http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=4559903574364211837
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WWII color guncam footage
Recently declassified guncamera footage from Allied aircraft in the European Theater during WWII.
BREAKING: Scientology confrontation caught on video!
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Starlings nearly take down a tree (video)
Via Google Video:
A swarming flock of European Starlings descend on a tree and almost bring it down.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6815781973393100875
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Why do you do what you do?
A new site wants you to answer that very question using little more than a piece of a paper, a pen and a camera:
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Ohio student tried to warn officials of network vulnerability four years before incident
In April, several hundred thousand files were compromised through a network security breach at Ohio University. Four years earlier, a student hacked the same system in an effort to demonstrate to officials the networks security holes. University officials didn’t listen.
Four years ago, Jeremy Valeda cracked the Ohio University computer servers and plucked a few Social Security numbers to prove that the system was vulnerable.
Instead of fixing the security problems, university officials focused on punishing him, said Valeda, who was a member of the Student Senate at the time.
Now the university is dealing with a computer crisis because hackers gained access to personal information in more than 367,000 files starting in mid-April. Valeda said it was no shock when a friend e-mailed him about the intrusion.
“This was not an ‘I told you so’ moment, and I wish nothing bad on anyone,” the 24-year-old Valeda said from his New York apartment. “But I certainly wasn’t surprised to hear the news.”
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The story of homeless bloggers
Wired News today has a story about homeless bloggers and their efforts to find WiFi hotspots, laptops, and the efforts of shelters to provide the homeless with e-mail addresses:
Many of those now living without a permanent roof over their heads have cell phones in their pockets or laptop computers at their hips. While people living in shelters and alleys have found it difficult to cross social divides, the digital divide seems to disappear on the streets. Nearly all homeless people have e-mail addresses, according to Michael Stoops, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. “More have e-mail than have post office boxes,” Stoops said. “The internet has been a big boon to the homeless.”
Helping the homeless get e-mail addresses has been a priority for years at shelters across the country. And in an age when most every public library in the nation offers internet access, the net has proven a perfect communication tool for those without a firm real-world address.
“Because of technology, people are able to keep in contact with their families,” Stoops said. And perhaps most importantly, they are able to get some footing in society regardless of how removed from it they may feel.
Michael Castellon 