• Wacom's Cintiq 21UX 21.3-incher - Engadget - www.engadget.com. Nifty... it's a monitor/drawing tablet in one; you just draw right on the screen.
• InformationWeek > Security > Hackers Demonstrate Their Skills in Vegas > August 1, 2005: Even allegedly foolproof biometrics aren't totally safe at Defcon, the conference where crackers, hackers, and feds come to share tips and tricks.
• Elevator hacking - Engadget - www.engadget.com: Apparently lots of elevators have an express mode that lets you override everyone else's selections and go straight to the floor you?re going to. You just press 'Door Close' and the button for your floor at the same time.
• Burtynsky at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University (enable flash to see the photos).
• boing:
  • Boing Boing: New police guidelines: shoot suicide bomber suspects in head: God help any iPod-toting, eye-contact-avoiding, sweaty nerds on the subway from user error.
  • Boing Boing: Windows Vista demands monitors with copy-protection for best viewing: A US tech consultant says technology in the new version will fuzz protected digital content unless it is viewed on a monitor which has High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). So, for most of us, no dice watching the DVDs you bought earlier today. Unless they were pirate copies with all that shit removed, of course.
  • Boing Boing: HOWTO write a Theory of Everything. I believe a certain professor at transpoly u has prior art and is releasing the clanks as we speak!
  • Boing Boing: Scientists clone dog. I'm not entirely sure if I'm less at ease with this than cloning humans. Funny how illogical humans are.

in other news, i feel sick as hell. damnit. but quote of the day goes to L while refusing to let me go to work: "your voice when you woke up could have been used to make a driveway".

At least my contact with the upstairs neighbours went well... we've been hearing a dripping tap for a while now. Finally caught them at home and in one very short conversation all is well. Maybe I'll finally get to sleep!

[I resisted the urge to do a multiple-keystrike 'asleep on keyboard' joke.]

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