News and other tidbits that Chad Cloman finds interesting enough to share
The linked article describes how paper is recycled. The system breaks down the wood fibers slightly, and they can’t be reused after about 6-8 times through the process. Also, there are nasty chemicals involved.
Boy this takes me back. The title for the linked article is a bit inaccurate, since some of the products did actually die. And for several of them, only the naming rights have survived.
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/…
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From the article:
With King shot just the day before in Memphis, Elliott encouraged her third-graders to discuss how something so horrible could happen.
“I finally said, ‘Do you kids have any idea how it feels to be something other than white in this country?’”
The children shook their heads and said they wanted to learn, so Elliott set the rules. Blue-eyed children must use a cup to drink from the fountain. Blue-eyed children must leave late to lunch and to recess. Blue-eyed children were not to speak to brown-eyed children. Blue-eyed children were troublemakers and slow learners.
Within 15 minutes, Elliott says, she observed her brown-eyed students morph into youthful supremacists and blue-eyed children become uncertain and intimidated.
Brown-eyed children “became domineering and arrogant and judgmental and cool,” she says. “And smart! Smart! All of a sudden, disabled readers were reading. I thought, ‘This is not possible, this is my imagination.’ And I watched bright, blue-eyed kids become stupid and frightened and frustrated and angry and resentful and distrustful. It was absolutely the strangest thing I’d ever experienced.”
Link: http://www.latimes.com/…
(via Neatorama)
You’re a hacker who wants to break into a large web forum, steal their user data, and destroy their database. The site is using the latest software patches and has a large array of security features to prevent unauthorized intrusion. What do you do? Simple, hack into their off-site backup, which is not nearly as secure but still contains their database login credentials.
