Google shares its security secrets

Seeded on Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:06 PM EDT (ITnews)

"Google presents a big fat target for would-be hackers and attackers. At the RSA conference Google offered security professionals a look at its internal security systems.

google, technology, security

HP sends server customers virus-infected USB keys

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 4:58 PM EDT (Engadget)

It looks like HP Australia and its enterprise customers are the latest victims.

technology, virus, hp, usb, fakerecy, sillyfdc

Forager will live on dead animals, roadkill and wild plants for a year or How to Never have Sex ever again

Seeded on Sun Apr 6, 2008 8:33 PM EDT (the Mail online)

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Forager will live on dead animals, roadkill and wild plants for a year Mr Drennan has been interested in foraging since he was a child and has learned to recognize what wild food is not poisonous to humans. He is a successful chef specializing in dishes made from such food, bu …

health, wild, plants, chef, roadkill, forager, dead-animals, foraging, drennan

Monkeys reveal brain is hard-wired for counting - life - 30 October 2007 - New Scientist

Seeded on Fri Nov 2, 2007 2:44 AM EDT (New Scientist)

Not only can monkeys recognise written numbers, but individual brain cells may become dedicated to specific numbers, suggests research

news, numbers, brain, monkeys

Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' Sets Its Own Terms

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:50 AM EDT (NPR)

Radiohead made its seventh studio album, In Rainbows, available on the Internet. The 10-song work is the British band's first new release since it separated from Capitol Records, the label that promoted Radiohead's music for more than a decade.

entertainment, radiohead, in-rainbows, new-radiohead-cd, thom-yorkes

In dire straits: Two dams need fix -- yesterday

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:33 AM EDT (News Impact - MLive.com)

Someday, a brand-new kind of Hamilton Dam could cross the Flint River, one that lets spawning walleye journey upstream and kayakers shoot down artificial rapids through the University of Michigan-Flint campus.

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Man gets probation for secret apartment at mall

Seeded on Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:28 AM EDT (CNN)

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) -- The leader of an artists' cooperative has been sentenced to probation for setting up a secret apartment inside a shopping mall's parking garage as part of a project on mall life.

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Simon Pegg to play Scotty

Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:55 PM EDT (The Register (UK))

Brit thespo Simon Pegg, who's previously entertained the crowds in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, will play a young Scotty in the next celluloid Star Trek outing, Reuters reports.

entertainment, movies, star-trek, scotty, shaun-of-the-dead, simon-pegg, hot-fuzz

Internet Smellovision by 2012?

Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:21 PM EST (Wired News)

A South Korean thinktank has put out its latest prognostication paper, imagining that mobile phone batteries will last two months between charges by 2012, robots would do routine surgery by 2018, rich armies would deploy invisibility armor by 2015 (!) and, best of all, the intern …

technology, tv, future, smell

Sex Reversal In Frogs An Effect Of Drugs In The Environment

Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:17 PM EST (Science Daily)

Frogs are more sensitive to hormone-disturbing environmental pollutants than was previously thought.

drugs, science, enviroment, frogs, sex-reversal

What does your sleeping position actually say about you

Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:49 PM EST (Flat Seats)

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are. So .... what does your sleeping position actually say about you ?

science, sleep, personality