Thursday, August 4, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, August 4, 2011)
(1)- WINNING -- The NYTimes has taken a do-or-die stand for hard-core, boots-on-the-ground journalism, for earnest civic purpose, for the primacy of content creators over aggregators, and has brought itself back from the precipice. A report:

(2)- WORTH A HARD LOOK – Here is an extraordinary rotating video examination of the flight deack detail within the Space Shuttle Discovery. The shuttle was operational from its maiden flight in August of 1984, until its final landing on March 9, 2011.

(3)- MACHU PICCHU -- Machu Picchu was found by an American historian, and this weekend many are celebrating the centennial of the "discovery" of the cloud city high in the Andes — one of the most remarkable archeological sites on the planet.

(4)- HOW ARE WE GOVERNED? -- ... in a system that makes cooperation almost impossible and incivility nearly inevitable, a system in which the campaign season never ends and the struggle for party advantage trumps all other considerations.

(5)- VOLCANIC PAYOFF -- Iceland's volcanoes gained notoriety last year for their ash-spewing ability to ground airlines and make a mess. But they also pay their dues, drawing tourists eager to see the source of the chaos and needed money.

(6)- RATHER ODD -- This is the next super-yacht set to hit the world's oceans - which comes complete with floating tropical islands. The 295ft ship boasts a towering volcano with a cascading waterfall that feeds a giant swimming pool.

(7)- A LOOK AT RIVER FLEET – Here is London’s largest subterranean river. Forced underground by the city’s burgeoning populace the river still flows from its source to its mouth where it joins London’s main waterway, the Thames.

(8)- HISTORY -- Long before drug cartels, crack wars and TV shows about addiction, cocaine was promoted as a wonder drug, sold as a cure-all and praised by some of the greatest minds in medical history, including Sigmund Freud...

(9)- CYBER WAR DETAILS -- Two primary weapons in a cyber warrior’s arsenal are botnets and exploits. A botnet is a collection of tens or hundreds of thousands of computers that have been commandeered without their owners’ knowledge. Exploits ...

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