WiFi Pineapple

Slashdot points out the Pineapple, a wifi hacking device for $80.  A must have gift for the holidays!

Car Pool?

Planet Money shows in graphs how for the last 70 years, the US has been relying more and more on private vehicles to get people to work and less ans less on alternative modes of transportation.

Marine Dead Zones

Earth Observatory has an interesting graphic listing all the dead zones in the sea, and the size of them.

candlestick

Slashdot points out Alex Wellerstein's interactive map which shows the explosive force of different nukes or with different yields and the fall out area from them, and does this over any spot on google maps.  (never realized how big some of those bombs got.)

Want to buy a WOPR?

Too bad. It was just a prop that no longer exists.  (bummer.. I'd get it just for the blinky lights!)  But.. the good news is that IT World has pointed out that the PC's that David used is still around, and is up for sale.  Hope someone gets it and gives it to the Computer History Museum.

Gifting Drugs as a CyberAttack

Funny story about the security journalist Brian Krebs.  Apparently there are some folks out there that really don't like him, and they have been doing all sorts of "aggressive" pranks from swatting him to most recently, mailing heroin to his house and narcing on him to the police.