October 2009
DARPA Network Challenge: Win $40,000 by Finding 10... →
To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. It’s offering $40,000 in hard cash to the first entrant who finds ten 8-foot weather balloons located at fixed locations around the U.S.
Watchit’s like watching an ad for freemans, Videos | The Official Avett Brothers Site
Preserved in ice for 100 years, the whisky... →
The cases of whisky have been left in the hut where they were found. If removed, Fastier explained, they could be damaged - and many experts feel such artefacts should remain in situ.
Slow Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The Slow Movement began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald’s restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome that sparked the creation of the Slow Food organization. Over time, this developed into a subculture in other areas, such as Slow Travel, Slow Shopping, and Slow Design.
Oh, this is wonderful.
jellybeanboom:
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.
(via New York Times)
NASA Launches Rocket as Clouds Break - NYTimes.com →
“As the rocket climbs its way through the atmosphere, what are the loads and the environment that it has to see?” Jeffrey Hanley, the manager of NASA’s Constellation program, said during a news conference Monday. “That’s what Ares I-X is going to inform us most about.”
Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look... →
It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.
Facebook Launches A New Hub For World Peace →
The most compelling portion offers a series of graphs depicting “Friendships of Facebook”, which shows how many members of historically hostile groups are becoming friends on Facebook
Be Charismatic and Influential | The Art of... →
If you can fill that void in people’s lives by focusing on them and acknowledging their importance, you’ll instantly bring them under your magnetic influence.
Facebook And MySpace In Talks To Connect - hypebot →
“Facebook is focusing on building the best technology which helps people share content, while at MySpace they are focusing on more a content-led strategy,” Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, told the UK’s Telegraph. “We would like to have their content, as we already do with many other sites, shared across our network because it is good for our users.”
Do you have what it takes to be a founder? |... →
This is the minimum feature set for founders.
Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon - Ars... →
Less than three months later, the US and Korea were each hit by a series of network-based attacks that are thought to have originated in North Korea.
Polluce →
This partnership has provided Anonimo with opportunities to test their dive watches during CNS’s underwater operations in a manner analogous to the role COMEX played with Rolex and Omega in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s during the development of the Rolex Sea Dweller and Omega PloProf.
U.S. Navy CIO: Social Media Should Be Part of... →
Most social networking tools come with no rules of the road. As the Internet moves towards user-generated content, we thought there was a void we could fill… to mitigate some of the security risks associated with social media.”
Tuthilltown Spirits Barrel Program | Tuthilltown... →
PROD could switch to bourbon this year for XMAS?
b) choose an entire barrel from our stock of aged spirits and have it bottled specifically for you
Indian Firms Shift Focus to the Poor - WSJ.com →
MUMBAI — Indian companies, long dependent on hand-me-down technology from developed nations, are becoming cutting-edge innovators as they target one of the world’s last untapped markets: the poor.
The Impossible Project →
The Impossible Project Inspires Polaroid To Re-Launch Instant Cameras
Google Voice messages appear in search results -... →
After transcripts of some voicemail messages from Google Voice users appeared in search results, Google has modified the telephony management service to prevent this from happening, the company said.
“In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is...”
– Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets | Danger Room | Wired.com
