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Iraqi Fire Fight

Haunting depiction of a firefight – good story, good animation

Personal Data Protection and Disaster

Where are your important documents? You know the ones, birth certificates, marriage licenses, Social Security cards, Savings Bonds, legal documents, etc. What about your important pictures that can’t be replaced. Do you know exactly where these things are in case of a disaster?

When I say disaster I’m not only referring to something as massive as [...]

Soldiers’ Emotional Attachment to Robots

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501009_pf.html

The most effective way to find and destroy a land mine is to step on it.
This has bad results, of course, if you’re a human. But not so much if you’re a robot and have as many legs as a centipede sticking out from your body. That’s why Mark Tilden, a robotics physicist at the [...]

Too Much TV is Bad for Grades

New Scientist has an article about kids TV watching habits and the possible repercussions to their academic performance. I find this interesting because they did control for mental/learning problems before the study, which implies all these kids were on average capable. It also states that the habits remained the same as they grew up, so [...]

Distracted Teenagers with ADHD are more prone to Car Accidents

This study it seems was more on the effects of a specific medication and ADHD drivers. It seems that ADHD teens are a little more prone to distraction while driving than other groups of people. Who would have thought?

It’s something to remember when my kids get to be old enough to start asking to drive… [...]

Top Technology Stories of Interest

This is today’s pull through Slashdot and some articles I don’t want to lose. Some are very applicable to things that are going on right now with me at work and other are just curiosities I would like to follow-up on, when I have the time.

Versioning FS for Linux – revision control, intrusion detection, preventing [...]