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The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth : How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself

Rachel Pepper

	The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians: Tips and Techniques from Conception to Birth : How to Stay Sane and Care for Yourself
	Published: 01 April, 1999
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	Author: Rachel Pepper

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Gifted Firestarter: High-Tech Pyrotechnics to Kick Off Olympics

Because of Cai Guo-Qiang, the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympic Games is not going to be abstract, hard to decipher and boring. It's actually going to be a blast. Literally. The New York-based, Chinese-born Cai is an installation artist who revels in using explosives (primarily gunpowder) to create violent displays of pyrotechnics, or, as he calls them, "Explosion Works." And because of his considerable talents with both art and fire, he has been commissioned to produce Friday's opening Olympic ceremony. "His shows are on a huge scale," says Melissa Chiu, director of the Museum of the Asia Society and expert on Chinese diaspora artists. The Chinese Olympic committee has dropped some hints about the nature of the opening ceremony. But if Cai's past works are any indication, we can expect to see an elaborate display that combines fireworks and gunpowder along with a thick helping of technology. Cai first exploded into the art scene with a 1993 show at the Great Wall of China. Starting at the western end of the barrier, Cai layered gunpowder along the ground and then set them it in a domino-like succession. The result was a partition of thick smoke that made it appear as if the Great Wall itself extended an extra six miles into the Gobi Desert. <div class="youtubevideoright"> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JmKGAIKSASc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JmKGAIKSASc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> </div> His follow-up works have been equally ambitious and even more tech-heavy. For the 2005 Festival of China event at the Kennedy Center, he teamed up with fireworks guru Phil Grucci to create a 500-foot-high, 150-foot-wide tornado of fire over Washington, D.C. In order to pull this feat off (and not burn any nearby structures down) Cai turned to silicon for an assist. First sketching out his concept on pencil and paper, Cai then uploaded it to computer-aided design (CAD) software in order to model a digital rendering of the flaming twister. Then using special firework shells (invented by Grucci's company) embedded with computer chips, Cai was able to detonate each charge at precisely the time he wanted, igniting a swirling column into what he deemed "Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China." Now Cai and Grucci are partnering again for the opening ceremonies in Beijing. And it might just prove to be the best part of the entire games -- certainly more exciting than sitting through four hours of Olympic racewalking. But what the show will actually consist of is still a complete mystery. Some early videos of the rehearsals for the opener have popped up online, but it remains to be seen if this is a taste of what we'll see or just an elaborate head-fake. "I think it will be very simple but profound. 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Gear Gallery: Shrinking Computers, DVR Expander and iPhone Competitors

