Thursday 12/27/2007 – 8:25 pm
Airport Security Study (Schneier on Security)
Security guru Bruce Schneier once again exposes current TSA screening practices as security theater. While a certain amount of security theater is necessary, it seems that TSA is focusing on confiscating prohibited items rather than preventing attacks.
(tags:
security
travel
airport
)
Wednesday 12/26/2007 – 8:20 pm
Software That Converts Sketches into Interactive Mechanical Systems (TechEBlog)
From MIT, a sketch interface that results in models of simple mechanical systems. Reminiscent of Crayon Physics at kloonigames.com/crayon/ and Chalk at http://www.konjak.org/chalk.htm.
(tags:
software
interface
physics
sketch
)