join-the-dots

“Covert Channels for Collusion in Online Computer Games.” (A.K.A. “How to Win an Xbox.”)

“Magicbike is a mobile WiFi (wireless Internet) hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. By turning a common bicycle into a wireless hotspot, Magicbike explores new delivery and use strategies for wireless networks and modern-day urbanites. Wireless bicycles disappear into the urban fabric and bring Internet to yet unserved spaces and communities. Mixing public art with techno-activism, Magicbikes are perfect for setting up adhoc Internet connectivity for art and culture events, emergency access, public demonstrations, and communities on the struggling end of the digital-divide.”

Yes please, I want one!

Test drive an Apple Macintosh SE running System 7.

The first computer I remember my parents owning was an Apple Mac SE (later replaced by an SE/30), so this brings back particularly fond memories for me.

(Via Geoffrey Rockwell.)

Read one page of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks every day—using RSS.

(Via kottke.org.)

Apparently, airships are poised to make a comeback: “A government agency on Monday awarded a $40 million contract to Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors here to design a pilotless airship capable of flying 65,000 feet above the earth to detect and track missiles, aircraft, ships at sea and other objects as part of U.S. homeland security. [...] The high-altitude airship will be 25 times as large as a Goodyear blimp, with 5.2 million cubic feet of gas inside its huge envelope, compared to about 203,000 cubic feet inside the Goodyear envelope.”

In addition to this, “Sanswire Technologies is [...] creating a national wireless broadband network with a re-designed satellite-like, high-altitude airship, the Stratellite. Rather than orbiting like a traditional satellite, a Stratellite is stationed in the stratosphere. At an altitude of 13 miles, the ship can provide a wireless transmitting platform that can see an area of up to 300,000 square miles.” In fact, I believe (though I could be wrong, since I cannot find any information online and am therefore relying entirely on memory) I actually attended a talk about this project at EPSRC’s PREP conference in 2003.

(Thanks to Nick for pointing this out.)