Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween and Academe hauntings

We think of Bram Stoker around Halloween since about 100 years he
became famous as the author of "Dracula." Less well known is the fact
that earlier, at Trinity College, in Dublin, Bram Stoker presided
over the university historical society and also the university
philosophical society.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

key loggers

On some technical blog in the past week I read that typing on a
computer keyboard generates an electro magnetic transmission that
theoretically could be used to tell what you typed. Lots of keylogging
programs can be set to do this, but what I found amazing was that it
could be done remotely like the above indicates.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

early city discovered with novel aspects

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/22/cucuteni-neolithic-art.html

This links to an article about a city discovered in eastern Europe, one of the earliest cities, and
their unique layout, AND, the inhabitants burned them every 80 years.