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Boston operator (to Portland operator): Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes.
Portland operator: Will do so. It is now disconnected.
Boston: Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?
Portland: Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually.
Boston: My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.
Portland: Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?
Boston: Yes. Go ahead.
--Eyewitness reports of the great auroral storm of 1859 [Science Direct]Portland operator: Will do so. It is now disconnected.
Boston: Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?
Portland: Better than with our batteries on. - Current comes and goes gradually.
Boston: My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.
Portland: Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?
Boston: Yes. Go ahead.
--image: Distant Writing
ALSOK unveils its giant, ultra-cute and friendly security bot, An9-PR --via Engadget
The Searchamaton (Satchi) anti-virus software bot from the award-winning, AR-packing Anime series, Denno Coil
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has unveiled a new search tool to sift through their collection of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. "Until recently, documents obtained under FOIA often gathered dust in filing cabinets," said David Sobel, EFF Senior Counsel and director of the organization's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. "We believe that government information should be widely available and easy to research, and our new search engine makes that a reality."
I recommend the material on the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse and DCS 3000 surveillance program, and the Department of Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System and ADVISE data-mining project.
Try it here... [press release]
-- via Slashdot
George Lois, the great art director behind some of Esquire's most iconic covers calls the October Cover of Esquire, that featured a blinking E-Ink display "A Mickey Mouse Light clicking on and off... it's not an idea." Gawker responds with "PWND!!1!" while Boing Boing Gadgets really hit the nail on the head after getting a first look with this line:
"The future of print journalism is the tag, apparently."
A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age
A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker
Esquire e-ink cover a pathetic disappointment -- Boing Boing Gadgets"The future of print journalism is the tag, apparently."
A Conversation with George Lois -- Advertising Age
A Gentle Critique Of Esquire -- Gawker
Overdrive, the company serving up e-books for New York's public libraries drives across the country in a big Semi, uses a variety of DRM, primarily Windows Media. In Central Park on Sunday, a rep. told me "they are working on getting Windows Media DRM working on Macs." (wtf?)
Continue reading Digital DRM-mobile and Open Source Digital Rights.
TELESURGERY!
Mark Fiala's ARTag SDK, a set of libraries created for Augmented Reality applications. Double-helping of brilliant, with a side of silly. Take that, Bruce Sterling!
Bruce Sterling on Ubiquitous Computing.
Perhaps this lecture by Bruce Sterling goes beyond the attention span of a savvy web-surfer like yourself, but it is a really wonderful approach to the coming wave of ubiquity in computing. It might take you a few sittings, but its challenging and enjoyable to have playing in a secondary Firefox tab while you're blogging. As I am right now.
-Hack.
Contour Reality Capture system [Mova] rendered in the Unreal 3 Engine. -via [joystiq]
Brejla, from the Czech Republic on Youtube throws down computer animation and music videos.
