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10 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year – 2010 : This looks fascinating, worth some exploration.

Schneier on Security: Full Body Scanners: What's Next? : "The truth is that exactly two things have made air travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing cockpit doors and convincing passengers they need to fight back. The TSA should continue to screen checked luggage. They should start screening airport workers. And then they should return airport security to pre-9/11 levels and let the rest of their budget be used for better purposes. Investigation and intelligence is how we're going to prevent terrorism, on airplanes and elsewhere. It's how we caught the liquid bombers. It's how we found the Yemeni printer-cartridge bombs. And it's our best chance at stopping the next serious plot." Yes, normal people agree with this too!

FoxNews.com - Mystery Surrounds Cyber Missile That Crippled Iran's Nuclear Weapons Ambitions : I like the summation provided by this article too. via dilbert .

I read it, generally I liked it. The mystery behind how the three main characters and time-periods relate (and the therefore the wrap up) was not too surprising from a general knowledge of the many-worlds hypothesis of quantum mechanics. Brasyl on Amazon .

So here's the weekend bike ride: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=4145074 10 miles in under an hour. But some people can run that fast? The map site shows what can be done with google maps api....

Here's the Battle Branch Trail green space: View Battle Branch in a larger map

Make: Online : OpenStreetMap: The Maker's Map : Just found another connection to OpenStreetMap, Gmaps Pedometer , which has the 'OSM' overlay. My office mate maps his bike rides on it. OSM is pretty amazing already - it shows the houses in my neighborhood with accurate sizes and positions. And here's a cycle-centric view, OpenCycleMap . This is fun.