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Last night I had my first massive attack of comment spam. All from 212.199.169.153 over 10 minutes adding up to 10 garbage messages. It would have been more if not for my throttle setup. Annoying, but at least I can delete each one pretty easily. All the posts hit were recent posts, so turning off comments for old posts would not have helped in this case….

Draganfly Innovation put together a scaled down General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Predator B aircraft for hobbyist use. “[C]an even be equipped with a GPS flight control unit for long distance, pre-programmed reconnaissance missions (20 miles effective range)” Starts at $600 without the camera attachment, or $750 with a wireless video camera and lithium-polymer batteries allowing for a 90 minute flight time….

MediaChest is a social networking application to hook assets to social trees. A new spin on Distributed Library. Books, CDs, DVDs, and games. The games interface is the strongest and seems to be responsible for most of the early adopters. I would like to see an export as XML feature supporting library standards and the ability to search for friends instead of relying on an e-mail invite. Distributed Library has the edge by allowing users to search for goods based on their location. Check out my MediaChest library….

MozCC is an extension for Mozilla-based browsers that adds a button to your toolbar to examine the Creative Commons license of a site where one exists….

2RSS.com has a new PHP service (free) that converts Atom feeds to RSS. Since you are passing an Atom feed as a parameter you do not even have to own the feed you are converting. A good way to read all the Blogger weblogs in a RSS aggregator….

Mainsoft Visual Mainwin allows Visual Basic and C# developers to compile J2EE bytecode. It also supports ASP.Net and ADO.Net class libraries. Supports BEA Weblogic 8.1, IBM Websphere 5.1 and Tomcat 5….

Apple now has a RSS information page. NetNewsWire and FeedDemon get a mention too….

Tonight I attended ConCon, a one hour briefing of talks and ideas from O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Kevin Marks introduced Technorati’s services. Ralf Muehlen introduced me to SFLAN. Cory Doctorow thinks that e-books now are where online music was in 1996: no one saw a reason why anyone would give up the tangible quality of a work. Kevin Burton is working on a plugin for Mozilla to export Orkut data for import into other formats such as FOAF. Scott Draves talked about his Electric Sheep project which is a very cool distributed genetic graphics engine. Tantek gave a quick overview…

Scientists believe that love is little more than an influx of bonding hormones, namely oxytocin and vasopressin, according to The Economist. “[A] relatively small area of the human brain is active in love, compared with that involved in, say, ordinary friendship.” “Parts of the brain that are love-bitten include the one responsible for gut feelings, and the ones which generate the euphoria induced by drugs such as cocaine. So the brains of people deeply in love do not look like those of people experiencing strong emotions, but instead like those of people snorting coke. Love, in other words, uses the…

Next week is a small event in San Francisco, ConCon, for all of us who could not go to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference last week. RX Gallery 132 Eddy Street @ Mason Monday, February 16, 7-10 P.M….