Failing again. Failing better.
Today, Gizmodo posted an article about a gun that makes you stop talking–the SpeechJammer. The way the gun works is that it interferes with how you hear yourself talking, confusing your brain, and ultimately making you physically unable to talk normally. The SpeechJammer is being marketed as an interruption-preventer (during meetings, say) and as a…
Today, Gizmodo posted a great article about a potentially world-changing device brought to you by the Space Biosciences Division of NASA: the biocapsule. As the article states, if NASA wants pursue manned space exploration, the astronauts will need to treat themselves for a variety of ailments or injuries. The biocapsule could make this process quick…
Gizmodo has an interesting article today about a mysterious object that appears when a coronal mass ejection (CME) reaches Mercury. The site has been updated to show another video taken from another angle as well that seems to show a similar object. Already people are making UFO comments. A CME is a burst of solar…
Stories are circulating today trying to explain why CIA assets in Lebanon may have been rolled up by Hezbollah. The stories, if true, point to lazy tradecraft by CIA officers who were tasked with spying on the Iran-backed terrorist group. Even worse is that CIA officers working in Lebanon had been warned against such laziness…
Today, Bruce Schneier linked to a story about Max Schrems’s response to discovering exactly what data Facebook is collecting about him. Schrems, a 24-year old law student in Vienna, was shocked to find that Facebook had the equivalent of 1,200 pages of data on him, covering 57 categories. Because Facebook has a headquarters in Dublin,…