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  • 63 Year Old Enigma Message Cracked

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    The M4 Message Breaking Project has just announced breaking a 63 year old encrypted message from German Sub U-623 sent during the height to World War II in November 1942. They accomplished this via a distributed computing project similar to the SETI@home project. Using over 5,000 desktop computers the team was able to work through all of…

  • The Search for Noah’s Ark Continues…

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    I found an interesting article on the “Mt. Ararat Anomaly.” Recent satellite images are providing the best yet views of this area and what may lie beneath the snow and ice. Is it Noah’s Ark? I’m not sure, but the images are very interesting… http://www.space.com/news/060309_ark_update.html

  • Google Mars is Now Available

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    Google Mars up and online. It looks like the resolution is similar to Google Moon. You can find the face on mars but the resolution isn’t tight enough to see it. All in all, it’s a pretty cool tool. Hopefully the imagery will be upgraded in the next 12 months with data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that…

  • Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

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    Have you ever wanted to earn a little extra money on the web? Amazon.com has a solution for you. It’s called Mechanical Turk. It’s a system where people answer simply questions for pennies. The questions range from your favorite books to whether a picture is of a pizza parlor or not. So I know you’re…

  • Microsoft Origami Ultra-Mobile PC

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    So Microsoft just announced a new mobile device at CBIT. The media has been leaking information for the last couple of weeks. Microsoft ran it’s own stealth marketing campaign on www.origamiproject.com. It’s a cross between a Pocket PC, IPod, Win XP Desktop, Tablet PC, and Dish Network’s PocketDish product. The best thing about this announcement…

  • Landscape Management Article on Blogging

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    Just a quick note and link to my recent article on blogging in Landscape Management Magazine. Blogging is the newest way to connect with your employees. InfoTech: Blogging

  • Don’t Recycle, Freecycle

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    By now we all know that we need to recycle, save the world, etc. etc. So if you’re like me, you’ve got one more household chore with very little direct incentive other than an empty recycle bin in the garage. That’s where Freecycle.org comes in. It’s a new social concept being driven by the Internet. Basically it’s a…

  • Human Potential

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    Update 3/6/06: New URL for the video. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 2006/02/23/earlyshow/ main1339324.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories I just got an email that I felt compelled to share. Kirk Weisler is a good friend and an internationally known speaker on company culture. I’ve been a subscriber to his T4D (Thought for the Day) email list for several years and I highly recommend…

  • Ning.com and Corporate (Social) Web Apps

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    So I just ran across www.ning.com. Ning is the latest in social web applications designed to bring people together. But the twist here is that it’s a development platform complete with search, php, built-in tagging and a fully-managed content store (no database setup required). Best of all it free, thanks to Marc Andreessen (the guy…

  • Asterisk, VoIP, and Next Gen IVRs

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    In the last couple of days, I’ve had a couple of people tell me about Asterisk.org. For those of you who are not familiar with the next generation of telephony, it come a long way for big iron Nortel and IntervoiceBrite. Now you’ve got low cost hardware and open source PBX solutions. Asterisk is offering an…