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7 songs, 28:33 minutes

A plus D - Close To Konichiwa Bitches (Robyn vs. The Cure)

Santogold / xxxchange - L.E.S. Artistes (xxxchange remix)

Tokyo Police Club - Be Good (RAC Remix)

Dmitry Fyodorov - 1b-1

Trade Secrets - I Know You Got Soul (Acen Remix)

PJtheVIKING - Raining Blows (Original)

The Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin (A Copycat Remix)

Because really, what kind of computer skills are a bunch of square-jawed g.i. joes going to have?

In an interview with techie forum Slashdot in early March, he was asked if hackers with checkered pasts, and overweight geeks who couldn’t pass a physical training test, were candidates to join the growing ranks of cyber soldiers. “I believe even the most unlikely candidate, when working for a cause bigger than himself, turns out to be a most loyal ally,” the general wrote.
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A visit to the embryonic Air Force Cyber Command at Barksdale by BusinessWeek reporters in March shows how the Air Force’s current ad campaign is more a Hollywood-version of Cyber Command. In an aging former recreation building on Barksdale’s leafy grounds, fatigue-clad airmen—some with the physiques of couch-potato hackers—use off-the-shelf PCs to monitor Air Force computer network traffic.

Recruiting for the Cyber Wars | BusinessWeek

Word of the day:

Zoonosis

Any infectious disease that is able to be transmitted (by a vector) from other animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis).

The word is derived from the Greek words zoon (animal) (IPA: zo’on) and nosos (disease). Many serious diseases fall under this category.

In magazines it’s called copyediting. In software it’s called QA. It’s been a staple of assembly lines since they were invented.

Now it turns out your body does it too.

Quality Control Mechanism Tags Defective Sperm Cells Inside the Body

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An outlet I wrote for back when I was a freelancer records someone reading their feature articles. Who knew?

A City’s Living Secrets (article)

A City’s Living Secrets (mp3)

This was a fun one to research - the Baltimore and Arizona ecosystem studies are the only large-scale studies of urban ecosystems in the U.S.

Since more and more of the world is built environment — in other words, where people live — these kinds of ecosystems are the new normal.

Fun facts:

* Lawn grass is the 2nd most-cultivated crop in the U.S., after corn

* The Baltimore Ecosystem Study includes the neighborhoods depicted in The Wire

actually, I’m kind of a geek

Originally uploaded by christopher mims

I’ve always thought I was more of a Nerd than a Geek (science-focused vs. tech-focused…) but apparently there’s a lot of overlap. And occasionally something like packing for a trip brings it into focus.

Today Paul Krugman points out that the current fed chariman’s tepid announcement of his likely too little too late response to the mortgage lending disaster stops short of directly rebuking his predecessor, Alan Greenspan.

“Market discipline has in some cases broken down, and the incentives to follow prudent lending procedures have, at times, eroded.”

So why would Greenspan have refrained from regulating the mortgage industry when it was clear that it was out of control? Could it be an ideological zeal for unregulated markets born of early influences?

One of Rand’s most famous devotees is Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve

I don’t have time to explain. Just go check it out.

This is called Synergy, baby

Originally uploaded by o2b

via Tim Murtaugh’s excuse for a blog