brad | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2008 | telephone, cellular, privacy
Not just tin-foil-hat stuff (Sorry Chris!). Suspect's phones have been reprogrammed by the US govt. to transmit even though they appear to be turned off. Article notes implications for corporate executive security.
Quoted: Agency used novel surveillance technique on alleged Mafioso: activating his cell phone's microphone and then just listening.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 11 hours ago | video, japanese, diy, sarah
Japanese packaging using folded cloth. Instructions include video & images.
Quoted: Japanese art of Furoshiki, which is an Origami-like means of carrying virtually anything with a simple square of thin cloth, is easy to do
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 19 hours ago | isaac, cars
Charity event, adult Pinewood Derby among professional designers.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | education
Published in Times Higher Education (UK). A diatribe by a former instructor at Harvard.
Quoted: the sedulous banality of the rich degrades teaching into a service-class preoccupation whose chief duty is preparing clients for monied careers
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | education
Wikisource copy of the essay written by William James and published in the March 1903 Harvard Monthly. A nice incidental whirled whiled web harvest, cited by another author.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | paia, diy, electronics
The bobbin (back) thread is conductive, top thread is not. Conductive thread pads are added & LEDs are soldered to thread pads.
Quoted: it works! ;)
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - yesterday | diy, paia, electronics
SImilar to methods used for touch-drum projects.
Quoted: Sew together conductive fabric and anti-static plastic to make your own fabric pressure sensor!
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | free, books, funny
It's taken me 25 years to grow up enough to properly appreciate this very funny book. Four chapters are excerpted here, starting with chapter 16: Wm. Goebel: He Kept Trying
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | science education, sarah
118 videos on You Tube from the University of Nottingham, each an entertaining (and short!) presentation on a single element.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 6 days ago | subversion, svn, source control
Nice.
- brad | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | apple, video, iphone, linux, microsoft
Nice early look at Dell's Linux-based $299 mini-notebook. Great selection of images that appear to be cribbed PPT slides. These indicate that the use of Linux is core to this product's raison d'etre.
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