] The Mac BitTorrent client with a live 3D view of your swarm

Neat!

Bits on Wheels

] A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a
] soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there's a
] big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other
] networks don't want to air the ad.

Landmines would make football more interesting as well. I think CNN should ride the wave here.

Boing Boing: U.N. landmine commerical won't air in US.

] LGL is a compendium of applications for making the
] visualization of large networks and trees tractable. LGL
] was specifically motivated by the need to make the
] visualization and exploration of large biological
] networks more accessible. Essentially the network is a
] graph, which is the data that you define, and LGL is
] responsible for showing it to you.

Soon to be played with...

Large Graph Layout (LGL) - Beyond Graphviz

] SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a
] simplified version. The real thing.

All your digital signatures are belong to us.

You have no chance to survive make new keys.

(well, not really new keys, but you get the drift)

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken

] A leading security company is exploring technology for
] verifying whether a user is a child or an adult by
] analyzing a bone in a person's finger.

CNN.com - Biometric device can verify age - Feb 10, 2005

Google Maps is extremely cool. Great interface. The maps are very good, however they are missing a few things, such as the direction of one way streets. It also does not support Safari yet.

Google Maps

Chopper, sic balls!!

Pet's Mobility - Moble phones for dogs

] This is the homepage of the Shape Contexts based approach
] to break Gimpy, the CAPTCHA test used at Yahoo! to screen
] out bots. Our method can successfully pass that test 92%
] of the time. See EZ-Gimpy in action at Yahoo! The
] approach we take uses general purpose algorithms that
] have been designed for generic object recognition. The
] same basic ideas have been applied to finding people in
] images, matching handwritten digits, and recognizing 3D
] objects.

Coming soon, turing tests and background checks.

Breaking a Visual CAPTCHA

] The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with
] machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.
]
] Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and
] operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this
] spring, the Associated Press reports.

] Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer
] screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit
] with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality
] goggles.

BBC NEWS | US plans to deploy 'robot troops' in Iraq

] According to the DREAD Advantages Sheet, "unlike
] conventional weapons that deliver a bullet to the target
] in intervals of about 180 feet, the DREAD's rounds will
] arrive only 30 thousandths of an inch apart (1/32nd of an
] inch apart), thereby presenting substantially more mass
] to the target in much less time than previously
] possible." This mass can be delivered to the target in
] 10-round bursts, or the DREAD can be programmed to
] deliver as many rounds as you want, per trigger-pull. Of
] course, the operator can just as easily set the DREAD to
] fire on full-auto, with no burst limiter. On that
] setting, the number of projectiles sent down range per
] trigger-pull will rely on the operator's trigger
] control. Even then, every round is still going right into
] the target. You see, the DREAD's not just accurate, it's
] also recoilless. No recoil. None. So, every "fired" round
] is going right where you aim it.

According to this, it can basically fire a column of steel, at a operator defined length.

Defense Review - World Exclusive Video! DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent.