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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Are computers destroying our memory? |
| 5:28:44 am mst / 4 February 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source The Times 71 hits / 3 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Japanese scientists are concerned that "growing numbers of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe memory loss because of increasing reliance on computer technology", at least according to a recent study from Hokkaido University. One neuroscientist professor ominously warned, "Young people today are becoming stupid." |
| Although the claim is superficially plausible, it's not at all clear that computers are to blame. Perhaps there are other factors in the Japanese culture or environment that are playing a role. |
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| MIT museum of pranks |
| 8:49:11 am mst / 4 February 2001 found by paul / filed in fun / source Fox News 176 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| An article on the Hall of Hacks, a section of the MIT Museum devoted to some of the best practical jokes performed by MIT students. Exhibits include the police car which was placed in the middle of the night on top of the great dome in the center of campus (complete with "flashing lights, a dummy cop in the driver's seat, and doughnut remnants"), and the fake avant-garde art exhibit "No Knife" which was smuggled into the List Gallery of contemporary art. |
| There's a hilarious companion book for sale from the MIT Museum on the history of the various classic hacks and pranks. |
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| Exploding Whale |
| 11:15:33 am mst / 4 February 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Daily Radar 173 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Daily Radar has posted one of my favorite classics of the internet: the exploding whale. |
| Truly one of the most insane uses that explosives have ever been put to! |
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| So you've hired a hacker... |
| 4:10:31 pm mst / 4 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source IBM 189 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| WonkoSlice found this helpful FAQ on IBM's website for managers who want to know how to deal with a new hacker employee. There also a helpful companion FAQ for hackers on how to understand their managers. Both FAQ's also include, "DISCLAIMER: The author is a hacker. Bias is inevitable." |
| These FAQ's contain a surprising amount of truth!... |
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| Cybercrackers steal credit card details from world leaders |
| 8:09:42 pm mst / 4 February 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source Independent 87 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Crackers have infiltrated the World Economic Forum meeting held in Davos, Switzerland and "obtained the credit-card details of some of the world's richest and most powerful men, including the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the advertising tycoon Martin Sorrell, the financier George Soros, the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and Japan's Prime Minister, Yoshiro Mori." |
| I can't wait until we find out how they've been spending their money! |
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