My Wired column is up. There’s also a podcast now. Woo hoo!

Tomorrow I’m speaking at an American Constitution Society lunchtime event on surveillance. And today, I recorded a podcast for RU Sirius’ Neofiles show. I’ll provide a link when it’s up, and tell more about how fun the experience was.

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Originally uploaded by Ms. President.

Brad rocks the string at Reconsidered Materials at the Exploratorium.

Here are my dorkbot slides.

Carla’s pictures from dorkbot.

Flickr’s pix.

Nerd Salon is a regular gathering of geeks and friends in which alcohol is consumed, puzzles are solved, interesting people talk about bizarrely technical topics, and hanging out is accomplished.

Our inaugural event will be a collective toast- and dance-fest in honor of ultra-nerd event CodeCon. Our plan is to invade the all-mashup nightclub Bootie at Annie’s Social Club. Join us!

Date/Time: Feb. 11 starting at 10:00 PM.

Where: Annie’s Social Club, 917 Folsom at 5th St.

For future Nerd Salon parties and announcements, join the mailing list.

I’m speaking at dorkbot this Wednesday.

For more on statistics, false positives, and mass detection systems, here’s an article by J.A. Paulos from the Temple University math department.

We got a new mac a few days ago. Brad, historically a PC user, was elated at how easy it was to set up.

My third column in the series on my obsession with the illegal wiretap scandal is now up on Wired. Its called Mass Spying Means Gross Errors.