Treehugger: Biomimetic Building Uses Termite Mound As Model: The Eastgate Centre is a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe. The building was designed to be ventilated and cooled entirely by natural means — it was biomimetically modeled on local termite mounds. It was probably the first building in the world to...
Archive for August, 2006
JitterBugs could turn your keyboard against you
JitterBugs could turn your keyboard against you: JitterBug devices are conceptually similar to keystroke loggers, such as the one famously used by the FBI to gather evidence against bookmaker Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. Unlike keystroke loggers, which would have to be physically installed into a subject’s computer and then retrieved, a keyboard JitterBug only needs...
CNET News.com: Verizon heeds call of fuel cells
Verizon heeds call of fuel cells | CNET News.com: Verizon’s Garden City project is unique because it uses fuel cells as its primary source of energy. Seven fuel cells generate power for a 292,000-square-foot facility that provides telephone and data services to some 35,000 customers on Long Island. And it’s connected to the commercial...
Free Software Magazine: Your data or your life
The state of healthcare in our nation has been in bad shape for quite a while. I will elaborate more on that in a future post. Free Software Magazine brought a new issue to my attention. The debate between proprietary vs non-proprietary software has been raging on for as long as I can remember....
InfoWorld: Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits – Analysis
Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-31 | By Peter Wayner:
Treehugger: The ‘Frig-Enerator-Water Supply’: A Working US Army Sponsored Prototype
Treehugger has an upate to the technology that the University of Florida is working on to provide refrigeration, water, and power from one device. I previously spoke about this in the post New system provides power, water and refrigeration from one source. This new post at Treehugger has a picture of the device. Treehugger:...
Treehugger: Indoor Landscaping – Growing Green Inside
The post Treehugger: Indoor Landscaping – Growing Green Inside shows a picture of indoor landscaping. It is a wall of green. Very interesting concept. It must make the space feel much more alive.
AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data The utter stupidity of this is staggering. AOL has released very private data about its users without their permission. While the AOL username has been changed to a random ID number, the abilitiy to analyze all searches by a single user...
Thought your lock was safe? – Bump Keying
Here is a particularly scary development. This video shows that taking existing keys and making a few slight alterations will allow you to open other people’s locks. The special key is called a bump key. Lock pickers do not particularly like the idea because it requires no skill. I wonder how to get safer...
Feds threaten to sue if Maine probes Verizon ties to NSA – Boston.com
The Bush Administration is really blowing it. Is that news? Feds threaten to sue if Maine probes Verizon ties to NSA – Boston.com