Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Public vs. Private Snippets


The Fourth Amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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PBS - NOVA - The Spy Factory
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/

Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism.
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PBS - Frontline - Spying On The Home Front
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/

9/11 indelibly altered America in ways that some now fear have put the government's counterterrorist strategies of domestic surveillance and data mining on a collision course with the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and its protection of our civil liberties. - Hedrick Smith




Sunday, January 25, 2009

Visual Thesaurus

The concept of a thesaurus visually displaying "Nodes and Associations" is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3VveWzJBI

This model could also be applied to other topics.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Free Mind

What a beautiful thing, a mind free to roam the fields of discovery. How terrible still, a man trapped by the darkness of dogma.