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April 2008
Georges Bataille Electronic Library
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory."
HAARP
HAARP is a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.
The HAARP program is committed to developing a world class ionospheric research facility consisting of:
* The Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency (HF) range. The IRI will be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere for scientific study.
VLF Radio Signals
The source of most natural radio signals is lightning. When a lightning bolt strikes, a massive amount of charge is moved and this acts in much the same way as moving charge in a radio transmitting antenna. The frequencies emitted by lightning range from 0 Hz to over 100 kHz with all frequencies being emitted simultaneously with the visible flash of lightning.
Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows
by 1 otherWubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!
Mateo-Art
little monsters, nice world
Testez le design de votre site dans différents navigateurs - Browsershots
by 151 others , 1 commentTestez le design de votre site dans différents navigateurs
Welcome to the OpenEEG project
by 1 otherMany people are interested in what is called neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback training, a generic mental training method which makes the trainee consciously aware of the general activity in the brain. This method shows great potential for improving many mental capabilities and exploring consciousness. Other people want to do experiments with brain-computer interfaces or just want to have a look at their brain at work.
LaTeX pour littéraires en html ou pdf
Vous trouverez ci-dessous un cours d'initiation à LATEX destiné à des personnes de profil «littéraire».
La lecture de ce court traité vous permettra de faire vos premiers pas avec LATEX, quel que soit votre système d'exploitation usuel, jusqu'à la rédaction d'un article ou d'un mémoire. Ensuite, vous saurez trouver ce qu'il vous manque sur l'internet.
Free ad serving software for web publishers | OpenX
OpenX is a hugely popular, free ad server designed by web publishers for web publishers. It provides everything you need to manage your online advertising.
Make more money from online advertising today.
Restaurant végétarien Green Garden
Dans un cadre reposant, au coeur du 13ème, vous
dégusterez de délicieuses spécialités végétariennes
asiatiques.
Viewfinder: How to Seamlessly "Flickrize" Google Earth
“Viewfinder” is a novel method for users to spatially situate, or “find the pose,” of their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth. Our objective is to provide a straightforward procedure for geo-locating photos of any kind, and our approach is to engage a community of users for a certain amount of human help. We specify that a 10-year-old should be able to find the pose of a photo in less than a minute, and we are convinced that this goal is achievable. While we are not entirely there yet, we are getting closer. This is our progress report.
Camera Zapper
Cameras are ubiquitous today, and, from a technology perspective, the revolution is just beginning. Video cameras are becoming smaller and cheaper while the Internet is enabling unlimited live webcasting.
Jigokudani Snow Monkey Live webcam
Since 1964, Jigokudani yaenkoen loved by many people in all over the world. Jigokudani Yaenkoen as a place where the interesting the mode of life of the Japanese Macaque can be observed nearby, and as a place of Monkey’s Onsen. And many researchers and photographers coming too, and they leave their achievements lots.
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March 2008
Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces
by 1 otherI have written before about my admiration for Web typography, and in that article I touched on the fact that many “Web safe” fonts can’t be applied to Linux. Linux distributions each ship with their own font libraries, but I’d like to focus on similar typefaces you can use within a font-family to help make your design bulletproof.
Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys - Center for information technology policy
Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images. We show that this phenomenon limits the ability of an operating system to protect cryptographic key material from an attacker with physical access. We use cold reboots to mount attacks on popular disk encryption systems — BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt, and TrueCrypt — using no special devices or materials. We experimentally characterize the extent and predictability of memory remanence and report that remanence times can be increased dramatically with simple techniques. We offer new algorithms for finding cryptographic keys in memory images and for correcting errors caused by bit decay. Though we discuss several strategies for partially mitigating these risks, we know of no simple remedy that would eliminate them.
TED
Ideas worth spreading, online videos, streaming, talks, conferences, download video/sound
February 2008
Commonsense Computing @ Media
The MIT Media Lab has embarked on an effort to give computers and other modern devices "common sense", the capacity to understand and reason about the world as intimately as people do. By giving machines common sense, they will finally be able to understand people, our goals and typical problems, and they will be able to better assist us in solving them or coming to terms with them--thus simplifying and humanizing the technology and tools of the digital age.
The International Dada Archive
Founded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of documentation and scholarship relating to Dada.
DNS2TCP
Dns2tcp est un outil permettant d'encapsuler des sessions TCP dans des paquets DNS. Aucun pilote spécifique, tel que TUN/TAP, n'est nécessaire pour le faire fonctionner. Ceci permet de le différencier des outils classiques qui encapsulent IP dans DNS. De plus, le client ne nécessite pas de droit particulier pour être lancé. L'encapsulation TCP génère des paquets DNS plus petits autorisant ainsi des débits plus importants.
Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders
This publication is dedicated to all human rights defenders, continuing their difficult and honest work, also on the Internet. Some of these people are in prison due to their activities on the Internet.
Mohammed Abbou is serving a 3,5 year prison term in Tunisia for publishing online an article that compared Tunisian prisons to Abu Ghraib.
LE CORPS DES FEMMES : GESTION - ÉLIMINATION
Pour chaque être humain, et pour l’humanité elle-même, le corps est le premier ustensile (avant l’outil fabriqué), dont les usages, érotisme compris, sont objets de savoir et de culture. Dans les sociétés patriarcales, le corps des femmes est objet de plaisir et de pouvoir ; objet aussi terrifiant qu’il est fascinant, d’emploi malaisé et aléatoire. Le présent chapitre évoque certaines variations récentes, à l’échelle historique, de l’usage social des femmes, de la contention à la prostitution en passant par la médicalisation de l’orgasme et l’éducation sexuelle, jusqu’à la tentation « gynécidaire ».
Bug Labs: Products
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/web community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program and share innovative devices and applications. We don't define the final products - you do.
January 2008
The Linux Wacom Project
by 1 otherThe Linux Wacom Project manages the drivers, libraries, and documentation for configuring and running Wacom tablets under the Linux operating system. It contains diagnostic applications as well as updated kernel drivers and XFree86/X11R6 XInput drivers.
