22
2002
How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time
An interesting paper was presented at Usenix on the creation of a worm that could rapidly gain control of 10,000,000 Internet hosts. If you’re not a Usenix member you can find the paper here
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22
2002
Folding@home Success
Nature has a story on Folding@home‘s success modeling the folding of a chain of 23 amino acids called BBA5. I run Folding@home on one of my machines using the Google Toolbar and, of course, SETI@home on the other.
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21
2002
T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations: Twinkies meet science.
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19
2002
Text Twist
I’m not usually a big fan of games (although I did get hooked on Collapse a while back), but Text Twist is pretty challenging.
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18
2002
Biohazard
The story of the development of the biohazard symbol in 1966.
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23
2002
Collective Font Development
There’s an interesting project over at Typophile: The Smaller Picture – where a font is being collectively designed by viewers of the site.
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12
2002
Apollo 11 30th Anniversary Site
I don’t know if I’ve posted this before or not, but I want to remember this link to NASA’s Apollo 11 30th Anniversary site, especially the Digital Picture Library.
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12
2002
Atmospheric Optics
Atmospheric Optics – from rainbows to nacreous clouds.
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11
2002
Cooking with Lava
Instructions for cooking with lava – first, get a shovel you don’t plan on using again…
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07
2002
75th anniversary of Television
Today is the 75th anniversary of the first televison transmission.
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