Intrinsitivity

PlayStation 3 used to hack SSL, Xbox used to play Boogie Bunnies – Engadget

Between the juvenile delinquent hordes of PlayStation Home and some lackluster holiday figures, the PlayStation has been sort of a bummer lately, for reasons that have nothing to do with its raison d’etre — gaming. That doesn’t mean that the machine is anything less than a powerhouse — as was made clear today when a group of hackers announced that they’d beaten SSL, using a cluster of 200 PS3s.

Bored? Your brain is disconnecting – life – 10 December 2008 – New Scientist

Attention is like a communication amplifier that only focuses on the connections between certain regions at certain times, says Weissman. When the amplifier switches to a new set of connections, existing ones weaken. Communication between those regions slows and attention lapses.

Interstitial Publishing: A New Market from Wasted Time – Tools of Change for Publishing

For a day filled with IMs and music and slathered over with email, one opportunity for publishers is to promote interstitial reading, reading that is done in the brief moments between other engagements, whether those claims on our attention are other media or simply the wiggle room in a schedule: the time spent waiting for a plane, a doctor, or for a meeting to begin. That’s a huge number of minutes in any day; a good portion of our lives is wasted while we are waiting for the main course to arrive.