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POPSHe Vanished Here's the article. I really enjoyed it but it was a bit to long to clip (a lot to long) so here's the link. http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/
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POPSObama Asks His Left-Wing Brownshirts to Report Any Counter-Revolutionary Behavior.....
A new level of insanity has been reached, Obama wants people who are bad-mouthing his legislation reported. Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all Ulrike Poppe used to be one of the most surveilled women in East Germany. For 15 years, agents of the Stasi (short for Staatssicherheitsdienst, or State Security Service) followed her, bugged her phone and home, and harassed her unremittingly, right up until she and other dissidents helped bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. One shelf, just to the left of her desk, is special. It holds a pair of 3-inch-thick black binders " copies of the most important documents in Poppe's secret police files. This is her Stasi shelf. Poppe learned to recognize many of the men assigned to tail her each day. They had crew cuts and never wore jeans or sneakers. Sometimes they took pictures of her on the sidewalk,
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POPS Pork Flu Sterling at Wired links to CDC’s helpful household anti-swine flu hints, and adds reassuring perspective: People freak out over “pandemics,” even though we’ve got one of the worst pandemics in history, AIDS, raging through the carcass of the body-politic right now. AIDS is an extremely fearsome disease, practically 100% lethal, yet it’s hard work to get people to remain properly afraid of it. http://www.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/practical-tips.html That Schwein of a flu sure is going to stink up Obama’s big 100 Days speech. Speaking of which, here are some thoughts on that. Malkin, nice flyby! http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/28/heckuva-job-louie-and-barry/
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POPSSwine Flu: Some info "congressional Republicans stripped the economic stimulus plan of $900 million for state and local pandemic-readiness programs, and $462 million for the CDC. Bad move. Hard to explain to the electorate.
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POPSMystery Spots: Places Where Bizarre Forces Obscure Reality In broad daylight, the Bermuda Triangle just looks like the ocean. So photographer Uta Kögelsberger waited until nightfall to coax whatever creepy aura she could from the mysterious deep. "When we are in the darkness," she says, "the brain fills in what the eye can't see. Darkness is a fundamental instrument to induce terror, it can trick our minds into thinking a simple creak in a floorboard is an intruder." Watch a video montage of Uta Kögelsberger's photos and video taken during her month-long photoshoot of mystery spots. http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-05/ff_mysteryspots?currentPage=7
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POPSDocuments: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years MS Windows didn't become popular and well spread to so many without reason. The more control any one company or any government has over the core OS, the more likely it will have back doors and be prone to attacks. Whether you want to fend off a government or hackers, Windows is not the best choice, harden Linux and hardened Mac's are not better, not fullproof, but atleast the keys have not been left in the visor.
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POPSAstronauts need more exercise
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/astromuscles2.html : If the consequences of those missions are any guide, astronauts may have a difficult time recovering their full strength, and some may never regain it. And six months is the minimum time needed for a manned mission to reach Mars. However, the exercise of space station astronauts is limited to the machines they're given. Though a treadmill and stationary bicycle work fine, they're intended primarily for aerobic conditioning. Muscle strength is the responsibility of the Interim Resistance Exercise Device, or iRED — and, with a maximum resistance of just 300 pounds, it can't do the job. Simply maintaining muscle mass in space, said Trappe, requires a high-weight, low-repetition workout. The aRED is the first piece of NASA exercise equipment to meet this need. Providing resistance in each exercise are two piston-driven vacuum cylinders that are a bit like oversize bicycle pumps. Resistance increases as a piston is pul
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POPSFour ways Detroit can save itself Several great ideas for everyone, drivers and automakers alike. Lexus already has a self-parking car http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/clips/lexus-self-parking-car-video-and-review-196551.php and Ford is working on the idea http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/12/fords-that-park.html. Dedicated short-range communication to warn of nearby vehicles and obstacles is a no-brainer. I witnessed testing of the ‘car train’ in San Diego 10 years ago. Smarter cars are definitely the way to go. Bringing the internet into the car is especially nice.
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POPSHuffington Post Stealing Others' Writing? For its part, the Huff Post is claiming that it only uses part of an outside publisher's articles and then links back to their site for the rest. While it is certainly true that the Huff Post has links to the original source, the argument has been made that the Huff Post folks use nearly the entire article, instead of mere headlines or short segments. This is what is raising the ire of the print media folks that have found their on-line articles poached in total on the Huff Post site.
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