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DARPA Announces Cyber Grand Challenge
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/10/22.aspx

Great! Lets have a contest to see who can build Skynet faster!

Disclosure: I just started a new job where I am working to help build Skynet:

http://www.hexiscyber.com/content/hawkeye-g-active-defense-grid

So far as I know (it …

This is a follow-on attempt to get my reader(s) to take a look at the article in my previous post. Matt blogs about his article and neatly summarizes his own more detailed report (see link above):

Looting Public Pensions: …

I was over at http://xkcd.com/, prompted by a link from a comment at a blog I follow, when I decided to catch up on the ones I haven’t seen yet. Many interesting ones, but this one stood out and …

The Pixar Theory: Every Character Lives in the Same Universe
http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/the-pixar-theory/

A pleasant diversion, this article, and I highly recommend it to those who have enjoyed Pixar movies (note to those of you who haven’t seen them: they are, for …

Forensic Fly Moves North
Insects can aid death investigations, but non-native species complicate matters.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130710-fly-blowfly-forensic-time-of-death-climate-science/

Kinda gross, but interesting to me since I have been interested in forensics since a teenager (I was _extremely_ skeptical of the original CSI because …

Car crash leaves Australian woman with French accent
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/world/australia-car-crash-new-french-accent/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Perhaps not as amusing for the sufferer, but amusing to me considering they are otherwise unimpaired.

I wonder, though, if they really have an ‘authentic’ accent (meaning they make the same …

In Virginia’s Fairfax County, Robbing Banks for the CIA
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/in-virginias-fairfax-county-robbing-banks-for-the-cia

The most amusing part is the last paragraph (no, don’t skip down to it!). Who could have guessed that the CIA was robbing banks? Oh wait, everyone!…

I’ve been sick the past few days. I think I got my boy’s bronchitis (that is not supposed to be contagious) and am hacking up a storm. Been watching lots of ‘tube, but nothing that prompted me to blog until …

Bought for $3 at yard sale, bowl sells for $2.2 million
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/business/sothebys-china-bowl/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

By my calculation that is a 741,666 times return on investment! Man, I would love to have that!…

Stop Blaming Trolls for the Patent Problem
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/stop-blaming-the-trolls-or-we-wont-be-able-to-fix-the-patent-system/

I talked about my ideas for patent reform before, but didn’t mention so-called patent trolls. Generally speaking (to me) these ‘trolls’ are not really gaming the system but are doing …