Another batch of links for you all. The WikiLeaks thing keeps on showing up, but it appears that the furor has died down quite a bit. I’m glad about that, but can’t say that I’m pleased to note the trend out there towards preemptively censoring things.
Have a look at Are We Too Dumb for Democracy? The Logic Behind Self-Delusion. It’s quite an interesting article, addressing how, when confronted with facts which contradict our beliefs, we tend to discard the fact, rather than the belief. Not a good thought, really.
In any event, here they are, the links of the past few weeks. Enjoy!
Copyright:
- Democratic Underground Responds to Righthaven Copyright Troll Lawsuit 8 December 2010, 12:58 pm
- Porn Site Says Revealing Takedown Notices Infringe Copyright 23 December 2010, 10:15 am
- 2010 Trend Watch Update: Hardware Hacking 26 December 2010, 12:09 pm
Ebooks:
- Microfiction writing site Ficly.com: 22,000 ficlets in and still going 21 December 2010, 7:15 am
- Observant Jews have problems with ebooks/ereaders on the Sabbath 23 December 2010, 6:10 am
- The classics coming back to life because of ereaders 27 December 2010, 7:57 am
- Ebooks at year-end 2010 27 December 2010, 1:44 pm
Education:
- Best Colleges for Women and Minorities in STEM 17 December 2010, 11:32 am
- UK literacy program Booktrust to lose government funding in April, 2011 21 December 2010, 2:38 am
- Study questions seniority-based teacher layoffs 24 December 2010, 7:00 am
Law:
- Rosetta Stone, Google in Showdown Over Web Searches 21 December 2010, 2:57 am
- What We Mean When We Say States’ Rights 21 December 2010, 2:39 pm
- “Twitter joke trial” Paul Chambers wins right to appeal 22 December 2010, 7:08 am
- Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation awarded damages 22 December 2010, 1:13 pm
- Case Closed? Court Issues Final Judgment in NSA Spying Case, Al-Haramain v. Obama 22 December 2010, 3:55 pm
Library / Museum / Archive:
- Google releases new database of 500 billion words 17 December 2010, 7:40 am
- Human-Assisted Computer Search in EDD 18 December 2010, 12:02 pm
- Google Ngrams: OCR and metadata 19 December 2010, 2:04 pm
- British Library project to map pronunciation seeks children’s book readers from around the world 19 December 2010, 2:10 pm
- S.F. Irish oral history project preserves memories 26 December 2010, 10:05 am
- Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming 27 December 2010, 7:34 am
- Rare Discovery of Intact Tomb: German Archeologists Uncover Celtic Treasure 29 December 2010, 3:32 am
Medical Technology:
- Researchers Open the Door to Biological Computers 17 December 2010, 11:33 am
- Are We Too Dumb for Democracy? The Logic Behind Self-Delusion 19 December 2010, 1:00 pm
- A New Ad That Gets Inside Your Head — Literally 20 December 2010, 4:06 am
- Study links emotional and neural responses to musical performance 20 December 2010, 8:00 am
- Listening to Music Actually Makes You Smarter 21 December 2010, 7:00 am
- Robotic surgery for head and neck cancer shows promise 26 December 2010, 8:00 am
Miscellany:
- The 10 Greediest People of the Year 20 December 2010, 11:00 am
- Self-published pedophilia guide author arrested 21 December 2010, 6:15 am
- Solar-Powered Hornet Found; Turns Light Into Electricity 22 December 2010, 7:22 am
- Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers 28 December 2010, 7:34 am
Politics:
- Historic Georgia Inmate Strike: Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages for Work 17 December 2010, 6:00 am
- Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: US Bullies Spain into Proposed Website Blocking Law 17 December 2010, 12:08 pm
- Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans 18 December 2010, 12:00 am
- Celebrating Ten Years of Derivatives Deregulation 21 December 2010, 3:09 pm
- Sending Money Overseas for the Holidays? The Government Wants to Know. 23 December 2010, 1:47 pm
