Blackhacker

Anyone who has a site that displays the TTLB Ecosystem status, or has visited one, knows that when TTLB slows down, every one slows down. This is a handy plugin I found on the WP-Plugin database that caches your status daily to a file. It both alliviates stress on TTLB and bullet proofs your site when TTLB is having a “growing pain.”

Found this cool piece of Trek tech via slashdot. A cloaking device !!!!

The idea of a cloak of invisibility that hides objects from view has long been confined to the more improbable reaches of science fiction. But electronic engineers have now come up with a way to make one.

…the invisibility shield proposed by Alù and Engheta in a preprint on arXiv1 is more ambitious than this. It is a self-contained structure that would reduce visibility from all viewing angles. In that sense it would be more like the shielding used by the Romulans in the Star Trek episode “Balance of Terror” in 1966, which hid their spaceships at the push of a button.

Pendry warns, however, that the concept as it stands is “no magic cloak”, because it would have to be delicately tuned to suit each different object it hides. Perhaps even more of a drawback, he points out, is the fact that a particular shield only works for one specific wavelength of light.

An object might be made invisible in red light, say, but not in multi wavelength daylight.

And crucially, the effect only works when the wavelength of the light being scattered is roughly the same size as the object. So shielding from visible light would be possible only for microscopic objects; larger ones could be hidden only to long-wavelength radiation such as microwaves. This means that the technology could not be used to hide people or vehicles from human vision.

…but this might work as radar or microwave cloak, becoming the ultimate weapon against speed traps.
hmmmm Doing 120 down I295 and no worries ….

dap: /.

I have been hibernating but I got blog this from the NYTimes.(reg required)

In Secretly Taped Conversations, Glimpses of the Future President
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

Published: February 20, 2005

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 - As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped some of their private conversations, creating a rare record of the future president as a politician and a personality.

In the last several weeks, that friend, Doug Wead, an author and former aide to Mr. Bush’s father, disclosed the tapes’ existence to a reporter and played about a dozen of them.

OK this is really not a big issue. Being that he was a known under achieving, alcoholic frat boy, it is a for gone conclusion that W did a little doobie. The “duck and cover” only gives legs to a controversy that doesn’t REALLY exist. In fact I would have most missed it except for the fact that I head about this while listening to AirAmerica today.

Trio of Papers Pull Today’s ‘Boondocks’ Referring to Bush and Drugs

By Dave Astor

Published: February 28, 2005 5:10 PM ET

NEW YORK At least three of the approximately 300 “Boondocks” clients dropped today’s strip mentioning President Bush’s alleged former drug use.

.. because of following that ran yesterday..

Just so you know. The part of about the “coke” is probably just punch line.

Lastly, I must say this ….. At least Clinton didn’t inhale .

HA ! I kill me!