Derelict London, safe-cracking, lock-hacking, MySpace suckage, Stardust screw-ups…

• 1 - Derelict London
  Does what it says on the tin…pictures of derelict parts of London. Horrible site layout, but acres of great pictures to see. Thank you, BoingBoing.
  (tags: buildings abandoned exploration images photos derelict urban photography architecture London)
• 2 - Safe autodialer
  The ultimate automated safe-cracking device - no explosives or stethoscope required.
  (tags: controller servo motor stepper hacks device machine defeat security pick safe crack lock)
• 3 - Understanding Space and Time
  Niall Harrison on the new Alastair Reynolds material.
  (tags: criticism literature writing scifi sf fiction science stories Time Space Understanding Reynolds Alastair)
• 4 - Bump keying
  Your barrell lock is easily hacked with a simple mod to a standard key. Just don’t upgrade to RFID, OK?
  (tags: safety property keys hacks lock lockpicking security)
• 5 - Night Thoughts on Human Expansion
  Centauri Dreams argues against collective species pessimism, and advocates a positive attitude to progress rather than a ‘it’s all screwed already, why bother’ sense of futility and failure.
  (tags: risk embrace research progression attitude positive futurism expansion human space)
• 6 - State of the Blogosphere, August 2006
  David ‘Technorati’ Sifry reports - apparently the blogosphere is doubling in size every six months or so at the moment, but 70% of pings are spams - I can vouch for the latter statistic.
  (tags: analysis visualization review report growth spam Blogosphere statistics blogging technorati)
• 7 - Why Does MySpace Suck So Badly?
  It’s not just me, then…David Louis Edelman hates Myspace too.
  (tags: API closed design ugly interoperability networking social functionality format poor MySpace)
• 8 - Conscious Machines
  VCTB interviews Prof. Igor Aleksander about Neural Systems Engineering - the field of science that is attempting to create conscious machines.
  (tags: cognition interview technology science futurism intelligence artificial engineering systems neural machines conscious Aleksander Igor)
• 9 - Electronics watchdog
  Another day, another poorly-thought-through patent. Yay.
  (tags: gadgets operation use authorise burglary deter device watchdog electronic patent technology)
• 10 - Brain stimulation that may boost vision from the corner of your eye
  Does what it says on the tin…
  (tags: brain fields magnetic vision peripheral cortex frontal stimulation research science)
• 11 - Stimulation of semicircular canals can control human walking and balance
  …also does what it says on the tin. We’re really learning to hack the human right now.
  (tags: walking balance control remote canals semi-circular stimulation electrical research science)
• 12 - Reflections of Hyperion: an irregular, dark place
  The Cassini probe has new images of Saturn’s runt moon, Hyperion, demonstrating the strange composition of the mysterious little satellite.
  (tags: surface composition tonal images oblong irregular Hyperion satellite moon probe Saturn Cassini space)
• 13 - Stardust@home battles early glitches
  Volunteers expecting to scour photos of dust particles in aerogel substrate instead received random beach/cyclist/wedding photos. No explanation given for screw-up.
  (tags: photos beach wedding glitch project stardust@home hunt dust interstellar sample aerogel stardust space)

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