<img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/MSI_laptop_t.jpg'></img>: Most of the new mini-laptops look like toys, educational tools or lab experiments in miniaturization, but the MSI Wind is an actual PC. Packing the latest 1.6-GHz Atom processor and a roomy 80-GB drive, the Wind boasts some legit PC cred. Yes, your iPod probably has more drive space, but 80 gigs was plenty not so long ago, and it's not like you're going to be producing HD video on this thing; it's more of an internet lapdog than a laptop. The 10-inch widescreen can display most fixed-width webpages comfortably, and its keyboard is large enough to house decent-size keys so you can type easily without resorting to Homer's dialing wand. While even some larger laptops are short on ports, the Wind finds room for three USBs, an SD slot and a display connector (take note, MacBook Air!). Of course, it's not perfect. We would have loved to see a DVD burner included, and with all its ports, a mini FireWire would be welcome. Also, don't expect high-end performance from the unit or hearty battery life from its slim, three-cell battery. But if you want a cheap and tiny companion for uploading pictures during a Malaysian jungle trek, or just a little buddy to hang out with you on the couch for IMDB searches, it's pretty hard to be against the Wind. WIRED: Grown-up looks (as opposed to "I want to sit at the big kids' table" found in other netbooks). Full keyboard and the largest screen among mini-notes. Plenty of ports to plug away at. 2.3-pound weight and rounded edges make it simple to pack and lug. TIRED: Lack of a DVD is understandable, but it still makes us cry a little. Hard drive sometimes makes mysterious swallowing sounds. Two-hour battery life is OK, but three would be better. $500, <a href="http://www.msimobile.com">MSI Mobile</a> <img src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles8.gif" alt="8 out of 10"> Photo: Jon Snyder/ Wired.com Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/review-msis-nap.html">MSI Wind U100 review</a>. Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/eee_box_t.jpg'></img>: Behold, the new Eee Box! Like the rest of the Eee bloodline, these varicolored desktop boxes are small, cheap and adorable (think AppleTV or Mac Mini). Intel's 1.6-GHz Atom processor, up to 2 GBs of memory, four USB ports, an SD card slot, 802.11n and Bluetooth are plenty for the Eee Box to hit that elusive "good enough" mark with aplomb. Once again, you'll get your choice of running either Linux or Windows XP. Then there's the size. While it does have a slightly larger overall footprint, it's much trimmer than the Mac Mini. Not only will this elegant 8.5 x 7 x 1-inch box fit anywhere, but you also have the choice of mounting it directly to the back of any extra monitor you happen to have lying around. To be clear, the Eee Box is not for sweaty frag fests or heavy-duty HD video decoding. But if you have a hankering for a killer kitchen PC or just an über-cheap second or third home PC that runs Linux or XP, it simply can't be beat. WIRED: Small, lightweight and cuter than a bowlful of kittens. More than enough processing power for everyday computing. Cheaper than an ounce of <a href="http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr4/4Price.html">Da Kine bud</a>. The option of running Splashtop for preboot access to Skype, web browsing and IM clients. TIRED: Where's the optical drive? No HDMI output, which actually doesn't matter much because there's also no hardware to decode acceleration. By itself, the Atom processor can barely handle 720p H.264 streams, dashing our hopes of this being the ultimate home-streaming box. $300 as tested, <a href="http://www.asus.com">Asus</a> <img src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles8.gif" alt="8 out of 10"> Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/review-asuss-mi.html">Asus Eee Box review</a>. Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/iomega_dvdr_expander_t.jpg'></img>: Iomega's own $190 solution for a filled DVR is a 500-GB drive that plays nice with two DVRs in particular: Scientific Atlanta's 80-GB standard definition 8300 and the more recent 160-GB 8300-HD model. We tested the drive out on the latter model and found it more or less did what it promised. It even worked with a neighbor's Series 3 TiVo, which (to its credit) is known for being something of an eSATA slut. Setup in both instances was quick and painless, and involved simply turning off the DVR, plugging in the Iomega drive, and then turning everything back on again. Voila, no more having to choose between <cite>Emmanuelle: The Art of Love</cite> and the latest episode of <cite>Mad Men</cite>. WIRED: Reasonably priced. Your grandmother could probably set it up. Instantly adds an additional 300 hours of SD TV, or 60 hours of HD content. TIRED: Only one way to connect the drive to a DVR (that would be eSATA). Limited compatibility, although Iomega claims the drive will work with future SA eSATA-enabled DVRs. No way of controlling what gets stored on the expander drive and what gets stored on the DVR. Transporting DVR'd content to your computer is verboten, and plugging the drive into a computer will automatically reformat it. $190, <a href="http://www.http://store.iomega.com/section?p=4760&secid=40079">Iomega</a> <img alt="6 out of 10" src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles6.gif"> Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/review-iomega-d.html">Iomega DVR Expander Drive review</a>. Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/samsung_slider_t.jpg'></img>: The Samsung U900, aka Soul, aka Magical Touch, doesn't really have any supernatural abilities. What it does have is a tiny, touch-sensitive OLED nav-pad that is one of the coolest, most efficient touch interfaces we've seen on a handset. The small display (situated below the main 2.2-inch QVGA screen) features icons that morph based on whatever application is currently on the screen. Switch to camera mode and controls for snapping pictures. Toggle to the music player and buttons for fast-forward, rewind, pause and play pop up. The big selling point is the phone's pocketability. The picture quality and dynamic range could be better (LED flash, we're talking about you), but at 0.5-inches thick and 7 ounces, this slider is more svelte than just about every 5-MP cam we've tested. Ultimately, our biggest complaint is that you cannot use the camera without sliding open the phone first. This design protects the lens from dust bunnies and pocket grime, yes, but shooting with a fully open device was a tad awkward at times. WIRED: External microSD slot makes it a cinch to swap cards on the fly. Bluetooth (+A2DP). Competent image-editing suite. Video editor allows you to layer additional audio tracks. Decent facial detection. Haptic feedback can be tweaked to three different levels of intensity or switched-off entirely. TIRED: Bundled proprietary ear buds sound duller than Ben Stein. No Xenon flash. No GPS. No WiFi. Lower-res video clips. Proprietary headphone jack positioned on the side = hard to pocket when phones are plugged in. Noticeable screen glare when outdoors. $400, <a href="http://www.samsung.com">Samsung</a> <img alt="7 out of 10" src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles7.gif"> Photo: Issac Brekken/Wired.com Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/review-svelte-s.html">Samsung SGH-U900 Soul "Magical Touch" review</a>. Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/t_mobile_sidekick_t.jpg'></img>: The biggest selling point of the new Sidekick is supposed to be the customizable "skins" you can order to replace the solid-color ones (we opted for jet black). But apart from flashy aesthetics, the pocket-friendly 2008 is 0.4-inches shorter and 0.9-ounces lighter than the pricier LX. It also packs features that were sorely missed with the tragically minimalist iD. Most notably, a 2.0-megapixel camera that can also capture video clips (albeit crappy ones). Though the 2.6-inch WQVGA swivel screen’s received a slight -- and necessary -- boost in pixels (400 x 240), the resolution’s still not fantastic. And neither is Bluetooth. We found data transfers not only paused the media player (annoying), but afterward, we had to go back and manually un-pause whatever track was playing (doubly annoying). For the price, though the 2008 is a solid option compared to the LX -- but only if you live and die by instant messaging and you don't mind being seen with Paris Hilton's device of choice in public. WIRED: Spacious, comfy QWERTY. 3.5-mm headphone jack. Surprisingly loud, radically clear music player. Wide screen excellent for web browsing. Solid battery life. Quick video recording/sharing. Comes with two skins (we got black and iridescent lime). Bluetooth with A2DP (great to have, even if it does disrupt tunes). TIRED: Screen retains more fingerprints than the Feds. No flash. No WiFi. Mike captures poor sound when recording video. Only 20-second video clips. Only 512-MB microSD card included. Apps are mostly in the $2.99+ range (except for the janky free Calculator). No 3-G. Price/maker: $150 (with 2-year contract), <a href="http://www.t-mobile.com">T-Mobile</a> <img src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles6.gif" alt="6 out of 10"> Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/review-newest-t.html">Sidekick review</a>. Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/planet_bike_blaze_t.jpg'></img>: Cyclists know it's plum foolish to roll around on two wheels sans helmet, but it can be just as dangerous to bike about at night without a light. A good headlight affixed to your handlebars is just the thing to help cut through the murk and get you to your destination safely. Here we pit two of the top dogs on the market against each other and see which comes out on top. —Eric Smillie Planet Bike Blaze This one-watt LED cannon goes the extra mile, and we don't just mean it shoots light a ridiculous distance. Due in no small part to its particularly aggressive blinking mode, accurately called superflash, it didn’t just help us catch drivers' attentions; it had them anxiously craning their necks to check whether we were trying to pull them over. Drawing on only two AA batteries, this baby cuts down on weight but its CREE XR-E diode, coupled with a specially engineered Fraen lens, still pumps out the brightest light of all the lamps we tested -- enough to bounce off signs, license plates, and other reflective materials up to four blocks away, giving us plenty of time to make an impression. All we have to worry about now is whether some cop-hating, GTA IV-overdosing motorist trying to run us down. WIRED: Recessed switch only works if pressed firmly, which means it won’t turn on in your bag while you jostle your way to the bar, leaving you in the dark at closing time. Planet Bike spends 25 percent of its profits on bike advocacy. TIRED: The brightness and reduced weight come at a price: 20 hours of battery life in blinking mode, and only seven on high. Though it installs without the use of a tool, the handlebar bracket is tricky to tighten and slips easily. $50, <a href="http://www.planetbike.com">Planet Bike</a> <img alt="8 out of 10" src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles8.gif"> Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/topeak_whitelite_t.jpg'></img>: While not the sharpest bulb on our handlebars, the WhiteLite HP AA is in it for the long haul. Don’t get us wrong -- just like other 1-watt LED headlamps, this portable, all-in one lamp is more than a glorified blinky. When engineering this light, Topeak got all snippy, cutting the cords to one of its external power-pack lights and reengineered it to accept three AA batteries. Its widely diffused beam covers plenty of surface area and earned our trust by helping us dodge nasty potholes and tree roots on unlit paths. But where this guy really shines is in perseverance, by lasting 30 hours on high and a whopping 120 on flash. WIRED: The mounting bracket screws tight with a finger knob and adjusts five degrees left and right to get a straight aim even on angled handlebars, although it does require an Allen key to tighten. Little red LED signals when batteries are low. TIRED: Blinks come slowly and lack urgency in flashing mode. Pushing the rear on/off push button can rotate the mount and mess up the light angle. Sound like a small problem? It won't be when you look up just in time to face plant into the bumper of a lifted pickup. $60, <a href="http://www.topeak.com">Topeak</a> <img src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles7.gif" alt="7 out of 10"> Check Wired.com's latest <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/reviews/">Gadget Lab reviews</a>, updated daily. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_gadgets/nokia_e71_t.jpg'></img>: The E71 looks more like a Blackberry Killer, but don’t be fooled: This great white hope gives the iPhone a run for its money in a lot of different areas (yes, really). Despite its obvious lack of an oversize touchscreen interface, Nokia wins points for a remarkably trim profile (10mm vs. 12.3mm), decent 3.2-megapixel camera (instead of 2.0), and the fact it's not tied to any carrier (yet). Setting up Nokia's Mail for Exchange program required no IT help or time. QuickOffice let us create, edit and send Word/Excel/PowerPoint files on the fly while we browsed PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Reader. The E71 is stocked with enough apps and goodies to keep even the most overworked road warrior on the ball, but it didn't feel too "business" due to two separate customizable home screens. One is designed to house all of your work apps while the other is geared more toward entertainment with programs for audio, video and gaming. The phone's 2.36-inch, 320 x 240 QVGA display is only slightly smaller than the iPod classic's, and though the resolution can't top the iPhone's, with 15 fps, the E71 is still solid for YouTube clips. Oh, and did we mention the E71's got battery life for days? Yes, literally, three of them. WIRED: Up to 8 GB in an easy-to-access, external microSD slot. Quick and seamless OS. GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth (you name it, it's basically got it). Vivid screen (even in direct sunlight). Textured stainless steel backing prevents slippage. Relatively lightweight (127 grams = six grams lighter than iPhone). Hit any letter on the QWERTY pad and predictive text calls up that section of your address book. TIRED: No standard 3.5-mm headphone jack. 3.2-megapixel camera's optics could be better. LED flash could be way better. N-Gage gaming platform not available. Screen's wide, but not wide enough to do a feature-length film justice. For $500, you could get two 8-GB, 3-G JesusPhones (with $100 left over to put toward AT&T's data plan). $500 (unlocked), <a href="http://www.nokia.com">Nokia</a> <img src="http://blog.wired.com/images/circles9.gif" alt="9 out of 10"> Photo: Max Buck/Wired.com Read our full <a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/07/review-nokia-e7.html">Nokia E71 review</a>. 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Aug. 8, 1876: Edison Patents Mimeograph

1876: Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century. Before the inkjet printer, before the laser printer, before the dot-matrix printer, before the photocopier, there came the mimeograph machine. They were everywhere — in schools, offices and the military. If you needed just a few copies of a document, you used carbon paper. If you needed thousands (and had the time and the budget), you could send it to a print shop for typesetting and publication. But if you needed something in between, say 30 copies for a classroom handout (or test!) or 500 or 1,000 for a church bulletin or incendiary revolutionary poster, you had the mimeograph. Before the light bulb lit up in his laboratory, before he pioneered the power station, before he recorded "Mary had a little lamb" in the <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.01/accidental.html">first practical phonograph</a>, before he made <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0201">motion pictures work</a> and then <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000439/">made motion pictures</a>, before 1,000 or so other <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/dayintech_0211">inventions and improvements</a> great and small, Edison invented the mimeograph. Those of us who are old enough to remember the mimeo can probably conjure up the smell of its ink -- especially ink for the Dittograph or spirit duplicator, which handled the smaller press runs. Those who actually used to "run things off" on the machines probably remember the look and feel of its sometimes-delicate stencils. Those who are younger may not even know how the word is pronounced. It's MIM-EE-oh-graf, not MYME-oh-graf or MEEM-oh-graf. Ask your parents. The process is simple: Cut a stencil, push ink through the holes onto paper, and repeat. The business model is also simple: Sell the machine, sell the stencils, sell the ink, maybe even sell the paper, but there might be competition there. Edison's 1876 patent covered a flatbed duplicating press and an electric pen for cutting stencils. Chicago inventor Albert Blake Dick improved the stencils while experimenting with wax paper and merged his efforts with Edison's. The A.B. Dick Co. released the <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/a-b-dick-company">Model 0 Flatbed Duplicator</a> in 1887. It sold for $12 ($270 in today's money). If you didn't want to use the electric pen, you could try cutting a stencil with one of those newfangled typewriters. But hand drawing of stencils persisted well into the 20th century for diagrams of sentences and diagrams of scientific concepts, as well as mathematical formulas that were beyond the scope of the typewriter keyboard. Later models replaced Edison's original flatbed press and hand roller for the ink with a rotating cylinder and an automatic feed from the ink reservoir. Deluxe models included an electric motor. You could also get cheaper ones that you had to crank by hand. The A.B. Dick Co. believes almost every U.S. military personnel order of World War II was run off on one of its machines. And so central is the mimeograph to the history of 20th-century education that the <a href="http://www.tc.columbia.edu/calendar/index.htm?EventID=5180">Columbia University Teachers College</a> is planning a special exhibit on the mimeograph at its library today. We saw that on the web, not on a mimeographed flyer. 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Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches, Feingold Charges

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Dominate Your Son's Pinewood Derby

The pinewood derby is more than a childhood game, its your son's reputation. Give your little speed racer an extra edge on the track by using physics to turn a piece of pinewood into a turbo blur. With some simple tweaks, you will show those cub scouts how fast a toy car can really go. <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:36776f5a5a1b44fd9fb95e3576ccb874:jan1H6PqkIiaD85nITXfHOHKxl9%2BvEklosGltL1US6x%2BsC9P1dknRQJcnXaDoGuQhrralOxzc5%2BXNiA%2BDHoADaPQQbFKeEXPj84r22YeFIo%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:64df69d298fc932579027c8784b8fe11:cazqF3UCkwCKUiFv93c35P4Jg%2B4Mflxr8%2FsQUmxwaDUSTWWzNDdHjtZRn86pdbcFvso23i9LmS0T%2FnCBIL2RTKW%2Bnc%2FkR82%2FiEwTZ1bmYqU%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:2f783a954ae399fce41a34ce6eae8d3f:O0oWGRUms9NzsuoUsEzoJ2151gQ8eMZyz3A5tY0bPwcN%2FgD8%2F0ZJvYa9If3iDgyX27NIqsVhv3Gx%2BkWXLX1CqFdSwV6jp5e599EZZA4OGcA%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:29d2d24729e51fee07fad4eee495e461:Gjc5PC6JbrkDMv%2BucvZvnd3ZGVuale0D9syHLOWnkkb6rSJJRe%2Fm6I7yTEhW3g9rdsBDfA7fMGOwL38jdHmAoRd9G%2BfqQLGYBhZv2Lh8RPM%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'/></a> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=f5c6f8978877edfb7ca05fa2c9ebe780" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=f5c6f8978877edfb7ca05fa2c9ebe780" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?a=ogaRaL"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?i=ogaRaL" border="0"></img></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/358904990" height="1" width="1"/>

Download Torrents via Remote Control With Transmission

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Movie Theaters Stave Off Extinction

