Complicity Theory

Hemingway, The KGB Spy? Archives Show Agent ‘Argo’ Was Willing Recruit. What can I say. It must be true.

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Hemingway, The KGB Spy? Archives Show Agent ‘Argo’ Was Willing Recruit. What can I say. It must be true.

Final Anne of Green Gables book reveals dark surprises… yes! Edited by our good friend Benjamin.

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Final Anne of Green Gables book reveals dark surprises… yes! Edited by our good friend Benjamin.

Rochelle warned me Pages bookstore going down

picture of pages bookstore

Very much my favourite bookstore over the years.

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PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks May Self Destruct

There are signs that the concerted cyber attacks targeting U.S. and Korean government and commercial Web sites this past week are beginning to wane. Yet, even if the assaults were to be completely blocked tomorrow, the attackers could still have one last, inglorious weapon in their arsenal: New evidence suggests that the malicious code responsible for spreading this attack includes instructions to overwrite the infected PC’s hard drive.

According to Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, the malware that powers this attack — a version of the Mydoom worm — is designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads “memory of the independence day,” followed by as many “u” characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.

Such an order would spell certain disaster for many tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows PCs. Several experts I spoke with yesterday and today estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 systems may be infected with this potentially suicidal malware.

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Google Image Search Implements CC License Filtering – Creative Commons
Today, Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Search tool. It is now easy to restrict your Image Search results to find images which have been tagged with our licenses, so that you can find content from across the web that you can share, use, and even modify. Searches are also capable of returning content under other licenses, such as the GNU Free Documentation License, or images that are in the public domain.

To filter by CC search, go to Google’s advanced Image Search page and select the options you’d like in the “Usage rights” section. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC licenses or other compatibly licensed photos.

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Google Image Search Implements CC License Filtering – Creative Commons
Today, Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Search tool. It is now easy to restrict your Image Search results to find images which have been tagged with our licenses, so that you can find content from across the web that you can share, use, and even modify. Searches are also capable of returning content under other licenses, such as the GNU Free Documentation License, or images that are in the public domain.

To filter by CC search, go to Google’s advanced Image Search page and select the options you’d like in the “Usage rights” section. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC licenses or other compatibly licensed photos.

National Federation of the Blind and American Council of the Blind File Discrimination Suit Against Arizona State University for asking students to use Kindle. Taking about user design issues. LOL

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National Federation of the Blind and American Council of the Blind File Discrimination Suit Against Arizona State University for asking students to use Kindle. Taking about user design issues. LOL

Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

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Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.

Danny won honourable mention as one of the August 2009 Ringtone Contest Finalists | Mac|Life

Thanks to everyone who entered, and especially to our finalists: Richard Busyak Jr Alarm, Danny Bakan Answer The Phone, Andrew Cowling Busy Ring, Justin Brown Happytone, Dennis Crawford I Love You Mommy, David Garrett Mother Ringtone, and Christopher Homick No Beans In Me. And of course, congratulations to Ken Franklin for his winning Jeeves 2009.

You should listen to them all, and you’ll realize that Danny’s has genius in it, and is the only one that’s really any good.

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I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts today. I realize I just don’t have the wherewithal negotiate them successfully without causing problems. And then I put them back, cause that’s my normal pattern… I edited out people I don’t actually get to interact with. I also realized that it will be best to not have students on either while they’re students… after the fact is fine. Summer time is time for editing things back.

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I deleted my facebook and twitter accounts today. I realize I just don’t have the wherewithal negotiate them successfully without causing problems. And then I put them back, cause that’s my normal pattern… I edited out people I don’t actually get to interact with. I also realized that it will be best to not have students on either while they’re students… after the fact is fine. Summer time is time for editing things back.

Making Ice Scream!, originally uploaded by jasonnolan.

Well, chocolate/raspberry/mint ices. Sister took it last night. Note the beads and panda mug.

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Making Ice Scream!, originally uploaded by jasonnolan.

Well, chocolate/raspberry/mint ices. Sister took it last night. Note the beads and panda mug.

Slashdot News Story | Pirate Party Coming To Canada

“After scoring a surprise electoral win in Sweden and getting high-profile support in Germany, The Pirate Party is coming to Canada. The party’s goals are fairly simple. People should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit. It opposes government and corporate monitoring of Internet activities, unless as part of a criminal investigation. It also wants to phase out patents.”

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Slashdot News Story | Pirate Party Coming To Canada

“After scoring a surprise electoral win in Sweden and getting high-profile support in Germany, The Pirate Party is coming to Canada. The party’s goals are fairly simple. People should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit. It opposes government and corporate monitoring of Internet activities, unless as part of a criminal investigation. It also wants to phase out patents.”

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Slashdot Science Story | Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution

Hawking says:

“‘At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race,’ Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, ‘an external transmission phase,’ where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. ‘But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage,’ Hawking says, ‘has grown enormously. Some people would use the term evolution only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.’”