Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind

Why do things like this scare me? Oh, that’s right… it’s the whole invasion of privacy thing!

Original story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

“MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that predict whether you mean harm to your fellow passengers.

It has a series of sensors and imagers that read your body temperature, heart rate and respiration for unconscious tells invisible to the naked eye — signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of an attack.

But this is no polygraph test. Subjects do not get hooked up or strapped down for a careful reading; those sensors do all the work without any actual physical contact. It's like an X-ray for bad intentions.”

Dual Monitors, Now Dual Backgrounds

I found a tool a few months back that I just love… it allows you to display two different pictures on your two monitors (or one huge picture). Best of all it links into photo sharing services to support your viewing photos not on your local machine.

The app is called John’s Background Switcher (no relation to me).

I really LOVE it on my home office setup in conjunction with this cool tool from those brainiacs at MS Research, AutoCollage (license key valid on five machines).

I create collages of our adventures and set the size to the maximum resolution of my current environment (which AutoCollage detects). This ends up being the full width height of my dual 24” setup.

Here’s an example:

I then setup John’s Background Switcher to rotate through the adventure collages once a day… a nice little collection of photos to view all the time around my working windows.

Interesting Consumer How-to Video Style

I came across this video today and it’s a pretty darn interesting way to communicate complex ideas…

Simple style, easy to understand, friendly…

Checking out www.getsatisfaction.com for product feedback. Interesting how many companies / products are listed.

I see Windows Mobile, but no feedback or questions yet.

Something to RSS no doubt... http://ping.fm/DuMay

Trying out Ping.fm.

You gotta like the idea of one holla out to your friends... and it spreads to twitter, facebook, myspace, etc.

Urban Forest Restoration – West Duwamish Greenbelt

We got our team together and joined The Nature Consortium in an effort to rid a small section of this beautiful forest of infesting weeds (think blackberry picking, digging and general eradication all day).

Good Times!

This was all part of the Microsoft Day of Caring, a full day where Microsoft employees volunteer in partnership with community groups (e.g. United Way).

Here’s an Animoto video montage…

or the pictures themselves on Picasa…