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2002-11-25
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Bookbinding looks like it could be the next big hobby among the cultural
vanguard. Fortunately for normal folk, there are many good websites
providing free information on the topic which should at least allow one to
socialise inconspicuously at social events up to mid-stratum.
This page:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/
Has some good info on preservation of old pulp printed books by copying and
re-binding them yourself. Also has info on things like what sort of paper
is most permanent, and judging archival quality of a photocopier's output
(hint: use lightest setting that gives acceptable copies). Very detailed.
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/edres/pathfinders/martin.pdf
has lots of good links, though mostly focussing on simpler projects
suitable for reforming juvenile criminals.
Danish man's description of two types of bind, simple glue bind, and a more
involved stitched binding:
http://home.tiscali.dk/8x061259/About%20books..htm
Bookbinding examples:
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/conservation/models/
Lie-flat bookbinding:
http://www.temperproductions.com/flexible_strength.htm
"Just as the grass gives to the wind so a book can give to the
photocopy machine."
Practical Bookbinding (bit heavy on terminology):
http://bookbinding.net/rebinding/frame.htm
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A Swedish scientist developed painful blisters on his genitals after
using a laptop computer for an extended period of time. Trousers were
not sufficient protection
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B28635092 [The Lancet]
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5537969%255E15306,00.html
The Register also reported the story, and from a bit of reader-contributed
investigative Google searching/reporting, it appears the offending machine
is a Dell Latitude:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28245.html
##################### DRUGS AND MORE ####################################
Bit about shenanigans by drug companies milking the public for every penny
they can... found the link on boingboing.net. Interesting article, and
enjoyable if you like a healthy dose of cynicism (a very economical
medicine, I hear, and now available without prescription).
http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1117/coverstory_entire.htm
Also interesting is this article on GM crops intended to produce
pharmaceutical products:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1120-06.htm
It would appear that such crops can be grown before the drugs they might
produce have received FDA approval. Cross contamination of neighbouring
food-crops has resulted in the need to burn acres of farmland. The cross
contamination would effectively result in experimental/untested drugs being
fed to the public. There problem is not GM, the problem is arrogant
disregard for fellow life.
##################### NEW PHASE: ########################################
Microsoft Windows NT 4.x, Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE enter the
"Non-Supported Phase":
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycleconsumer.mspx
on June 30, 2003. No future security fixes will be available for those
products after that date. Quite a lot of people out there are still using
Win98 of some sort. For example, look at these statistics to see how much
NT, 95, 98 account for:
http://www.ipstat.com/cgi-bin/stats?name=gaelspell#bb11
Maybe GWBush and Co. should intervene... looks like a bit of
"cybersecurity" risk to cut all these systems loose.
##################### WORDS #############################################
Interpretations:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1118/p06s01-wome.html
Israeli media reported yesterday that the Palestinian gunmen targeted
the soldiers and policemen who were escorting the settlers, not the
settlers themselves.
##################### SEGWAY ############################################
Two from The Register:
Segways go on sale. No need to walk ever again
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28157.html
Why does self-balancing Segway need kick stand?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/28201.html
##################### YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ##############################
IE security hole:
http://www.jmu.edu/computing/security/info/iehot.shtml
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,56463,00.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/19/174214&mode=nested&tid=128
Suchetha wrote in with a Wired News bit talking about security hole in
IE that allows malicious web pages to reformat a hard drive. The Wired
talks more about bugtrack's handling of the whole thing, and how it
essentially posted working code for the exploit. Was it irresponsible
or not?
##################### READS #############################################
Great Books and Classics: Links to lots of freely available classic
literature.
http://www.grtbooks.com/
##################### CHAT ##############################################
Also good, is this google based chatbot:
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/catty.shtml
The suite of programs will also do things like write random weblogs for
you, or tell you whether somebody is evil:
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/evilfinder/ef.shtml
Site even has a guide to building a robot (almost 140kb of text!). Lot of
emphasis placed on economics of the project, and total cost is approx USD50
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/robot.txt
##################### EAT ###############################################
Send pizza to the Israeli army
http://pizzaidf.org/
This was on boingboing.net, the first few comments in the discussion are
interesting and (IMHO) balanced:
http://quicktopic.com/17/H/fyUZEQPvZLX
"Why would you want to do this? Is there an urge among Americans to buy
food for a foreign army? Why not offer other armies to feed? I'm not
sure I like this."
And another poster:
"Israel. Palestine.
You know, they're both kinda vicious. And I don't care who started it,
I'm going to pull over right now if it doesn't stop."
##################### BUT DON'T INHALE ##################################
This to That: what glue to use for a job
http://www.thistothat.com/cgi-bin/glue.cgi?lang=en
##################### CHEESE! ###########################################
Metadata in digital photography:
http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/14/photo_metadata.html
##################### OF COURSE IT'S INTERESTING ########################
Lots of good links in the next story
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/2032225&mode=nested&tid=172
"After pushing OpenSSH to perform feats of secure tunnelling far beyond
what I ever expected it could do, it became clear that some genuinely
useful modes of network operation were simply inaccessible without
either replacing or manipulating core network protocols. Since the
basic infrastructure of the Internet isn't likely to change any time
soon, that left...creative manipulation and reconstruction of the
Lingua Reseaux: TCP/IP. Taking advantage of expectations, pitting
layers against each other, finding new uses for old options and data
fields -- instead of simply unleashing the latest incarnation of some
"Ping of Death", could such work unveil hidden functionality within
existing networks? As I discussed at Black Hat 2002 and the inimitable
Defcon X, the answer is yes. And now, proof of this is ready. BSD
Licensed (in deference to the very source of TCP/IP), The Paketto
Keiretsu, Version 1.0, is a collection of five interwoven "proof of
concepts" that explore, extract, and expose previously untapped
capacities embedded deep within networks and their stacks, at Layers 2
through 4. The five -- scanrand, minewt, lc ( linkcat ), paratrace,
and the OpenQVIS cross-disciplinary-a-go-go phentropy -- demonstrate
Stateless TCP Scanning, Inverse SYN Cookies, Guerrila Multicast,
Parasitic Tracerouting, Ethernet Trailer Cryptography, and quite a bit
more. (For details, stop by DoxPara Research or check out the latest
slides. The academic paper is coming "soon".) In terms of actual
usefulness, scanrand is no nmap, but it's still interesting: During an
authorized test inside a multinational corporation's class B, scanrand
detected 8300 web servers across 65,536 addresses. Time elapsed:
approximately 4 seconds."
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