin vase" isn't actually a vase; it's an optical illusion. Perhaps you've seen it; it's an image that can be interpreted either as a vase or as two faces in profile. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous Couples are more likely to call it quits between Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day than during any other time of year. found a poll by Yahoo Personals. A love litmus test: Don't want to take him to holiday events? Could be time to cut bait. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Mar. 8--Change has been part of the climate at First Baptist Church in downtown Wichita for the past several years, and change has driven the church in two different directions. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous One-Terabyte Hard Drive Companies and government organizations need reliable storage to manage increasing amounts of business and operationally generated data. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
The suit by a former executive of the group's L.A. affiliate alleges that state and federal agencies overpaid at least $180 million for birth control pills. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Byron Morgan, a documentary filmmaker whose work for NASA in the 1950s and '60s provided enduring images of the early days of the manned space program, has died. He was 87. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
The natural wonder is at least 17 million years old, about three times older than previously believed, a University of New Mexico team finds. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Flat lesions are hard to detect but are fairly prevalent and much more prone to become malignant, researchers find. Routine screenings generally look for protruding polyps. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 8:00 am
Ran across this Money:Tech 2008 photo tonight of my friend Jim (Cramer) and I working out a few things on-stage. [via Joseph] Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:55 am
Driven in part by a lack of knowledge over the long-term health effects of mobile phone use, parent groups in Europe have called for a ban on marketing to children. The New York Times reports. "..... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
Britain's breaking new ground in the slide into a total surveillance state: as of the end of this month, domestic passengers at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 will be fingerprinted and photographed twice, to "ensure the passenger boarding the aircraft is the same person." The airport says they'll only keep it for 24h -- unless the police need them to keep it longer.
This will all but eliminate terrorism.
Oh, wait, no.
That only works if terrorists are so picky about which domestic flight they blow up that they have to blow up one coming from terminal 5.
Well, I suppose that if you're the kind of lazy suicide bomber who believes in dying for the cause -- but not if it means rebooking your ticket or, you know, driving to Stansted or Gatwick or East Midlands or Manchester, this'll work. And that sounds like a pretty good adversary analysis. We all know how easily dissuaded suicide bombers are.
Time to buy stock in the train companies.
Even if domestic passengers have a passport with them, they will still have to go through the biometric checks.
Dr Gus Hosein, of the London School of Economics, an expert on the impact on technology on civil liberties, is one of the scheme’s strongest critics.
He said: "There is no other country in the world that requires passengers travelling on internal flights to be fingerprinted. BAA says the fingerprint data will be destroyed, but the records of who has travelled within the country will not be, and it will provide a rich source of data for the police and intelligence agencies.
"I grew up in a society where you only fingerprinted people if you suspected them of being criminals. By doing this they will make innocent people feel like criminals.
"There will also be a suspicion that this is the thin end of the wedge, that we are being softened up by making fingerprinting seem normal in the run-up to things like ID cards."
Britain's breaking new ground in the slide into a total surveillance state: as of the end of this month, domestic passengers at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 will be fingerprinted and photographed twice,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
The launch of China's third manned space flight, the Shenzhou VII, has been set for late September or early October, state media Saturday quoted a leading space official as saying. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 7:27 am
Jay points out a Newsweek piece which suggests that the era of user-generated content is going to change in favor of fact-checking and more rigorous standards. The author points to Google's Knol and the "people-powered" search engine Mahalo as examples of the demand for more accurate information sharing. Quoting: "User-generated sites like Wikipedia, for all the stuff they get right, still find themselves in frequent dust-ups over inaccuracies, while community-posting boards like Craigslist have never been able to keep out scammers and frauds. Beyond performance, a series of miniscandals has called the whole "bring your own content" ethic into question. Last summer researchers in Palo Alto, Calif., uncovered secret elitism at Wikipedia when they found that 1 percent of the reference site's users make more than 50 percent of its edits. Perhaps more notoriously, four years ago a computer glitch revealed that Amazon.com's customer-written book reviews are often written by the book's author or a shill for the publisher. 'The wisdom of the crowds has peaked,' says Calacanis. 'Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0--the wisdom of the crowds--and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.'"
