Links for 10-11-2006
Google Nuke-maps, wooden skyscraper, software image tagging, 12-year-old writes web browser, crowdsourcing border patrol…
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“…the wonks at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Federation of American Scientists have teamed up to make a Google Earth map of the nearly nearly 10,000 nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal.”
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“Hot ziggitty — a Klein Bottle that delivers liquid straight to your waiting lips. Yep – you heard me right. You can drink right from this cup. Pour in beer and it’s a Klein Stein. Would you believe Einstein’s Klein Stein?” Ultimate gift for maths/physic
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“This Russian man from St. Petersburg got his personal submarine. He built it himself and it is the smallest submarine in Russia, officially registered as a boat by Russian boat registry and has got it’s own personal name and number.”
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“When Perestroyka came about Nikolai Sutyagin used his money to start a lumber and construction business which brought him a substantial fortune. Now he needed a suitable residence.” Totally insane, but very cool.
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“The screen consists of concrete with embedded optical fibres, arranged as pixels, capable of transmitting natural as well as artificial light. The light-admission points are on the back of the screen where the fibres are positioned.” Very Ballardian.
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6 – Book Assembly“…pretty much step-by-step binding instructions for using a particular method of making a square bound book.” Just in case, you know.
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“Hunting for terrestrial planets is not going to be easy, and even when we start getting images of such worlds, there will be plenty of questions to answer.”
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“In its first real-world test, the program processed thousands of publicly accessible images available on the photo-sharing site Flickr. At least one accurate tag was generated for 98 percent of all the pictures analysed.”
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“There is no single cause, say experts, but rather a confluence of unfortunate events. One of the biggest problems is that the main vehicle for spam – … “botnets” – have been growing in size.”
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“Instead of tasking a massive team of developers to create their content, the developer behind SL, Linden Lab, simply built an infrastructure and the content creation tools necessary for other people to create whatever they could imagine.”
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“It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will pull the updates from any site and deliver them right to your favorite RSS reader.” Could be handy.
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“Now that the elections are over it appears that e-voting technology vendors have escaped total meltdown in yesterday’s elections. That’s about the best you could have hoped for, but you’re not out of the woods by a longshot.”
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St. Louis Public Library has a bumper crop of links for all sorts of information and resources concerning the history of aviation, with subsections on women aviators and WW2.
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A little explanation-and-utilisation post about a poorly understood facet of the mighty WordPress engine.
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Grumpy Old Bookman reviews.
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Round-up of James Tiptree Jr. resources on teh intarwebs, from the ever-resourceful Niall Harrison.
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“Locksport International is proud to provide a simple, visual guide to lock picking. It is our hope that beginners will find this useful in learning the basic skills of picking pin tumbler locks.” For information purposes only, natch.
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“The project is currently 88% complete but he is looking for some beta testers to find any bugs that may be in the program before it is released.” This is either a hoax or quite astonishing, or possibly both.
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“They claim their security fence will tap the internet with live video imagery and even email or call you on your cell when an intrusion has been detected in your area.” I’m sure this is really some lost Philip Dick plot.
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Cartoon illustrations of popular internet acronyms/1337isms. FTW!
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“According to MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, the digital revolution is over, and the good guys won. The next big change will be about manufacturing. Anyone with a PC will be able to build anything just by hitting ‘print.’”
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