Weekend Reads: 04/25/2009

Cybersecurity
U.S. Under Cyber Attack
Beware Tainted Electronics Products
The FBI as the Ethical Hacker?

Gadgets
President Obama to get his Blackberry upgraded, rated for Top Secret Communications
U.S. Soldiers to get Cool Camo like the James Bond invisible car?

Misc
The Ultimate Geek
Cool Data Visualizations

A Different Search

You know how to search with ASCII characters, but what if you're looking for something else?

Visit THIS SITE to search for Unicode characters. And, BONUS!, here's the ability to convert from Unicode to HTML.

3D Search Results and Re-Tweet Me Button

Search Cube provides an interesting take on how search results are displayed, creating a cube that you can rotate and select your search results from. Right now, I'd say this isn't much good for anything except for graphical searches - how can you tell what's on the page that made up one of the spots on the cube? Maybe someone out there can help me understand how to use this better ... but for now, it's just a fun way to display results, but it doesn't help me search any better.

For all you Twitter fans out there, add some simple script language to your blog or webpage and let people easily "retweet" your stuff. And- the site says there's some tracking features. Cool. I'll have to let you know how some trials go. Check out ReTweet Me HERE.

An Easter Egg For You

David Ramel over at ComputerWorld collected 10 "Easter Eggs"** - fun programs hidden inside operating systems.

My favorite is for the Windows XP crowd:
Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII

All I can say is - Wow. That's the Mittness.

OK- one more. If you have Chrome (which you should try), type "about:internets" in the address bar. If you're not sure what the tab title and next screen means, let me know...

**not all are true Easter Eggs.

Weekend Reads: 04/11/2009

Defense Tech: DARPA Wants To Be Superman, See Through Concrete

Auto: GM, Segway collaborate and create 2-wheeled city transit vehicle

Internet Security: "Vision Test" For Conficker Virus

Internet Security: Increased Risk for Cyber Attack...

Software Gadgets: Make Your Desktop Look and Act Like a Real Desk

Random: Oldest Living Human Celebrates 115th Birthday

Phones & Codes and Walkie Talkies

Phones and Codes


Walkie Talkie

A Who's Who of Hackers

Emails have been ciruclating discussing the Conficker virus. Although not packing the punch it was thought to deliver, it still infected 1 in 25 computers, or about 4%, are infected.

I was reading about the worm and other cyber crimes, and stumbled across this Top 10 list of Blackhat and Whitehat hackers.

So, without further ado, I direct you this list of The Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time.