A new study suggests people won't go to the movies as often in the event of a recession. Still, this summer is shaping up to be the second consecutive record-breaking summer at the box office -- what gives? Apparently, it takes more than an economic downturn to stop people from going to the movies -- it takes box office bombs. <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:85b8283752aca52940ab5c361b411623:HD5SumuMHz4YbCNIAmITnqdA%2B%2FCsvvs6XK60gUTC3XHPR%2FRTN0MLU53tUwg9wqEJvZ%2FTJcxtPgOI%2BzopnvDDXv5rIB2Xro4Pbi%2FCQ6I5s2Y%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:62cfbe06cfbcbf3a247618bbde000495:BQzk06ugu0MoMwTesWBG09u%2F9DRYUOgg4u4N1PsPP3AV1eLBg4OY4z92Lpu0eZTJ%2Bx4tG4tWdl1uhqgokWA6hm9qyo6MdYzrKMjl0F1Mtcs%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:3526e07968e3337985ea45b656b3775d:mSUStfLyDIJCWrt7ho7vTCVQztSw%2F0wWxAkliu4VTKTuDRrbZYsfTFUH2%2FEcVI2EHQmuKf95vKiCohDMQ1kkFEckkh73kgEeSoWoNnP8Y80%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:b1d9c7cb08206a1b86bea0f4edc25913:5awimKj5Fqm%2Fn98TjACFZWbEEGNXXWHkjLW2klQ4%2FQrwuF5Ag53smc6j1b3mTNn5TWb1Bh0bdaeqxItRWMtiyXdb%2FMeu5I9GJiUAH%2FscScw%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'/></a> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=a94a26f2080a5ee876ab34fcf8490764" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a94a26f2080a5ee876ab34fcf8490764" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?a=7IsSpa"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?i=7IsSpa" border="0"></img></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/358790463" height="1" width="1"/>

Early Mars Was Likely Habitable

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Beijing Leads in Race for Most Polluted Olympics

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Doing Something About the Weather, Financially at Least

<div class="content_sharing"> News from Portfolio.com <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/?TID=wiredpartner"><img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/full/2008/03/logo_portfolio.jpg" class="portfolio_img"></a> <div class="content_sharing_txt"> Also on Portfolio  <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/08/06/Time-Warner-Earnings/?TID=wiredpartner"> Good Show by Time Warner, but AOL Drags</a>  <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/08/06/money-talks-on-this-phone/?TID=wiredpartner"> Money Talks on This iPhone</a>  <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-hollywood-deal/2008/08/06/can-ben-stiller-cap-off-paramounts-summer/?TID=wiredpartner"> Can Ben Stiller Cap Off Paramount's Summer?</a> </div> <div class="content_sharing_sub"><a href="https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/N3/FOL/self_fol_control_TVL.jsp?cds_page_id=39267&cds_mag_code=FOL&id=1205777661443&lsid=80771311187037701&vid=2&cds_response_key=I8CNAAA9&cds_mag_code=FOL">Subscribe to Portfolio magazine</a></div> </div> In past years, Pete Fisch used to cross his fingers, hoping it wouldn't rain during the annual golf tournament he manages in North Carolina. In 2005, it poured, costing the tournament tens of thousands of dollars in reduced ticket and concession sales. In 2006, the rain gods held off—and then last year, Fisch simply sat back and let come what may. That's because a new online service called WeatherBill enabled him to purchase a contract that paid off in case of heavy rain—hedging away his exposure to the weather. As it turned out, it did rain heavily last year. Fisch's tournament received a payout of close to $15,000 from WeatherBill. "We still took a loss of around $25,000 to $35,000, but it's better than the $50,000 we would have lost," Fisch says. As businesses <a href="http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/08/Stormy-Weather">contemplate losing massive amounts of money</a> from events like droughts and hurricanes, WeatherBill hopes to carve out a market in the growing field of weather-related risk-management products, offering what are essentially weather futures contracts to companies with an internet-era twist. The contracts pay off automatically without any kind of claims process based on objective weather measurements like the inches of rain a given area receives. The company is the brainchild of David Friedberg, who had previously been the business product manager for Google's AdWords and a founding member of the company's corporate-development group, where he led the search giant's acquisitions of companies like Picasa, Urchin Software, and dMarc. Friedberg left Google to launch WeatherBill in 2006. The potential market for weather coverage is huge, since as much as 70 percent of American businesses are impacted by weather in some way. While the risks for companies like agricultural firms are obvious, businesses from movie theaters—which see ticket sales slump on sunny days—to transportation companies and clothing manufacturers are affected by the weather. It's estimated that $2 trillion to $3 trillion of the United States' nearly $14 trillion G.D.P. is weather-sensitive. Businesses have long bought insurance against weather-related damages; more recently, they have been able to buy weather futures contracts on exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but the offerings are largely linked to temperature and are unwieldy and expensive for smaller companies. WeatherBill takes a different approach, borrowing from AdWords' sophisticated, real-time auction engine for pricing keywords. Just as AdWords integrates the latest market changes on a continuous basis, the WeatherBill pricing engine correlates up-to-the-minute weather forecasts with trend data to assess a company's overall risk. Then it spits out a price based on all those factors, with all of this happening in a tenth of a second, and contracts can be purchased right up to the last minute since the latest weather information automatically gets incorporated into the pricing engine. "For weather coverage to be useful, you have to customize it," Friedberg says. "It's not like car insurance—you're a male between 20 and 40 in San Francisco, here's your price for car insurance." The end result is that more types of weather contracts are available and more businesses can afford it. When Fisch's golf tournament bought its rain contract in 2007, the cost was just under $1,000, according to Fisch. Like a typical insurance business model, WeatherBill's strategy is to sell against enough weather eventualities so that the events will essentially balance each other out. Insuring a soybean grower in Iowa against drought might be a money loser, for instance. But if the soybean grower is offset by the state's car washes, which do big business in dry weather, the risk is diversified. Not every customer has a precise counterpart, but a large mix of customers creates a diversified portfolio that, in turn, can bring down prices. "Our business has all sides of risk—we've got customers wanting rain, drought, heat waves, frost, no frost. We even have people who want hurricanes," says Friedberg. Since last year's launch, Friedberg says WeatherBill has signed policies with hundreds of customers, hedged hundreds of millions of dollars of risk, and brought in revenue "in the millions." A major deal was struck with Priceline recently, allowing the travel company to insure its users against rain on their vacations for no extra cost. (Priceline will refund the cost of a customer's trip if it rains heavily on more than half the days of their trip.) And the United States Tennis Association has announced it's buying a weather contract to hedge against weather-related losses at this year's U.S. Open, although it hasn't released details. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates weather derivatives, currently limits WeatherBill's customers to accredited investors with a minimum net worth of $1 million as a way of limiting the influence of speculators. But Friedberg hopes to persuade the C.F.T.C. to change that requirement soon and eventually offer policies directly to individuals wishing to protect weddings, travel plans, and other events. As with businesses, premiums would shrink as more customers are integrated into the algorithm and the risk is balanced out. And Friedberg says that global warming and the volatile weather of the last few years set the right conditions for his business. "Citrus farmers will call us and say, 'We had four frost events last year. It was nuts. My crop was diminished by 15 to 20 percent,'" Friedberg says. "A lot of ski resorts were shut for much of 2006 and 2007 in the Northeast because it was really warm. They called us the next year. 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Security Matters: Memo to Next President -- How to Get Cybersecurity Right

