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Pressure on to Check Tires
Colder weather reduces tire pressure, so now is a good time to check your vehicle to keep it safe and fuel efficient. In Autopia. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..
Boarding Pass Hacker Goes Offline
A controversial, do-it-yourself boarding pass generator disappears from the web soon after its creator says in an instant message that the FBI is at his door. In 27B Stroke 6. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 p.m..
How Do You Mark the Spot?
Do you del.icio.us, or do you prefer to StumbleUpon? Have a fondness for Ma.gnolia? Tell us which dot-inflected service you use to share bookmarks with the web's other link junkies. In Monkey Bites. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 7:46 p.m..
Boarding Pass Hacker Under Fire
Congressman Ed Markey wants the government to arrest a graduate student for launching a website that lets users create fake boarding passes capable of fooling airport screeners. That'll fix everything! By Ryan Singel. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 6:45 p.m..
Jail Time for Boarding Pass Fake?
Rep. Ed Markey wants a security researcher arrested for launching a website that lets users create bogus boarding passes capable of fooling airport screeners. In 27B Stroke 6. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 4:46 p.m..
Mission: Hype a Multimedia Phone
Buy Nokia's slick N93 video-playing handset in select countries and you'll get a miniSD card containing the full-length Tom Cruise flick, Mission: Impossible III. In Gear Factor. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Ford Needs to Fix SUVs First
Buying cheaper parts from China may boost the ailing automaker's bottom line a bit, but offering SUVs that decelerate our demand for oil would be the fastest road to recovery. In Autopia. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Scott Adams 'Hacks' His Brain
First the Dilbert creator loses his voice due to a rare condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. Now he reveals in an amazingly affecting personal blog post how he learned to speak again. In Bodyhack. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
Diebold Made Fixes, on the QT
The maker of the controversial electronic voting machine fails to let Maryland election officials know that it replaced the motherboards on 4,700 potentially faulty machines in four Maryland counties, raising questions about whether the company violated state contracts. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..
A Read/Write Web Learning Curriculum
Clarence summarizes the points in Henry Jenkins’ latest white paper and adds more fuel to the conversation in terms of moving away from teaching content simply to regurgitate it and moving toward teaching content in the context of developing skills for learning, and I think they are worth repeating here: Play" the capacity to experiment with [...] From
weblogged News on October 27, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..
Quote of the Day–Terry Elliot
Terry Elliott has been one of my off and on teachers for a very long time, and it’s made me very happy of late that he’s been more active in his blogging and commenting. He writes with depth and passion, and there’s almost always a take away idea that makes me think. “I have been [...] From
weblogged News on October 27, 2006 at 12:45 p.m..
Various authors - Sloodle - 3D Learning Management System
Well I guess it had to happen. Or, at least, to be proposed. This page is the development wiki for Sloodle - 'Second Life With Moodle'. "Imagine a Moodle course that, if you wanted, could turn into a proper 3D interactive classroom with all your Moodle resources available to your students in the virtual world." This is very doable, since you can import external objects (such as videos) into Second Life. To me, the greater challenge will be fusing an open source LMS into a commercial 3D environment. But hey, it might work! Then Blackboard will say it invented it. [
OLDaily on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..
Peter Suber - HHMI is Considering An OA Mandate - Open Access News
Peter Suber adds up the numbers. "The HHMI hasn't yet adopted a policy. But if we count its mandate proposal in the mandate column, and do the same for the mandate proposal at Canada's CIHR, and if we count the new semi-mandate in Austria as a mandate, then the HHMI proposal is the eighth OA mandate this month. There are the four new mandates from the RCUK, the expansion of the existing mandate at the Wellcome Trust, the Austrian policy, the CIHR draft, and now the HHMI. We've never had a month like this." The tide is turning and the web with it. [
OLDaily on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..
Arthur Sale - The Acquisition of Open Access Research Articles - First Monday
One of the things that has surprised me about open access is the indifference of most professors. This is why it has been argued, "Mandatory policies are now widely recognized as the only way to achieve close to 100 percent of content in institutional repositories." Even with mandatory compliance, it can take up to three years to begin to get the content into the repositories. But once established, according to this paper, the process works smoothly. [
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OLDaily on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..
Press Release - IBM Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against Amazon.com - IBM
Seriously, I don't care at all what one large corporation does to another, and in the long run, it makes no difference. And after its one-click patent lawsuits, Amazon deserves what it gets. But the significant here is that this latest patent fight illustrates that there is utterly no point developing commercial software or online services unless you are a billion dollar company. Be as innovative as you want, you'll still be dinged with a ridiculous lawsuit for "Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service" or "Storing Data in an Interactive Network" or even "Ordering Items Usin From
OLDaily on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..
Cory Doctorow - Copyrighted Fabric: No Selling the Stuff You Make From It - Boing Boing
Another example of the sorry state our society is finding itself in, as anything and everything must be monitized. It is worth noting that the blog post caused the company to reword their requirement into a request. Related:
Interviews with students on copyright. "Education efforts are seen as phony and unconvincing, lawsuits as unlikely, and even college-supplied access to legal music services may perpetuate a view of media as free, offering little educational value." Hence, leading people to think of them like
OLDaily on October 27, 2006 at 10:45 a.m..
Deep Blue See
The Neptune Project sets out to reveal the mysteries of the sea by connecting 10 semiautomated geobiological labs bristling with cameras and sensors 8,000 feet underwater. By Doug Merlino for Wired magazine. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Sci-Fi Shorts
Inspired by Hemingway's six-word short story that he called his best work, Wired magazine solicits very brief stories from the likes of Stan Lee, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin and William Shatner. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
Stop Sex Infections the Smart Way
The latest sex tech to cross into the mainstream from the adult industry has a serious purpose: reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections. It has worked in porn and it can work for you. Commentary by Regina Lynn. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
A Better Way to Build a Face
Facial scarring is one of the toughest challenges for plastic surgeons, and full transplants may be the best option for some patients. But a Stanford team wants to learn how to grow a new face instead. By Kristen Philipkoski. From
Wired News on October 27, 2006 at 6:45 a.m..
