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Innovation, Technology & Science
Maker Faire This Weekend
05.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

If you’re local to the Bay Area or even visiting, the annual Maker Faire is this weekend at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. My daughter and I went last year and will check out the action today:

Giant Mousetrap
Power tool drag racing
Steam powered vehicles
Robot wars (my daughter’s favorite)
Nose picking machine
Sensitive robotic giraffe
And much, much more…

It’s fun [...]

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Innovation, Technology & Science
Monty is a Busy Robot
05.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

And doesn’t always have time to vacuum. Thus, he got a Roomba robotic vacuum as an assistant. If you haven’t seen Monty, you’re missing a quantum leap in robotics…Watch the video after the jump.

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Technology & Science
Science At Work
04.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Sure, it’s convenient to think that there is some all powerful being behind the universe, but it’s even more convenient to observe, note differences, and form hypothesis (predictions.) The thing that is interesting about this video is that you can see the relationship between the observation, prediction, and the ultimate proof of the prediction.

HT: Rondam’s [...]

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Politics, Technology & Science
Political Hacks
04.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Both candidates have now been subjected to hacks with the latest example being a POST request to the Vote Hillary website and injects an iframe, causing the site to display the contents of Barack Obama’s website. Prior attacks have simply redirected the user’s browser to the other candidates website - this one is a little [...]

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Technology & Science
Damned Phishers
04.23.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

If you’ve been on the ‘net for any time at all, I’m sure you’ve gotten notes from phishers. What’s a phisher you ask? A sender of an unsolicited mail intended to lure you to visit a site and disclose sensitive information about yourself under false pretenses and for the benefit of the criminals. As a [...]

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