Here's one for urban planners. Apple is proposing a new campus that will provide the following:
(shocker...Not!) Network World reports on Bloomberg story about how Cisco is resorting on intimidation tactics to sell their product. ...never saw anything like that before... :)
Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, and Michelle Melton from Georgetown University, put together a nice document outlining how much a degree is worth. There is also a nice article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reviewing it.
Well... More related to Wifi, how to troubleshoot it, and maybe to hack it too.
Cisco was concerned that Vomit was too difficult to run, so they made it a bit simpler to hack the phone system assuming that you deploy it with the out of the box configs. With IT shops known for liking their "IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid", this can only be a good thing!
Forget EA, how about Cat?
Nick Risinger is an astronomer who went nuts and decided to photograph ~all~ of the night's sky. (yea.. with no clouds) Well the end result is very cool, with a fantastic webpage that lets you pan and zoom of his huge mosaic photograph.The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures.
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On a journey that covered 45,000 miles by air and 15,000 by land—the equivalent of nearly 2½ passes around the equator—I toured much of the American west and twice visited the western Cape of South Africa. Through it I was able to enjoy not only the wonders of the natural world but also the company of my retired father whom I was able to convince had nothing better to do