- Google Should Pay for Network Usage, France Says 25 December 2010, 7:21 am
- EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases 25 December 2010, 7:21 am
- Wilderness rules restored for public lands 25 December 2010, 7:21 am
- Hackers Watch a World Collapsing Into Chaos 27 December 2010, 5:20 am
Privacy:
- New Report Calls for Online Privacy Bill of Rights 17 December 2010, 11:31 am
- Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are 17 December 2010, 11:32 am
- US Government Creating Vast Domestic Snooping Machine 20 December 2010, 9:00 am
- Warrantless-Wiretap Win Nets Victims a Paltry $40K 21 December 2010, 5:49 pm
- Flaws Spotlighted in Tor Anonymity Network 27 December 2010, 5:58 pm
- Movement to enable Web surfers to avoid tracking 29 December 2010, 7:46 am
Robotics:
- Black Ghost Knifefish Robot Unmasks Movement Secrets 21 December 2010, 4:01 pm
- Robot waiters in China never lose patience 23 December 2010, 6:49 am
- Artificial Intelligence Makes Some Progress, but Robots Still Can’t Match Humans 25 December 2010, 11:21 am
- New Cognitive Robotics Lab Launched at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 25 December 2010, 11:21 am
Security:
- What is Traitorware? 23 December 2010, 4:34 pm
- 2010 Trend Watch Update: Attacks on Cryptography 25 December 2010, 6:03 am
- DARPA Goal for Cybersecurity: Change the Game 25 December 2010, 11:22 am
- 2010: The Year the Internet Went to War 27 December 2010, 4:00 am
- Report Strengthens Suspicions That Stuxnet Sabotaged Iran’s Nuclear Plant 27 December 2010, 10:08 am
- A Four-Day Dive Into Stuxnet’s Heart 27 December 2010, 5:27 pm
- Gadgets Bring New Opportunities for Hackers 28 December 2010, 8:55 am
- Breaking GSM With a $15 Phone … Plus Smarts 28 December 2010, 10:25 am
- Simplest Phones Open to ‘SMS of Death’ 28 December 2010, 11:20 am
- McAfee points out cyber-criminals’ likely targets 29 December 2010, 7:46 am
Social Media:
- Knowledge is Power: Facebook’s Exceptional Approach to Vulnerability Disclosure 17 December 2010, 9:46 am
- Facebook Will Miss You 18 December 2010, 7:38 am
- The masses help scholars transcribe manuscripts 28 December 2010, 8:49 am
Technology:
- President’s Advisory Group Finds Most Federal IT Funds Being Misused 17 December 2010, 11:31 am
- The year in nonsense 17 December 2010, 11:42 am
- UN Mulls Internet Regulation Options 20 December 2010, 8:32 am
- Open Source Parallel Filesystem Group Launched in Europe 20 December 2010, 8:33 am
- For Software Developers, More Speed and Mobility 20 December 2010, 8:38 am
- Computerized camera lens may be just around corner 28 December 2010, 3:41 am
- The Emotional Computer 28 December 2010, 8:56 am
- Question of the year: does Amazon have too much power? 29 December 2010, 7:34 am
- FCC adopts net neutrality rules 29 December 2010, 7:46 am
WikiLeaks:
- The World from Berlin: US Seems ‘Helpless’ in the Fight against Assange 17 December 2010, 6:21 am
- The Witch Hunt Against Assange Is Turning into an Extremely Dangerous Assault on Journalism Itself 17 December 2010, 4:00 pm
- Bank of America stops handling WikiLeaks payments 18 December 2010, 9:10 am
- Evil US Deeds Exposed by WikiLeaks 19 December 2010, 12:00 pm
- SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: ‘WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat’ 20 December 2010, 6:18 am
- WikiLeaks chief says US preparing to indict him 20 December 2010, 7:19 am
- Video: The Time Julian Assange Hacked the Pentagon 20 December 2010, 2:19 pm
- WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured 21 December 2010, 8:00 am
- Apple Bans Lame WikiLeaks App 21 December 2010, 1:11 pm
- Lawmakers Must Respect Freedom of Expression in Wikileaks Debate 22 December 2010, 8:02 am
- Wikileaks Mirror Taken Down: Host Buckles Under Demands from Upstream Provider 22 December 2010, 6:19 pm
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