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Watch an eerie mockup animation of Neil Gaiman’s fable about a heroic black cat # very good
The Price – The Original Animatic from Christopher Salmon on Vimeo. It’s been more than a year since we first learned of Christopher Salmon’s quest to bring Neil Gaiman’s short story “The Price” to life as an animated film. This week, he offered a clearer sense of his vision, posting the full-length animatic he used…
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Fun in a Cold Climate: Stained-Ice Igloo building
Original HT: Mel. She must have a blog somewhere.
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Funny, I’ve always assumed that at least some of the reason for calling it #BigData was by analogy to this:
Supermajor: Big Oil Petroleum and gas supermajors are sometimes collectively referred to as “Big Oil”, a term that emphasizes their economic power and perceived influence on politics, particularly in the United States. Big Oil is often associated with the Energy Lobby. Usually used to refer to the industry as a whole in a pejorative or derogatory manner, “Big…
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Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages – tech – 05 January 2013 – New Scientist /ht @PaulMarks12
Got a secret message to send? Say it with silence. A new technique can embed secret data during a phone call on Skype. “There are concerns that Skype calls can be intercepted and analysed,” says Wojciech Mazurczyk at the Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw, Poland. So his team’s SkypeHide system lets users hide extra, non-chat…
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Security Hypothetical
Watch Marcus Ranum’s RSA Video Read about ChaosMonkey at Netflix Consider the success of ChaosMonkey Radical notion: what we need is fewer firewalls, more hackers – both black- and white-hat – and an evolutionary approach towards securing our enterprises. Hmm. At least partly true; evolution in the face of a clear threat is the only…
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RSA Conference 2012 – Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! – Marcus Ranum # MUSTWATCH #cybersecurity #cybercrime #cyberwar
via RSA Conference 2012 — Cyber War: You’re Doing it Wrong! – Marcus Ranum – YouTube.
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Watching the LibDems risk backpedalling into #CCDP /cc @markpack @julianhuppert @drjennywoods @glyndaviesmp @glynmoody @glynwintle
So I ran into this report of a LibDem peer: Lib Dems must ‘grow up’ on Snooper’s Charter A Lib Dem peer has told his party it is time to “grow up” and support the Communications Data Bill. Lord Carlile of Berriew said there was a risk of the issue being turned into a “political…
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Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) #TechCrunch #Censorship
Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports that the change was made sometime between December 5 and December 8, 2012, with no official statement from Google to announce…
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BeetBox | Scott Made This #fun #music #raspberrypi
BeetBox is a simple instrument that allows users to play drum beats by touching actual beets. It is powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier in a handmade wooden enclosure. via BeetBox | Scott Made This.