Obama has a cybersecurity plan. It's basically what <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/2008/07/16/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_95.php">you</a> would <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/2008/07/16/fact_sheet_obamas_new_plan_to.php">expect</a>: Appoint a national cybersecurity adviser, invest in math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and academia to develop a bunch of needed technologies. I could comment on the plan, but with security, the devil is always in the details -- and, of course, at this point there are few details. But since he brought up the topic -- McCain supposedly is "<a href="http://www.scmagazineus.com/Cybersecurity-and-the-presidential-campaign/article/112566/">working on the issues</a>" as well -- I have three pieces of policy advice for the next president, whoever he is. They're too detailed for campaign speeches or even position papers, but they're essential for improving information security in our society. Actually, they apply to national security in general. And they're things only government can do. One, use your immense buying power to improve the security of commercial products and services. One property of technological products is that most of the cost is in the development of the product rather than the production. Think software: The first copy costs millions, but the second copy is free. You have to secure your own government networks, military and civilian. You have to buy computers for all your government employees. Consolidate those contracts, and start putting explicit security requirements into the <a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Proposal">RFPs</a>. You have the buying power to get your vendors to make serious security improvements in the products and services they sell to the government, and then we all benefit because they'll include those improvements in the same products and services they sell to the rest of us. We're all safer if information technology is more secure, even though the bad guys can <a href=" /politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/05/blog_securitymatters_0501 ">use it, too</a>. Two, <a href="http://www.schneier.com/essay-141.html">legislate results and not methodologies</a>. There are a lot of areas in security where you need to pass laws, where the <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/information_sec_1.html">security externalities</a> are such that the market fails to provide adequate security. For example, software companies who sell insecure products are exploiting an externality just as much as chemical plants that dump waste into the river. But a bad law is worse than no law. A law requiring companies to secure personal data is good; a law specifying what technologies they should use to do so is not. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/17/internet.security"> Mandating</a> software <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/information_sec_1.html">liabilities</a> for software failures is <a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/06/71032">good</a>; detailing how is not. Legislate for the results you want and implement the appropriate penalties; let the market figure out how -- that's what markets are good at. Three, broadly invest in research. Basic research is risky; it doesn't always pay off. That's why companies have stopped funding it. Bell Labs is gone because nobody could afford it after the AT&T breakup, but the root cause was a desire for higher efficiency and short-term profitability -- not unreasonable in an unregulated business. Government research can be used to balance that by funding long-term research. Spread those research dollars wide. Lately, most research money has been <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E1DB113FF931A35757C0A9639C8B63">redirected</a> through Darpa to near-term military-related projects; that's not good. Keep the earmark-happy Congress from <a href="http://www.ostp.gov/pdf/1pger_earmark.pdf">dictating</a> (.pdf) how the money is spent. Let the NSF, NIH and other funding agencies decide how to spend the money and don't try to micromanage. Give the national laboratories lots of freedom, too. Yes, some research will sound silly to a layman. But you can't predict what will be useful for what, and if funding is really peer-reviewed, the average results will be much better. Compared with corporate tax breaks and other subsidies, this is chump change. If our research capability is to remain vibrant, we need more science and math students with decent elementary and high school preparation. The declining interest is partly from the perception that scientists don't get rich like lawyers and dentists and stockbrokers, but also because science isn't valued in a country full of creationists. One way the president can help is by trusting scientific advisers and not overruling them for political reasons. Oh, and get rid of those post-9/11 restrictions on student visas that are <a href="http://www7.nationalacademies.org/visas/Statement%20on%20Visa%20Problems.pdf">causing</a> (.pdf) so many top students to do their graduate work in Canada, Europe and Asia instead of in the United States. Those restrictions will <a href="http://www.aau.edu/research/Gast.pdf">hurt us</a> (.pdf) immensely in the long run. Those are the three big ones; the rest is in the details. And it's the details that matter. There are lots of serious issues that you're going to have to tackle: data privacy, data sharing, data mining, government eavesdropping, government databases, use of Social Security numbers as identifiers, and so on. It's not enough to get the broad policy goals right. You can have good intentions and enact a good law, and have the whole thing completely gutted by two sentences sneaked in during rulemaking by some lobbyist. Security is both subtle and complex, and -- unfortunately -- it doesn't readily lend itself to normal legislative processes. You're used to finding consensus, but security by consensus rarely works. On the internet, security standards are much worse when they're developed by a consensus body, and much better when someone just does them. This doesn't always work -- a lot of crap security has come from companies that have "just done it" -- but nothing but mediocre standards come from consensus bodies. The point is that you won't get good security without pissing someone off: The information-broker industry, the voting-machine industry, the telcos. The normal legislative process makes it hard to get security right, which is why I don't have much optimism about what you can get done. And if you're going to appoint a cybersecurity czar, you have to give him actual budgetary authority -- otherwise he won't be able to get anything done, either. --- Bruce Schneier is chief security technology officer of BT, and author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:a7dd7d358fec8ef69703eff2b155c4b8:3%2Bx4q3kOiFpmlaZYxsKAgAQhopKShFP8vuJyaFJ7fnsdl7gjInixgprV8zCBFJii9WOWBuOR7fuzfc2Y9JAIL7Cct3LztIXqZbClLt8EeME%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Facebook' alt='Add to Facebook' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/facebook.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:88a078ffbe71ab3b6c46052416d0dab2:QQSbp7ADMrQYrUEJlUro4LvP6Q5W3ycIS7c%2Bz60UJjsOnTK2Ouhg0Ajac0i7%2FiFDFSTaohPYK684w3GgTx3PYint0F%2F8TpGMPoKxck%2FpQJk%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Reddit' alt='Add to Reddit' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/reddit.png'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:ba59c0176047e3ab646d40d0449ce0c4:txQW%2BsG1LR0mtK91rh1V9%2BPpNf2vvV3OcuNL2fdyJhqMI3H5w42Dq10BpQXwy4SuKgdVCU3Bskdf0hvbqB%2FKHp%2BYVVPAMYFbJDSxgE8QVSs%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to digg' alt='Add to digg' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/digg.gif'/></a> <a style='font-size: 10px; color: maroon;' href='http://www.pheedo.com/hostedMorselClick.php?hfmm=v2:89cf5edc0ca2acc60790bd2459962004:NS67sAU2gHmGgHbXIPffrU057sxiOrbB8pmvXzZyY1T5vwGXj3xjVjoOjAkBrQCdS3UdTAbE4yKHDwCDp2y996UfgPM3B9Bk3%2FkBuXccK4A%3D'><img border='0' title='Add to Google' alt='Add to Google' src='http://www.pheedo.com/images/mm/google.png'/></a> <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=52c85b7d1d7411acfd0341928addaebc" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=52c85b7d1d7411acfd0341928addaebc" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?a=pFhjRm"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/wired/index?i=pFhjRm" border="0"></img></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wired/index/~4/358561277" height="1" width="1"/>

