Just don't call it "Silicon Alley," he says: Venture capitalist week I finally launched a web site at historyofphonephreaking.org . There is also a Ferrari pencil case containing an iPod, iPod accessories, various small cables and adaptors, a Leatherman Charge, a Stooges AAA tour laminate, some pain killers, some sharpies, some electrical tape, some business cards (Mr Rik Hart). Within the case there is also a big pair of Sony headphones (model MDR7506) with a long white beard, long white hair, a black priest's robe and a big Orthodox cross. Everybody was pointing at this strange character and grinning. Single-handedly, Dragan Dabic has been preparing the defense for Radovan Karadzic: but his laptop is in the hands of third parties.
“These very large databases of transactional information become honey pots for law enforcement or for litigants,” said Chris Hoofnagle, a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube [New York Times]
Buy the book: The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. [amazon]
Website, with first-person video. Flash required. Night of the Gun recounts David Carr's life as a crack addict, pieced back together through interviews with people who were part of his life at the time.
Part of what makes this so interesting to us is the crazy backstory. Syd explains:
The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to "dominate" cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be repaired and occupied by August 2008 which were actually completed and occupied – a total of 82 finished out of 10,000 projected.
1. Rank of New Orleans (Figure 2). This storm surge is characteristic of a Category 3 hurricane, providing a significant test of New Orleans' rebuilt levee system. Recent tide gauge readings from the east side of New Orleans show that a storm surge in excess of 7 feet has already occurred in Lake Borgne (Figure 1).
(3) BB reader Quincy Webster points us to others here , attributed to same. Perhaps they were concept pieces not approved by the client for publication, I'm not sure yet. I've asked AI to confirm or deny, I'll update the post when I receive a reply. --XJ )
(8) The New Orleans metbloggers are at it again today, with posts about "staying in town, CNN panic and levees getting topped."
Link to Boing Boing tv video podcast.