Sean Ragan says: "I was thinking about writing an adult Choose Your Own Adventure book so I made a visual map of my favorite CYOA book from when I was a kid. It's a directed graph with a node for each page and arrows indicating choices/page jumps."
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By LARRY CAPLAN I've had quite a few calls over the past week, with people being surprised to see lawn companies already out treating lawns. "There's still snow on the ground," one person told me. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 8 Mar 2008 | 5:00 am
blueton tips us to a brief story about recent revelations from the Pentagon which indicate that the attack on their computer network in June 2007 was more serious than they originally claimed. A DoD official recently remarked that the hackers were able to obtain an "amazing amount" of data. We previously discussed rumors that the Chinese People's Liberation Army was behind the attack. CNN has an article about Chinese hackers who claim to have successfully stolen information from the Pentagon. Quoting Ars Technica: "The intrusion was first detected during an IT restructuring that was underway at the time. By the time it was detected, malicious code had been in the system for at least two months, and was propagating via a known Windows exploit. The bug spread itself by e-mailing malicious payloads from one system on the network to another."
Chris says: "Here's interview with the governer of Montana on the Real ID that's being forced down states' throats by Homeland Security.
"This is the funniest interview I've heard with an elected politician on a security-related issue. He completely calls the Federal Government on their bluff, and completely dismantles the usefulness of this act. Please, start with the first minute. It gets better from there."
"We're putting up with the federal government on so many fronts, and nearly every month they come out with another hare-brained scheme ... to tell us that our life is going to be better if we just buckle under on some other kind of rule or regulation. And we usually just play along for a while. We ignore 'em for as long as we can. We try not to bring it to a head but if it comes to a head we found that it's best to tell 'em to go to Hell and run the state you wanna run your state.
Unfortunately this time around they've really got a hare-brained scheme... almost all those hijackers on 9/11 would have qualified for a Real ID."
Imagine that a $20 billion bank merger is about to be consummated, but the parties pause to spend weeks bickering about the fate of the branch in Minot, N.D. That is essentially what has happened to the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 2:37 am
ProfBooty brings us a story about England's Heathrow airport, which will begin fingerprinting passengers on its domestic flights later this month. Airport executives claim that the data will be stored for no longer than 24 hours, and will not be shared with law enforcement. We've previously discussed airport fingerprinting measures in the United States and Japan. Quoting: "All four million domestic passengers who will pass through Terminal 5 annually after it opens on March 27 will have four fingerprints taken, as well as being photographed, when they check in. To ensure the passenger boarding the aircraft is the same person, the fingerprinting process will be repeated just before they board the aircraft and the photograph will be compared with their face. Dr Gus Hosein, of the London School of Economics, an expert on the impact on technology on civil liberties, is one of the scheme's strongest critics. He said: 'There is no other country in the world that requires passengers travelling on internal flights to be fingerprinted. BAA says the fingerprint data will be destroyed, but the records of who has travelled within the country will not be, and it will provide a rich source of data for the police and intelligence agencies.'"
Feeling that good, old fashioned bloodlust? If you're going to vanquish some enemies, it's best to dress for the job. Make you own suit of armor from cheap, recycled aluminum. In Wired's How-To wiki.
The Large Binocular Telescope consists of two 8.4-meter mirrors which function in tandem to provide resolution greater than that of the Hubble Telescope. The LBT's first "binocular" images were captured recently, marking the end to a long and laborious construction process. We previously discussed the LBT when images were captured from the first mirror to be installed. Quoting: "The LBT ... will combine light to produce the image sharpness equivalent to a single 22.8-meter (75-foot) telescope. 'To have a fully functioning binocular telescope is not only a time for celebration here at LBT, but also for the entire astronomy community,' UA Steward Observatory Director, Regents' Professor and LBT Corp. President Peter A. Strittmatter said. 'The images that this telescope will produce will be like none seen before. The power and clarity of this machine is in a class of its own. It will provide unmatched ability to peer into history, seeing the birth of the universe.'"
