I, For One, Welcome Our New Computer Hacker Overlords
First, watch this great video on how computer algorithms shape our world:
Then, read about the Stuxnet computer worm/supercyberweapon; and finally about the how the US drone fleet was hit by a virus but it was no big deal.
I, for one, welcome our new computer hacker overlords.
Awesome…
Jae Rhim Lee’s Mushroom Burial Suit (For Daniel, even though he doesn’t exist on the internet…)
(via TED.com)
Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S. Government →
… Google handed over one user’s private data to the U.S. government, who requested it without a search warrant.
So much for “Don’t be evil…”
(Source: youtube.com)
We wrote a computer program that replicates the Web's best link blogger →
Enter Robottke. Over the last few weeks, Chris Wilson has been building a machine that aims to automatically generate links you might find on Kottke.org. Robottke isn’t meant to replace flesh-and-blood Kottke; we just want to come up with a list of items that Jason Kottke might link to each day.
You can check out Robbotke here. How does it work? We began by crawling all the sources that Jason Kottke is likely to look at every day—we look at all the sites he links to, and all the stuff that people he follows on Twitter are sharing. The hard part is choosing the best, most Kottke-like links from Robottke’s collection. It’s helpful that the human Kottke meticulously tags all of his posts with keywords. When Robottke finds a link, it searches for topics that it knows Kottke likes—the more it finds, the higher the article ranks.
Face Substitution (by Kyle McDonald)
Sketchduino - In action (by joetcochran)
I raved about Chunky Move last fall and here comes Team Iluminate (not quite as good IMHO, but still really cool.)
(Source: youtube.com)
