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Tweets
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 hr ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 7 hrs ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 1 day ago
- Things I'm not doing this weekend: http://t.co/ZEW612Im #fb 3 days ago
- Filming a congressional hearing? Be ready to be arrested for it. http://t.co/C7fuwy9k #fb 4 days ago
- Campus is changing to require password updates 2x a year. Their recommendation for a "tough" password: @Qu2012! Yeah. #fb 5 days ago
- Maybe the AAA (http://t.co/2S4falTt) should listen to @cshirky ToTN (http://t.co/EAs81JRv). 5 days ago
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Moving
It seems the only ones posting to my site these days are the script-kiddies, who have nailed both my main pages recently, using (I am assuming) an insecure PHP script on my site to allow for shell commands to pass through. I’m guessing it is a hole in WordPress (I’m still running 1.2), but I’m [...]
Making phones work
Carolyn Marvin quotes the following account in her (excellent) When Old Technologies Were New about a farmer’s encounter with the newfangled telephone (p. 20): He then rolled up the paper and tried to push it in the aperture in the transmitter. Failing in his attempt with his finger, he took his lead pencil and jammed [...]
Taxonomic Terrorism
Via Smartmobs I learn of the Ministry of Reshelving, a project to relocate all copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from fiction to non-fiction sections of local bookstores.
Com Theory Book List
For those who are taking my communication theory course in the fall, please acquire these books before the semester begins. There will also be a fairly extensive collection of articles I will ask you to read, but you will have a chance to track these down when you arrive at the university. The following books [...]
Informatics Book List
For those who are taking my information science and services course in the fall, please acquire these books before the semester begins. There will also be a fairly extensive collection of articles I will ask you to read, but you will have a chance to track these down when you arrive at the university. The [...]
The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink
This handbill from Pasqua Roseee in 1652 almost makes me into a coffee drinker.
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