WASHINGTON In pointed exchanges with Congressional lawmakers Friday, three prominent financial executives defended the multimillion-dollar pay packages they received even as their companies were brought... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:37 am
LONDON Competition is fierce in the European telecommunications industry, where companies are vying for customers by undercutting each other on prices for services like broadband while trying to keep... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:37 am
Yahoo Inc. increased two top executives' bonuses last year amid a deepening slump that set the stage for Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited bid for the struggling Internet pioneer. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:16 am
Yahoo Inc. increased two top executives' bonuses last year amid a deepening slump that set the stage for Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited bid for the struggling Internet pioneer. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:13 am
Ben Goldacre: All trials should be registered before they start, no trial should be passed by any ethics committee without a firm commitment to publish. No exceptions, because bad data costs lives Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 8 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
Ian Lamont writes "ICANN's current Joint Project Agreement with the US Commerce Department is set to expire in September of 2009, and ICANN wants to become more autonomous and switch to a global governance model, says ICANN's executive officer. The agreement between the nonprofit ICANN and the Commerce Department has been in place since 1998, and was renewed in 2006 despite international protests. A few US-based groups named in the article — including the Center for Democracy and Technology, the trade group TechNet and a conservative think tank iGrowthGlobal — would like the agreement with the Commerce Department to continue, in part to provide 'accountability.' The ICANN officer quoted in the article says expiration of the Commerce Department agreement would not remove accountability, as ICANN still has a contract with the US to operate the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and must follow California law governing nonprofits. The Register is running a related story about why some people are uncomfortable with the United States' influence on ICANN. We discussed ICANN's request for independence a few months ago."
Motorola Inc. said Friday that Stu Reed, formerly president of its troubled mobile device business, has left the company effective immediately. A spokeswoman said Reed had been... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:50 pm
The chief executive of cell-phone chip-maker Texas Instruments Inc. got compensation the company valued at $10.3 million in 2007, 17 percent less than the year before as the semiconductor Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:45 pm
A rare bird not seen for nearly 80 years has reappeared in the South Pacific off Papua New Guinea, Britain's leading bird protection charity said Friday. The Royal Society... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Terry Bosky suggests a recent interview from Game Couch with one of the authors of an upcoming book which fights the "myths and hysteria" surrounding violent video games. Dr. Cheryl K. Olson explains how many of the studies linking aggression with video games were flawed or misguided, and she discusses some of her own findings. Quoting: "Until now, the most-publicized studies came from a small group of experimental psychologists, studying college students playing nonviolent or violent games for 15 minutes. It's debatable whether those studies are relevant to real children, playing self-selected games for their own reasons (not for cash or extra credit!), in social settings, over many years. But media reports and political rhetoric often ignore that distinction. Also, the most-published researchers have built their careers around media violence. Their studies were designed under the assumption that violent video games are harmful, which dictated the questions they asked and how they framed their results. Media violence is just a small part of what we do, so we could look at the issue with fresh eyes and no agenda."
Calls have been made for improvements to Scotland's vote-counting system after a technical fault delayed a local by-election result for more than 12 hours. An... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:58 pm
A bird species not seen for 80 years has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea, experts said Friday. The Beck's petrel, long thought to be extinct, was photographed last summer by an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:36 pm
A bird species not seen for 80 years has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea, experts said Friday. The Beck's petrel, long thought to be extinct, was photographed last summer by an... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:33 pm
Farakin brings us a story about how cameras in roughly 200 Chicago schools are being connected to police headquarters and the city's 911 emergency center. The goal of the effort is to "consolidate video surveillance," and it will involve both routine monitoring and real-time updates to officers on their way to a crisis. According the the Chicago Tribune, "The mayor acknowledged the cameras provide only limited security, citing a spate of shootings in recent days that have claimed young victims during after-school hours." The story also contains a video in which Mayor Daley indicated that he expects the cameras to serve as a deterrent now that people know they're under the eye of the police.
Brickarms is a company that specializes in making highly detailed miniature toy guns for Lego figures. They have quite a wide range, including custom minifigs in military dress.
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This week's CRAFT magazine video podcast shows how to make a knitting pattern for this killer skeleton cardigan. In the podcast, Becky Stern details how she takes an antique anatomical illustration and uses Photoshop to convert it into a gridded knitting pattern. Next week, she'll show how to make the back panel of the actual sweater. Link(Thanks, PT!)
