Ahh the power of the free exchange of memes. This week alone, on my memestream, their have been 2 stories posted only to later be mentioned on Slashdot: O'Reilly's Make Magazine, and "I found some of your life!"

Photos of the hardware all of Google ran on in 1999

Google's Hardware Setup in 1999

I don't know if this qualifies, but I thought if it as I was reading. It is a clear spray that you can put over your license plate that prevents cameras from being able to capture it on film. I found it interesting.

Nice find Stank.

PhantomPlate

] Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the
] technology in your life. Make is loaded with exciting
] projects that help you make the most of your technology
] at home and away from home. This is a magazine that
] celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any
] technology to your own will.

I've just contracted with O'Reilly to write an article for their first issue coming out in Spring 2005.

BTW: The Kite/photo rig they show here was used to take aerial photos at FOO Camp, with impressive results.

O'Reilly's Make Magazine

] Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets
] you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks
] toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see
] the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go
] directly to the articles that interest you -- saving you
] time.
]
] A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this
] icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking
] on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the
] Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and you will see Live
] Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people
] find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in
] their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

This rules.

Mozilla Firefox - Live Bookmarks

] "Broadband voice services are a new and emerging market,"
] said Stephen Carter, Ofcom Chief Executive. "Our first
] task as regulator is to keep out of the way."

With all the talk about slow technology adoption in the US we have had on Memestreams the last month or so, it's interesting to see how other countries differ. I could never imagine anyone at the FCC saying the above statement.

But would less regulation of emerging technologies increase the adoption rate in the US? We have companies that file patents but never make the product. Instead they generate revenue by suing people who infringe the patent. What do we need to do to increase the adoption rate, or at least create a better enviroment for cool technologies to be used, even if by only a small part of the population?

Technology adoption rate

] Trust-no-exe is a executable file filter. It attaches to
] the operating system and filters all executable files, be
] it .exe .com .dll .drv .sys .dpl etc from all drives and
] all network shares against a list of files or paths, you,
] the administrator provide as trusted applications. If a
] prohibited executable (one not in the allow list or one
] explicitly defined in the deny list) is loaded, a popup
] box informs the user with an intelligent message that can
] be customised to your site.

Interesting option for SysAdmins to prevent users from executing programs in Windows, even programs on non-NTFS partitions.

Trust-No-Exe

adamist wrote:
] JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the
] military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via
] e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about
] fraud and ballot secrecy.

... This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've seen a state government due since Georgia outlawed genital piercings.

E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns

Global Name Registry has recently received ICANN approval to launch Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) on .NAME. This will allow for registration of second level domain names with international characters.

.name is now a TLD

my.name

] To get a clearer idea of what had happened we walked
] outside. What we saw was terrifying. Everything that
] could be destroyed had been. The entire water coolant
] system was gone. The right-hand side of the reactor hall
] had been completely destroyed, and on the left the pipes
] were just hanging. That was when I realised that

This is an incredible read!
] Khodemchuk was definitely dead. The place where I was
] told he'd been standing was in ruins. The huge turbines
] were still standing, but everything around them was
] rubble. He must have been buried under that. From where I
] stood I could see a huge beam of projected light flooding
] up into infinity from the reactor. It was like a laser
] light, caused by the ionisation of the air. It was
] light-bluish, and it was very beautiful. I watched it for
] several seconds. If I'd stood there for just a few
] minutes I would probably have died on the spot because of
] gamma rays and neutrons and everything else that was
] spewing out. But Tregub yanked me around the corner to
] get me out the way. He was older and more experienced.

Interview with Chernobyl Engineer