Here are some not terribly well-organized web pages that you should look at. We can use these for discussion purposes during the course. Of course, this table will be added to and modified over time.
| Web site | Description |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | The website of an organization that supports on-line and technological freedoms. |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | Website of the American branch of this organization. |
| U.S. Copyright Office | Official government website |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Official government website |
| Boinc | A site which allows you to participate in scientific projects using screen savers. |
| Web site | Description |
| Future Tense | National Public Radio program about computers and related technology |
| On the Media | A Public Radio program about media related issues |
| PC World | A leading industry publication |
| Web site | Description |
| APPLE's patent of touch screen technology | An article in PC WORLD discussing APPLE's attempt to patent touch screens. Are law suits coming? |
| Congress and net neutrality | The net neutrality provisions in the stimulus package. |
| Cell Phone predator law | A proposal for a cell phone (camera) predator law in the US. |
| DTV delay | Congress delays the roll-out of DTV |
| Masal Bugduv | Is Masal Bugduv the 30th best soccer player in Europe? |
| Cello Scrotum | OK, just what is cello scrotum? |
| Busted | Marijuana fields on Google Earth |
| Mars Rover | So why the lapse of memory? |
| Open Source | It's good for you and its good for the Feds. |
| Verizon | Guess who's getting stimulus money? |
| Power sucking flat-screens | The Governator wants to combat flat-screen tvs. |
| Health care over the web | Tennessee want to deliver health care over the web. |
| Web site | Description |
| Cyber Warfare | No, this is not science fiction. From Wikipedia. |
| More on Cyber Warfare | A paper on Cyber Warfare from the RAND Corporation, so you know it has to be real. |
| Take that, Hamas | Israeli students make it easy to attack Hamas websites. |
| IASIW | Institute for Advanced Studies on Information Warfare website. Who are these people? |
| Ah, DARPA! | Plans for the future. |
| Combating Cyber Warfare | Just so you know. |
| A conundrum | Is Cyber war really war? I mean, they're just bits and bytes, right? |
| Georgia | Wasn't just tanks in that war. |
| Estonia | We don't need no stinkin' tanks. |
| Our guys | OK, so define 'Cyber warfare' quite broadly but here's a list of our security system's websites. |
There are some things that are that should never be. This is the story, in links, of one of them: the Egg Cuber, a device for taking cubical softboiled eggs.
| Web site | Description |
| An instructional video | How to use your egg cuber. |
| Yet another egg cuber video | This one is much more detailed than the one above. Apparently for first time users. |
| Pictures | The egg cuber on Flickr. |
| As seen on Rachel Ray (hopefully this means 'on her show'). | A place to buy an egg cuber. |
| The egg cuber has friends | Who thinks of these things? |
| A blog entry about the egg cuber | From the Food Museum. There has to be a Food Museum. The world couldn't let that go. |
| A non-water-based hard-boiled egg maker | Not about the egg cuber but this site was reached from an egg cuber site. |
| Some problems with the egg cuber | A blog-like page, complete with tooth-whitening ads. |
| An egg video | Not about the egg cuber per se but about the strange things people have done with eggs (a sofa?). |
| Sr. Tanner and the egg cuber | A personal reminiscence of the egg cuber in use by someone other than Sr. Tanner. |
Scientists are really thankful that computers were invented. It makes
new forms of research possible and old forms of research much easier.
Here is a sampling of some of the latest in the relation between
science and computers.
| Web site | Description |
| University of Salford Acoustic Research Centre | Serious research into the sounds that Woopie Cushions make. Log on and help them with their studies. This is serious stuff. |
| Our adventure starts here | A great source of essential intellectual property, this site is as protected from copyright violators as any great literature. |
| Of course, there's a video on Twitter. | What else is computer technology for? |
| Getting richer when you call. | Copyright law is about controlling your intellectual property so you, and not someone else, can get rich. Christmas presents for the person who has everything? |
| How dare you! | Of course you can sue for violations of your intellectual property rights. All God's children can sue. What do you think this is all about? |
| It's about redress of grievances. | That and world domination. While we are talking about 'redress', somebody should talk to the guy on the webpage. |
| Shocking! | Note that the word is not 'embarrassing'. It couldn't be... |
| A study in entrepreneurship | Remember your marketing courses? This is why you took them. |