Pizdata.

Putting it all together with Robert Kahn

Great link on making a vector space search engine in perl, with links to resources on other kinds of search engines as well at the end.

perl.com: Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl [Feb. 19, 2003]

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I am the coolest stud at MIT. I hacked an old-school telephone handset on my cell phone. Now I walk around Cambridge MA, looking like a phat pimp!

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Why I'm the Coolest Stud at MIT

By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2001; Page A01

TEHRAN -- Arash Fahimi is a teenager in a nation that frowns on dating, outlaws rock music and offers a 17-year-old almost no chance for travel beyond its borders.

But Fahimi, like hundreds of thousands of young Iranians, has discovered an escape from his cultural cocoon. Sitting at a computer terminal in an Internet cafe, he downloads the latest Western pop music hits and chats daily with cyber-acquaintances around the globe. He even found a girlfriend on the Internet.

"I want to have a better idea of what the world is like," said Fahimi, earphones clamped under a Nike baseball cap and fingers tapping out a chat room response on his screen. "If I can't make a trip abroad, the Internet is the best way."

washingtonpost.com: Cybermania Takes Iran by Surprise

] In the photo above is the webACE: a Fairchild ACE1101MT8
] microcontroller programmed as a Web server and containing
] two tiny web pages in its on-chip memory. Since the
] ACE1101MT8 is the smallest available microcontroller, I
] believe that this really is the World's Smallest Web
] Server.

This is the platform used in that fly article. This article is a little more informative. I don't really care about the fly. I care about the server. Links to a number of other more practical platforms such as PIC based servers (they are technically larger, but basically the idea is the same). A little digging and you'll find a number of open source TCP/IP stacks for microcontrollers.

This is of use if you want to embed internet connectivity into extremely small devices. The next question is how small can you make your bluetooth transmitter.

Tiny webserver, without the fly

The links kicked my ass. The Air force lab projects, like the geo-whatever... oh fuck I'm tired. Go look though. Pretty SOM visualization, and things of that nature.

Perspective: The first 'e-war'

Alright, so I'm over recommending the eXile... but I found this article on the weakness of American Carrier groups very interesting, in light of current events.

eXile #156 - War Nerd - U Sank My Carrier! - by Gary Brecher

Needless to say, the ability for any keyholder to obtain system-wide access represents a serious potential threat to the security of master-keyed installations. Individuals and institutions that depend on such locks to protect their safety and property should be aware of these risks and consider alternatives to eliminate or reduce their exposure to this threat.

Matt Blaze is at it again ... this paper has a Markus Kuhn / Ross Anderson flavor to it. (There is a news article in today's NYT about this paper.)

Master-Keyed Lock Vulnerability

Nice honda oriented auto performance resource with a kick ass web board. Want make car go fast? Read.

HondaLife.com Automotive Technical Resource

Pretty flying backpack.

CNN.com - For sale: Personal strap-on aircraft - Jan. 16, 2003