<I>The Guardian</I> on books on cults and religious extremists. I love any list that calls <I>The DaVinci Code</I> "literary crack cocaine—reading it does you no good at all, but you just can't stop." Actually, I found it easy to put down and hard to pick back up.
The story that just won't stop. Over at Boing-Boing, they've posted a timeline of just this week's developments—and it's only Thursday.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has digitized over 5000 early recordings and posted some of them, including the Edison Blue Amberol of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic."
I've been listening for fun. With fun in mind, I mean. And it has been fun. I find myself, sitting there, chasing the sounds across the space in between the speakers. My eyes racing, images forming left and right, too much for me to keep up with.
Self-reconfiguring cubic blimps—you've gotta love 'em.
But this seems to be a legit product for "situational awareness in small unmanned platforms."
Why smoked salmon flavor, of course.
How much caffeine would it take to overdose?
They're very handsome, by the way. I've been meaning to mention that.
Dan Kaminsky has mapped 568,200 servers that have received DNS queries related to Sony's root kit incursion. Check the maps of the USA, Europe, and Asia to see how quickly this "virus" has invaded the World Wide Web. Scary pictures indeed.