People yearning for immortality often tell themselves fictions about how they will survive death. I have started a project to record such fictions in the form of a documentary.

I'm still working on it, but here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbJcDiLLxU&feature=plcp

H. Warner Munn's "Merlin's Ring", "Merlin's Godson" and especially "The Ship from Atlantis."

Rare, but a worthwhile read, especially the relationship between Gwalchmai and the orichalcum ship of living metal, imbued with the spirit of an ancient Atlantean sorceress.

And you didn't bother to call him out on his misuse of the word "illicit" when he meant "elicit?" :-)

Real world experience? I found this tool was excellent as a collaboration tool for software development and project management. It's great for tracking changes, and documenting implementation details.

I for one, and many of my colleagues will be sad to see Google Wave pass on.

Perhaps this is a type of Slashdot effect? People who want to support them have overwhelmed their sales capability...

I was all ready to buy, but their online store claims to be out of stock.

Live traffic updates are also one-way. Your GPS system has additional functions which depend either on GSM (as used by GPS-based tracking systems) or simple radio receivers tuned to RBDS services or a Traffic Message Channel (TMC) on FM or DAB.

Functionally, the GPS technology never transmits -- but a device including GPS functionality might also include other technologies to transmit information.

I can't moderate this as Funny, as I suspect you're not joking. GPS is indeed receive only. Triangulation is based on timing differences with clock signals, and not an outgoing signal.

I want to add myself to the list of fans of this admirable place....

Here's a set of photos of the St. Louis Museum I took earlier this year.

The experience of climbing the spiral staircase, while listening to live music from the massive pipe organ was almost surreal...

Coffee? Clearly you want the Pomegranate.

This phone already exists. At least, the following web page suggests very strongly that it exists, but YMMV...

http://www.pomegranatephone.com/

Just a small note to all those clever people who are calculating the time taken to perform an exhaustive keyspace search on the potential passwords.

We should distinguish between the MAXIMUM time taken to exhaust the symbol space, versus the AVERAGE time.

Assuming uniform distribution of passwords through the space, and a sufficiently large sample of challenges, we would naturally expect the time taken to find the correct password to converge on n/2 -- i.e., half of the maximum time.

Thus, if a symbol space can be exhaustively searched in one year, on average, finding passwords with a similar difficulty level will take an average of 6 months, with a typical normal distribution.

This certainly isn't the first Cyber War attack. I've written about some of these attacks in my blog, http://security-risk.blogspot.com/. Here's an extract:

        * In 2004, Thomas C. Reed, an Air Force secretary in the Reagan administration, wrote that the United States had successfully inserted a software Trojan horse into computing equipment that the Soviet Union had bought from Canadian suppliers. Used to control a Trans-Siberian gas pipeline, the doctored software failed, leading to a spectacular explosion in 1982.

        * Crypto AG, a Swiss maker of cryptographic equipment, was the subject of intense international speculation during the 1980s when, after the Reagan administration took diplomatic actions in Iran and Libya, it was widely reported in the European press that the National Security Agency had access to a hardware back door in the company’s encryption machines that made it possible to read electronic messages transmitted by many governments.

        * According to a former federal prosecutor, who declined to be identified because of his involvement in the operation, during the early ’80s the Justice Department, with the assistance of an American intelligence agency, also modified the hardware of a Digital Equipment Corporation computer to ensure that the machine — being shipped through Canada to Russia — would work erratically and could be disabled remotely.

OK, you mean like Wikitude which has been on my G1 for several months?