This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about vampire plants, spider oaks, and ultrasonic potatoes.

No radiation gets in, only creepy vibes get out.

Lauren’s latest project now published: Raspberry Pi powered juggling performance
Gunnar loves pajamas, especially these
HT Matt Micene: Ultrasonic everything
Gunnar removes chips, water, and plants from the Faraday cage in his basement: Researchers reconstruct human speech by recording a potato chip bag
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
Bad Bio: Evil Talking Plants Use DNA Communication
Open source mind control: A new brain-computer interface lets DIYers access their brain waves
Yahoo to provide PGP encryption for mail

Almost related: AOL still has 2.3 million dialup subscribers


SpiderOak Implements A Warrant Canary
Google Says Website Encryption – Or Lack Thereof – Will Now Influence Search Rankings
In-Q-Tel CISO Dan Geer: Security expert calls home routers a clear and present danger
More from Dan Geer: CIA’s venture firm security chief: US should buy zero-days, reveal them
Good news/bad news for Shawn Wells: Ohio Turnpike says sponsorships, ads OK, but not naming rights to tollway
Formal ALUG Meeting: Controlling juggling pins with Raspberry Pi – Lauren Egts on September 4
Try the tel:// hack yourself by clicking here to call Red Hat’s 800 number and buy something

Cutting Room Floor

Google Mesa is crazytown

From O’Reilly Radar’s Four short links: “Paper by Googlers on the database holding G’s ad data. Trillions of rows, petabytes of data, point queries with 99th percentile latency in the hundreds of milliseconds and overall query throughput of trillions of rows fetched per day, continuous updates on the order of millions of rows updated per second, strong consistency and repeatable query results even if a query involves multiple datacenters, and no SPOF. (via Greg Linden)”




We Give Thanks

Matt Micene for making us more paranoid
Mr Porter for the thumbnail on this post.

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