Josh Fink brings news of an Atlanta resident who has created a remote control robot to scare off criminals during the night. Rufus Terrill, an engineer, uses it to patrol the streets and encourage drug dealers and other shady characters to move on. Local residents call it his "Robocop." From CNN: "It's a barbecue smoker mounted on a three-wheeled scooter, and armed with an infrared camera, spotlight, loudspeaker and aluminum water cannon that shoots a stream of icy water about 20 feet. Operated by remote control, the robot spotlights trespassers on property down the street from his bar, O'Terrill's. Using a walkie-talkie, Terrill belts out through the robot's loudspeaker, 'That's private property. You guys need to get out of here.'"
In today's edition of Boing Boing tv, dramatic readings of real-life unsolicited emails. Part one, FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE. If one were pitching this to a movie studio, you might describe the plot as Grapes of Wrath meets SpanishPrisoner meets an ATM. Part two, DE@L OF A LIFETIME, a tasty dish of word salad.
Link to BBtv post, with discussion, downloadable video, and talent + image / video remix credits. NSFW: Includes opera music.
Here's a machinima video for a convulsively funny leet-speak cover the classic Muppet song "Manamanah." The giant Tauren backup singers are especially fine.
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YouTube takes down Wired's copy of a 30-second Air Force video promoting the service's new Cyber Command, supposedly in response to a DMCA claim from the Air Force, and despite the fact that U.S. government works can't be copyrighted.
A favorite target of hackers, Paris Hilton gets an earnest lesson in telephone security from 24-year-old white-hat phone phreak Lucky225. Paris: "People are mean."
The software that ships with every new Mac makes it easy to rip and burn music CDs. But what about video DVDs? That's trickier, but we show you how in this simple guide.
Behold the Sbarro Assystem city car. It has a "man-machine interface," an infrared camera and it looks like Daffy Duck's space helmet. Write the best caption for our pic and win a Wired T-shirt.
The roughly 600 researchers toiling for Hewlett-Packard will be redeployed to focus on 20 to 30 major projects, rather than the more typical 150. "We are going to make fewer, bigger bets," the CEO says.
Google mappers are barred from all U.S. military installations after images of a Texas base turned up on the site. Security is compromised, says the brass.
Recently on Boing Boing Gadgets I popped open the Heineken BeerTender for a look (video review, including drunken hair clipper work, coming shortly), ran an older interview with Gary Gygax who passed away this week (and posted his "Random Harlot Encounter Table"), got the first look at the new "Lego Collector" catalog coming out later this year, asked everyone to help me plan a week of blogging in the woods, saw a man play a Legend of Zelda song on a carrot ocarina, took a peek at iRobot's robot wi-fi access points for the military, questioned the merit of a negative-ion-producing notebook computer, noticed that Apple and Nike are adding iPod stats tracking for cardio machines, got prepped to enjoy Slurm in real life, looked at a concept phone that would be recycled each year, saw this generation's "Hit Stix" (and the amplifier, too), said that the Renault Megane has beautiful doors that will never make it to production, saw an expensive but high-fidelity haptic interface that uses electromagnetic toruses, were impressed with a PC case that was all heat sink, applauded Wired.com's Gygax tribute, noticed that a company is selling tiny guns and grenades for LEGO minifigs, found a keyring that inflates when submerged, as well as a device for cramming limes into beer bottles. Oh, and sea cucumbers and their sexy peristaltic wriggle inspired the creation of space age plastics. Finally, I asked if the iPhone could make a killer gaming platform, especially for experimental and indie games. (Spoiler: Duh.)
I'm off in the morning for SXSWi, so lock up your sea cucumbers and gird yourself for the worst haircut in blogging.
This week's CRAFT magazine video podcast shows how to make a knitting pattern for this killer skeleton cardigan. In the podcast, Becky Stern details how she takes an antique anatomical illustration and uses Photoshop to convert it into a gridded knitting pattern. Next week, she'll show how to make the back panel of the actual sweater.