My Wolfram Alpha Demo
I got the opportunity a couple days ago to get a demo of Wolfram Alpha from Stephen Wolfram himself. It’s an impressive thing, and I can sympathize a bit with them on the overblown publicity. Wolfram...
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Just Landed in…
Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data: This got me thinking about the data that is hidden in various social network information streams – Facebook & Twitter updates in...
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The Art of Mathematics
Paul Nylander has some amazingly beautiful mathematical constructs which he’s ray-tracing. Via Aleks Jakulin.
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Happy Banned Books Week!
Quoting Michael Zimmer: [Yesterday was] the start of Banned Books Week 2009, the 28th annual celebration of the freedom to choose what we read, as well as the freedom to select from a full array of...
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Truth in Advertising Comes to Facebook Ads
It’s hard not to be impressed by an ad like this.
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Map of Where Tourists Take Pictures
Eric Fischer is doing work on comparing locals and tourists and where they photograph based on big Flickr data. It’s fascinating to try to identify cities from the thumbnails in his “Locals and...
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Emergent Map: Streets of the US
This is really cool. All Streets is a map of the United States made of nothing but roads. A surprisingly accurate map of the country emerges from the chaos of our roads: All Streets consists of 240...
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A Mini-Review of “The Practice of Network Security Monitoring”
Recently the kind folks at No Starch Press sent me a review copy of Rich Bejtlich’s newest book The Practice of Network Security Monitoring and I can’t recommend it enough. It is well worth reading...
View ArticleDiagrams in Threat Modeling
When I think about how to threat model well, one of the elements that is most important is how much people need to keep in their heads, the cognitive load if you will. In reading Charlie Stross’s blog...
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