I want to move the phone line in my apartment to the Black/Yellow pair, leaving all my phones on the Red/Green pair, and then put this in the middle. Then I want to setup a database where all my friends (who do the same thing) can publish their phone numbers along with their IP addresses. When I pick up my phone the dial tone will come from my computer. I dial a number, and it does a lookup on the database, and if the number is in the database it routes my call over the internet, otherwise it uses pots... All the voip, no monthly fee. Hellz Yeah!

Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX

But don't panic.

Raise your little finger to your lips and repeat after me: "$44 Trillion Dollars"

Now follow this link, and click on the "endorsements" link, and look at the credentials of the people listed there. Recognize any names?

"It is the dawning of the age of aquarius, the age of aquarius... aquarius!!!"

The Coming Generational Storm

]
] VeriSign plans to unveil on Wednesday a digital identity
] program for school-age children, which it says will
] bolster online safety for the growing number of young Web
] surfers.

Odd...

VeriSign works to ID kid surfers

] The content available online is much less important than
] the manner in which it is delivered, indeed, the way the
] Web is structured. Its influence is structural rather
] than informational, and its structure is agnostic. For
] that reason, parental controls of the sort that AOL can
] offer gives no comfort to conservatives. It's not that
] Johnny will Google "hardcore" or "T&A" rather than
] "family values;" rather, it's that Johnny will come to
] think, consciously or not, of everything he reads as
] linked, associative and contingent. He will be
] disinclined to accept the authority of any text, whether
] religious, political or artistic, since he has learned
] that there is no such thing as the last word, or indeed
] even a series of words that do not link, in some way, to
] some other text or game. For those who grow up reading
] online, reading will come to seem a game, one that
] endlessly plays out in unlimited directions. The web, in
] providing link after associative link, commentary upon
] every picture and paragraph, allows, indeed requires,
] users to engage in a postmodernist inquiry.

The media is the message.

CTHEORY.NET : Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie

This is a gallery of different images of human social networks.

Gallery of network images

] This weeks illustration was originally slated for the
] cover of this months Popular Science Magazine but it got
] bumped to the interior... too bad... would have loved to
] have seen it in full on cover goodness. DARPA (R&D of
] Defense department, if you didn't already know that) is
] putting together a race of autonomous (robotic) vehicles
] that runs from LA to Las Vegas. Completely remote, no one
] at the wheel. They are recruiting people (these guys are
] serious robot geeks who build and tinker with this stuff
] as a hobby and obsession) to build their own vehicles to
] participate in the race. The vehicles range from
] motorcycles to HumVees. The point of this story is to
] illustrate DARPA's interest in this technology, and that
] they hope to have autonomous vehicles waging war by 2015.
] Mark Pauline eat your heart out. ;-)

Some very interesting images and thoughts here. Its really stupid that this website doesn't offer article specific links instead of one link that changes every week. This might be gone when you see it.

Image of the week: DARPA Terminators

A female Samurai who dresses only in black and admires Hillary Clinton is running for president in Russia next month.

A Samurai Fighter, Clad in Jeans, Takes On Putin

] "We're working very hard to educate the voters, to build
] the comfort level and to get rid of some of the myths out
] there," Hood said. "I think these things are raised for
] political purposes and distractions. Any effort to
] undermine that public confidence is a tactic that is
] wrong and I believe it weakens our democracy by causing
] voters to doubt if their vote has been counted."

The more elections commissions managers claim that its not important to think critically about this the more likely I think it is that they are hiding more then the fact that they spent tax payer dollars on vulnerable equipment.

AP Wire | 02/12/2004 | State: Touchscreen ballots don't have to be recounted

] CrossID, an Israeli startup founded by two engineers
] formerly at the telecommunications equipment provider RAD
] Group, has developed an innovative, chipless RFID system
] that can protect sensitive documents, such as
] intelligence agency reports, financial securities and
] banknotes. The technology could also be used to create a
] "hands-free" bar code.

If I was VC I'd buy. This is a solid idea. It'll get traction.

RFID Journal - Firewall Protection for Paper Documents

] When scientists learned last month that the word
] "evolution" had been removed from Georgia's proposed
] science curriculum for middle and high schools, some
] wondered what else might have been deleted.
]  
] Some feared that the big-bang theory the dominant
] scientific theory about the origins of the universe
] would be absent.
]  
] Their fears were well founded.

I've heard they made some interested edits to the history curriculum as well...

GA Classroom curriculum stupidity goes beyond evolution