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Is JamLegend's <cite>Guitar Hero</cite>-Style Game the Next Scrabulous?

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We Can Cut Fuel Consumption 50% in 25 Years

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Lightweight Linux Desktop Proves Popular with Netbooks

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Black Hats on Big ID Theft Hacker Indictment: Yeah? So What

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Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, IBM Dedicate Mark I Computer

1944: Harvard and IBM dedicate the Mark I computer. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, or ASCC, the pioneering computer was notable for producing reliable results and its ability to run 24/7. Harvard electrical engineer <a href="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/50th/August.html">Howard Aiken</a> first dreamt up a large-scale calculator in 1937. He knew he needed a corporate partner and first courted Monroe Calculator Company, which turned him down. Aiken went back to the drawing board and came up with a proposal that convinced IBM, whose big product at the time was a punch-card processor. A big plus in the proposal was that it used so many existing IBM components in a new way. Clair Lake, Frank Hamilton and Benjamin Durfee finished the Harvard computer at Endicott, New York, in January 1943. They demonstrated it to the Harvard faculty members in December, and then took it apart, packed it up and shipped it off to Cambridge, where it was rebuilt in the basement of the physics lab. The Mark I was a monster: 55 feet long and 8 feet high. It weighed five tons and contained 760,000 components, including 3,000 rotating counter wheels and 1,400 rotary-dial switches, along with an assortment of shafts, clutches and <a href="http://www.maxmon.com/relay1.htm">electromagnetic relays</a>, all linked together with 500 miles of wire. Its clickety-clack sounded like a "<a href="http://www.maxmon.com/1939ad.htm">roomful of ladies knitting</a>." You fed instructions in on paper tape, and loaded the data on punch cards. It could only perform operations in the precise linear order it received instructions. The tape could not run backward. The Mark I could handle 23-decimal-place numbers and perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It was also programmed with subroutines for logarithms and trigonometry. It was slow, taking three to five seconds to do a multiplication. It gave you results through two outputs: <a href="http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/hmark1.html">teletypewriter and punch card</a>. Mathematician Grace Hopper of the U.S. Naval Reserve joined Aiken's team at Harvard and was instrumental in keeping the Mark I running. She repaired it one day by removing a moth that had fouled the Mark I's electromechanical innards, becoming the first person to debug a computer. She then coined <a href="http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm">the term computer bug</a>. When the time neared to dedicate the Mark I, in August 1944, the Harvard News Office put out a press release giving all the credit for the machine to Aiken. IBM chief Thomas J. Watson was himself so put out that his firm's work was not being acknowledged that he threatened to return to New York, boycotting the dedication and luncheon festivities. Cooler heads prevailed, and Watson stayed for the hoopla, but Aiken and Watson never got over their turf tiff. Years later, when Thomas J. Watson Jr. made a peace offering of a consultant gig at IBM, Aiken refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement. Hopper and Aiken (also USNR) used the Mark I to help the Navy produce <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/event.php?id=3456973&lid=1 ">tables for aiming artillery shells and bombs</a> in the closing year of World War II. The electromagnetic machine remained in use until 1959, by which time it was left in the dust by true electronic computers using first vacuum tubes, then transistors, then chips. And for all of the Mark I's advances, German engineer <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0512">Konrad Zuse's Z3 model</a> from 1941 may have preceded it as the world's first fully functional, programmable computer. Aiken went on to build the Mark II in 1947, the same year he founded the Harvard Computation Laboratory and <a href=" http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm">predicted</a>, "Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States." 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How to Watch the Olympics Online

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Gallery: Rise of the Open Source at LinuxWorld

<img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/EE2G0160_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comSAN FRANCISCO -- LinuxWorld is the E3 for many open source visionaries, tinkerers and zealots who rally around the communal ethos of open software. This year's conference is especially charged. As more open source projects like Firefox go mainstream, it's an exciting time for the GNU gurus to show the rest of the world the light. The conference boasts various keynote speakers such as Kevin Clark, director of IT operations at Lucasfilm, and also featured an exhibition hall packed with booths spreading the good word of the latest open source edicts. Left: A skull-pture composed of various dead electronics greets visitors outside the Moscone North Convention hall. The skull interacts with passers-by, eliciting a creepy electronic voice. The skull was presented by the Alameda County Computer Resource Center which aims to refurbish 1,000 salvaged computers in three days with open source software and donate them to local schools. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/linuxexpo_037_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comFusion-io demonstrates its silicon-based storage drive. While CPU processors have advanced continuously since 1987, disk drives have always had a hard time keeping up, says Rick White, co-founder and chief marketing director. "We'll be able to replace racks and racks of disk drives with just one flash," says White. "Computers will finally be completely silicon and use a lot less power, too." The new flash drives also promise to be environmentally friendly since companies that shift from spinning discs to the new drives would lower their carbon emissions considerably. According to White, a traditional 7200-rpm disk drive uses over 300,000 kwh a year whereas the new drive uses less than 100 kwh yearly. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/EE2G0043_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comExpo attendees passing by the Fusion-io booth could sign a waiver to ride the bull, er, spinning hard drive. "We're putting the show back in trade show," says Rick White, co-founder and chief marketing director of Fusion-io. "Don't feel bad," jeers White to the drive's latest defeated passenger, "either way you're eventually going to have to let go of that spinning drive anyway." <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/linuxexpo_098_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comShelly Milam, dressed as Tux the Linux penguin, and Ariana Parasco, dressed as The Gnu, dance their way around the expo showroom polling attendees on their favorite tech mascot. "We are doing a stunt to promote Groundwork Open Source," says Milam. "We're looking for the next open source idol." Those who participate have four competitors to choose from; Tux, Beastie, The Gnu and The Firefox. "So far I think Tux is winning," says Milam. <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/EE2G0078_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comHere, one unlucky machine blasted with sand and saltwater gets a second chance at life. DriverSavers Data Recovery displays various machines claimed before their time through unfortunate circumstances, and discusses how their company recovered the valuable data stored on the damaged disk. "With more people than ever recording their lives digitally, that data has become exponentially more valuable," says Jacqueline Cunningham, a strategic alliances specialist for the company. "We save data, we save reputations and we've even saved marriages," says Cunningham. "It's always either personal or financial but either way it's very important." <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2008/08/gallery_linux_expo/linuxexpo_009_t.jpg'></img>: Photo: Emily Lang/Wired.comGloria Galicia, left, and Perla Ibarra, middle, aren't your typical booth babes -- both of the savvy beauties run personal blogs that cover both the operating system BSD and their personal lives. "I work for one of the sponsors of BSD," says Galicia. "I've never been to a trade show before and wanted to check it out and support BSD." Both women are on site to answer questions about the latest version of the OS, PC-BSD 7, Fibonacci edition. "This operating system has been under steady development since the '70s, and we're a viable alternative to Linux," says Matt Olander