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Archive for February, 2009
Pop-up books are great
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Psycho Buildings – Artists take on architecture
Friday, February 13th, 2009
From Sofie and Art blog:
As the internet meme understatedly puts it; “This is relevant to my interests”. I’m working on a proposal for a Masters in Fine Arts dealing with the built environment, and stumbled upon the announcement of this exhibition about a year too late. For your viewing pleasure, check out some images from Psycho Buidlings.
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BackTrack 4 beta release
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
from Hackaday.com:
BackTrack is a Linux distribution specifically created for security auditing purposes. For example, wardriving tools are available “out-of-the-box”, and there is an extensive exploit library.
This new beta is both stable and usable. They’ve moved towards behaving like an actual distribution: it’s based on Debian core, they use Ubuntu software, and they’re running their own BackTrack repositories for future updates. There are a lot of new features, but the one we’re most interested in is the built in Pico card support. You can use the FPGAs to generate rainbow tables and do lookups for things like WPA, GSM, and Bluetooth cracking.
Download from www.remote-exploit.org
Personal Rapid Transit
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009link via Slashdot:
Small, automatic electric vehicles will be demonstrated in two new projects.
from the Technology Review article:
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems are supposed to combine the convenience and privacy of automobiles with the environmental benefits of mass transit. Automated electric vehicles, or pods, each designed to carry from four to six people, wait at stations throughout a city or development, like taxis waiting at taxi stands. A person or group gets in a pod and selects a destination and the vehicle drives there directly.
Two of these PRT systems are being installed this year, one at Heathrow International Airport, near London, and one in the United Arab Emirates, where it will be the primary source of transportation in Masdar City.
This is cool, but it’s not obvious to me why people can’t just walk a few steps between station and destination, and use the (already-proven, less complicated) light-rail model.
Blueful
Friday, February 6th, 2009via IndieGames.com
Blueful is an interactive fiction work written by Aaron Reed. You must follow “clues” and navigate through websites to read each part of the story. It works very well, and gives a sense of travelling and exploring which fits the story. All up it takes about 30 minutes to read. Worth a look!
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