University of Wisconsin Oshkosh professor Sue Fondrie won this year’s bad fiction award.
Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.
Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist announced:
[T]he second was redefined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 energy transitions of the cesium atom…
This change took place in 1967.
Why 60 seconds and minutes but 24 hours? via Kottke.org
Charlie Miller, a respected security researcher, has discovered vulnerabilities in the smart batteries for Apple laptops and mobile devices; he can manipulate their firmware to render them unusable or to cause them to misreport their remaining charge to the OS. The new firmware can survive an OS replacement, leading Miller to speculate that it could be used to store persistent malware that restored itself after the disk was erased and the OS was rewritten.
National Recreation and Parks Month
July 2011
Since this month is dedicated nationwide to showcasing our National Parks and Recreation areas, the Todd Library in turn is dedicating our monthly book display with part of our collection of books and DVDs focusing on our country’s National Parks. Come visit us before starting out on your dream vacation.