Random links
- Out of Prison? For Some, That Might Mean Out of Luck
- They now have DNA evidence linking another man to the crime and that man also confessed to committing the crime alone. As the others convicted with him were still in jail they were pardoned, but as this guy was no longer in jail due to having been convicted of a lesser crime he was not pardoned and thus, e.g., can't adopt his stepson, attend his children's school events, get work, or travel internationally. "Surely federal habeas law should not be understood to establish a Kafkaesque regime in which a wrongfully convicted and actually innocent person may challenge continuing burdensome registration requirements only by committing a new crime that will return him to prison"
- The Secret World of 'Garbagemen'
- "Sanitation workers, it turns out, have twice the fatality rates of police offers, and nearly seven times the fatality rates of firefighters."
- Google Glass Early Adopters Want To Build Learning, Healthcare, Accessibility & Safety Apps
- A list of some of the ideas as to what people want to do with Google Glass.
- Autonomous robot jellyfish being developed for military surveillance
- "The task is to figure out how a jellyfish functions, and then apply it to a robotic version that could be launched and left to function in the ocean for anything from a few weeks to months and even years. ... There’s still a lot of work to do on the design, though. Allowing the jellyfish to remain autonomous means the 4 hours it currently gets from an on-board nickel metal hydride battery needs to be improved drastically."