Money From ATMs

Couple ways to get money from ATMs: Wired points out how to hack the machine itself, NYT discusses how a bank in India was hacked allowing thieves in NYC to steal thousands from multiple machines, and the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal posted video on youtube of the simplest method of all.

Fed Spending (over 50 years)

NPR Money has a nice breakdown of Federal Spending from 1962-2012 in graphic.

Fast Buses

A Fast Bus is a public bus service where the bus has its own road to travel on, allowing riders to get where they need with the least delay as possible.  cool systems, some challenges.

Female Science Writers

Robert Krulwich posts an interesting piece on Science Blogger Emily Graslie, and the completely crazy challenges that woman science reporters have to deal with.

Yearly War on Christmas Poop

Fox news, always showing off their investigative reporting skills, does their yearly war on Christmas.  Of coarse it's all bile, but at least its great fodder for the Daily Show.  Now CNN posts a history of our governments involvement in Christmas and how it has in the past been much less involved.  

Kapton Tape Please!

Yes Virginia, you can own someones computer, look through their camera, and not have the "record" light hint to the user what is going on.  This is why it's a good idea to cover those cameras!

Three Blind Phreaks

Old favorite 2600 story from a while back.  It's about the blind Badir brothers, and how they completely owned Bezeq (Israels old MaBell)

Free Arcade Games Online!

The Internet Archive is publishing old video games online that you can play directly on your web browser!  All hail the Internet Archive!

Life @ Amazon in UK

Financial Times has an interesting piece on what working at Amazon in Rugeley UK is like. Hard work, job insecurity, and mindless work. Interesting how they do stuff, but also depressing. Moral of story: try as hard as you can to stay in school.