You should know what BitTorrent means to your design document distribution...

Heather Green: Steven Soderbergh to Use BitTorrent. [Scripting News]

 

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Kent Newsome is selling some of his Second Life land at discount prices to get the kind of neighbors he wants. [Scripting News]

 

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Second Life is the software NYC Queens is using for stakeholder park design input...

I admit to being a complete novice at Second Life. I don't even know where to begin. If you have advice, please leave a comment. Maybe we should have a BloggerCon session for Second Life newbies? [Scripting News]

 

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LeadDog Releases New Street Maps (GISUser.com).

LeadDog Releases Street Maps for Numerous Egyptian Cities

From: GISUser.com
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - GIS industry news]

 

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Hacker hits Toronto transit message system, jabs prime minister. The scrolling LED signs on several Toronoto-area transit trains were apparently reprogrammed by a hacker last week. Rather than touting transit notices or ads, the signs offered a not-so-nice message about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. [Computerworld News]

 

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Cultural analysis anyone?

Sims the New Dolls?. philgross writes "According to the New York Times, lots of girls and younger teens are abandoning their dolls for the Sims. Says one professor, "We leave most of the social work in our society to women and The Sims lets young girls, in particular, work out their desires and conflicts about those relationships." Says another, "Children generally want to create characters, but with girls we see them wanting to create a friend." Meanwhile, says Will Wright, boys will "do the same stupid thing over and over again and be happy," (and I wince looking at my vast collection of first-person shooters). The article does quote one 10-year-old boy who plays with Sims, and has learned valuable life lessons. "I learned don't leave your baby crying or people will come take your baby away."" And I learned that if you lock Sims in your upstairs torture chamber, with no tiles to sit, they eventually cry themselves to death.

[Slashdot]

 

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Zombies attack Seattle hospital.

Hacker pleads guilty to botnet-fuelled assault

A California hacker has pleaded guilty to disrupting computer systems - including the network of a hospital - through a malware-fueled attack designed to install adware on infected PCs.…

[The Register]

 

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Hackers spamvertise World Cup wallchart Trojan.

What's the score?

A Trojan horse that poses as a World Cup wallchart has begun circulating on the net. The Haxdoor-IN Trojan horse is been spamvertised in messages, written in German, that purport a program that will allow fans to keep tab on football teams participating in next month's eagerly anticipated tournament.…

[The Register]

 

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You ought to be thinking about how you can describe your project design analysis in a 3 minute video clip...and distribute it online to all stakeholders... Guba sucks down video files from Usenet and converts them to Flash, and Peekvid cuts out Guba's interface so you can go straight to various TV shows. I have a feeling somebody's getting a big bandwidth bill and a stack of takedown notices. [Hack the Planet]

 

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