Some headlines that have recently caught my eye are as follows.

[1] NASA Plans To Slam ‘Hammer’ into Comet - NASA to shatter comet Tempel 1 using a slab of copper. Unsurprisingly named “Deep Impact.” Farkers and Slashdotters alike are raising questions about whether the comet could be knocked off-course. However unlikely that is, I do actually wonder if it were possible, if we really tried. I don’t wonder much, mind you, but I do wonder.

[2] Shortwave Crypto - Some shortwave radio bands have been in use for years to transmit various messages that are encoded so tight you can’t ever crack it. (Read Simon Singh’s Code and get with it!)

[3] Nap Pods - William Gibson wrote about these in various stories novel-length and short, but they weren’t science fiction in Japan when he was writing about them. Now they’re not sci-fi here, either! Climb into a nap chair for 20 minutes and cough up $14. They’d make a killing off me.

[4] You Knew IRC Wouldn’t Be Safe Forever - Unfortunately, the Feds are looking into silent background monitoring of IRC chat rooms. Yikes. Makes me think that anonymizers, homemade proxies and otherwise, are going to come in vogue here shortly. What’s next, SSH IRC?

That’s it for tonight!

Some headlines that have recently caught my eye are as follows.

[5] NASA Plans To Slam ‘Hammer’ into Comet - NASA to shatter comet Tempel 1 using a slab of copper. Unsurprisingly named “Deep Impact.” Farkers and Slashdotters alike are raising questions about whether the comet could be knocked off-course. However unlikely that is, I do actually wonder if it were possible, if we really tried. I don’t wonder much, mind you, but I do wonder.

[6] Shortwave Crypto - Some shortwave radio bands have been in use for years to transmit various messages that are encoded so tight you can’t ever crack it. (Read Simon Singh’s Code and get with it!)

[7] Nap Pods - William Gibson wrote about these in various stories novel-length and short, but they weren’t science fiction in Japan when he was writing about them. Now they’re not sci-fi here, either! Climb into a nap chair for 20 minutes and cough up $14. They’d make a killing off me.

[8] You Knew IRC Wouldn’t Be Safe Forever - Unfortunately, the Feds are looking into silent background monitoring of IRC chat rooms. Yikes. Makes me think that anonymizers, homemade proxies and otherwise, are going to come in vogue here shortly. What’s next, SSH IRC?

That’s it for tonight!