LOC summer newsletter. There are three new exhibits available both at the Library and online: Creating the United States, Exploring the Early Americas and Thomas Jefferson’s Library and much more.

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Brilliant. Use the attraction of social networking sites to get ³at risk² kids who do not have computers at home into cybercafes and off of the streets­ as a gang prevention approach. And then expand the activities to help these kids focus on a high tech career.

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM's first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC's operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs?

by Michael S. Hart Founder, 1971 Project Gutenberg Inventor of eBooks - It's all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to "Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias," that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at a price that could easily buy you a decent used car.

A thinking, remembering, decision-making, biologically accurate brain built from a supercomputer. Totally biologically accurate the processing core of a machine can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts.

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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 29 November 2007—Lawsuits have been dismissed and issues surrounding distribution of eAudiobooks have been resolved, according to Recorded Books and NetLibrary, the parties involved.

Educational CyberPlayGround - Technology. 1934 Paul Otlet invented hypertext, multi-media, and the web. He didn't use these words of course. He called it the International Network for Universal Documentation. In his 1934 "Treatise of Documentation"

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

Find out how to contact online librarians and get help for free. See if your library is online and participates. It's better than Google!!! Youth Vs. Adults in Gadget Wars

The Metasploit Project announced today the free, world-wide availability of version 3.1 of their exploit development and attack framework. The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits. "Metasploit 3.1 consolidates a year of research and development, integrating ideas and code from some of the sharpest and most innovative folks in the security research community" said H D Moore, project manager. Moore is referring the numerous research projects that have lent code to the framework.

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MPAA has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

We put up an analysis of the 700 MHz auction that starts today, trying to give our readers an idea of what's at stake, and what to expect.

The Military Industrial Educational Complex - Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

XO laptop, Give 1 Get 1, G1G1, One Laptop per child - Critics of the rollout have two key concerns.

Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's perspective.

Kudos to the NJEA Review Web widgets increase student engagement. W00t word and the language it comes from. Clustering Search Engines, K-12 Science. Sears exposes customer information via its web site. National Archives of Ireland 1911 Census. XO 1LPC, G1G1 Negreponte and Intel part ways. IWWIW Turn off the TV. Kids virtual worlds.

In October, Mr. Snyder was inducted into the National Security Agency-Central Security Service hall of honor for his work, which began in 1936 with the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service.

TIP: USE SCROOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY. Stop using Google directly.

How hard it was to destroy data? If you don't know how to do it then smash it into oblivion.

XO Laptop My Experience & Disappointments

amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!

Understand Rootkit and why Sony is a Cracker.