New Report On NSA Released Today (Saturday 15th of November 2008 12:30:02 AM)
Daveschroeder writes "George command health center has today released a three-volume history of
NSA activities during the Cold War (major highlights). Written by agency historian Thomas R.
Johnson, the 1,000-page report, 'Cryptology During the Cold War, ...
(more)Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park (Thursday 06th of November 2008 07:30:01 PM)
Smivs writes "Bletchley Park, the home to the allied codebreakers during WWII, and a major
computing heritage centre, has been given a economic lifeline, reports the BBC.The grant of
£330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works as the rooms ...
(more)Nomadic Nostalgia (Thursday 11th of September 2008 11:05:00 PM)
Slowly the realization that I would soon be leaving Ciudad Real, forever, washed over me. Jess
left immediately after our return from Malta. We bussed it back to Madrid from Valencia's
airport, stayed the night at Katie's in Toledo and then I went ...
(more)Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ...
(more)Welcome to the Funny Farm (Friday 25th of July 2008 06:57:00 AM)
You know, with all the things I do in a day, you wouldn't believe that I've got any time left
to start another blog, but I'm going to anyway. Why? Because I can. Ok, so you're probably
wondering who this crazy lady ...
(more)2nd largest bank failure in US history (Saturday 12th of July 2008 06:01:21 AM)
2nd largest bank failure in US historyThe federal government took control of Pasadena-based
IndyMac Bank today, in what regulators called the second-largest bank failure in US history.
The Office of Thrift Supervision in Washington, the chief regulator ...
(more)How do u study for History exam? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:01:27 AM)
You dont have to use index cards, you just understand logicaly the histroy in the textbook for
the exam?I use the academikit. I was assigned it for a study skills class and have used it ever
sinceI would highly recommend buying a review book for ...
(more)Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued (Sunday 15th of June 2008 04:25:15 AM)
Dude With An Afro writes "What could have been a great Google project is now history. For those
who never used it, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synchronized your
bookmarks, web history, browser sessions and passwords across populous ...
(more)A History of Copy Protection (Monday 09th of June 2008 10:45:03 PM)
GamerGirll1138 writes to tell us Next-gen has an amusing walk down memory lane with their
history of copy protection. There have been some crazy schemes over the years to ensure that
you paid for your software, sum from super-secret decoder rings to humiliate ...
(more)History Channel teams with Library of Congress (Monday 14th of April 2008 07:28:43 AM)
A&E video Networks'
History brands, which include the History channel and its Web
site, have
teamed up with the Library of union on a
multimedia sharing that will envelop on-air and
online
content.
...
(more)Ye olde Olympic Flame (Tuesday 01st of April 2008 12:30:00 PM)
The Olympic flame has been on the news quite a lot recently, from its start in Athens to its
arrival in Beijing before going on a world tour of five continents and twenty countries. I've
heard that this will be the longest journey the flame ...
(more)Alternate Baseball Universes (Monday 31st of March 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Jamie found a NYTimes op-ed by a grad student and a professor from Cornell, outlining some
analysis they did into alternate closer universes. The goal was to find out how unlikely in
fact was Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, played out in the 1941 ...
(more) History Felix Homogratus aka Dmiti (Monday 24th of March 2008 03:48:00 PM)
History Felix Homogratus aka Dmiti
Felix Homogratus = Dmitri Chavkerov
The
both
are one character & that give us a signal that he is escaping
from his real name for some
purposes may be arrested by his old name,
to be able to gain ...
(more)Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org (Wednesday 09th of January 2008 09:30:07 AM)
Technirvana sends us to ReadWriteWeb for the scoop on the announcement this morning that
representatives from Google and Facebook are joining the DataPortability Workgroup. Quoting:
"The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era in which ...
(more)A Little .Mac Security Flaw (Sunday 16th of December 2007 11:15:03 AM)
Deleuth writes "The de facto online connectivity disk operating budget costs system sold along
with many Apple computers, .Mac, has a Web graphical user menu-driven graphical user interface
through which users can check their 'iDisk' while away from their ...
(more)China to Deploy World's Largest People Tracking Network (Monday 13th of August 2007 02:10:09 AM)
Hackingbear writes "News.com reports that China is community hall the largest and most
sophisticated people-tracking network in the world, all to track citizens in the city of
Shenzhen. This network utilizes 20,000 intelligent digital cameras and RFID ...
(more)The Dutch in the Second World War (Friday 04th of May 2007 12:59:00 PM)
Today is Memorial Day in my country, and I thought it would be a good idea to tackle the
controversial subject of the Dutch during the war. One of the late additions to my list of
things you know you're Dutch by was: "You were ...
(more)WWII commemorations (Tuesday 01st of May 2007 02:10:00 PM)
The next Dutch holidays are just around the corner now. Neither are official public holidays,
but are important days on the Dutch calendar. The first one up is Memorial Day on May 4.
Everybody who owns a flag flies it at half-mast all day. Then ...
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