Last year, I posted about the passing of a legendary phone phreaker named Joybubbles .
The smell is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended (nasa.gov).
I've also been enjoying the cheerful tweets of the Mars Rover , where I first heard this news . Click for larger size which shows the message in entirety.
Also on this same day, I received an interesting update from Greg Walton, a SecDev Fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto who also edits the Infowar Monitor editor Greg Walton, whose related account I just blogged here ) adds:
Such tactics are not only political weapons. The start of the Beijing Olympics last week kicked off a slew of malicious internet activity. Some are relatively indiscriminate ? using malicious software embedded in innocent websites, often of news organisations with audience numbers boosted by their sports coverage, which then infects the visitor's computer. Some are more sophisticated.
MessageLabs, a security company, detected a bogus email sent to at least 19 national sporting organisations that purported to be International Olympic Committee information on media plans for the Games, but was actually carrying a trojan which takes control of the PC and scans all files and networks to steal information.
See this related news story in the UK -- here, scientist-vloggers are in the process of posting a video for each element of the periodic table. Sort of " Mythbusters " meets chemistry, with real live awesome mad scientist hair . This Balao-class ship was built in 1943, and today one of her younger volunteer caretakers schools us on all the gadgets, gizmos, and old-school technology that kept this baby cruising to Pearl Harbor and back.
Did you know that subs like this couldn't submerge for more than 24 hours back then, because they'd run out of battery life?
( Update : We were told by a frequent sharer-of-tips that these ads came from Amnesty International, but BB readers point out that the ads lists the URL "amnesty.com," while the advocacy group's domain is in fact .org. BB commenter ulor points us to this url , with other ads from the campaign, credited to TBWA, Paris; BB commenter Leslie points us to a new video just released by Radiohead for the earliest recorded version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart". Here is a story in the Porter Report with aggressive wit and offbeat charm. Today, part one of his exclusive interview for Boing Boing tv blog post with viewer discussion, downloadable video, and instructions on how to subscribe to the BBtv video podcast.
Previously:
* Nazi Petting Zoo
* Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets
* Orwell's 1984 deconstructed by puppets
* Monochrom: Campfire at Will
* Mark's Curie Engine / Monochrom's love song for Lessig
