Durham Art Walk is This Weekend

The Durham Art Walk is a unique downtown art tour featuring artwork by over 200 artists.

Check out the art along with the newest retail spaces, galleries, restaurants and creative downtown businesses.

Enjoy musical performances, great food and find surprises around every corner. Free shuttle service is provided. The event is free and open to the public. Rain or shine.

When: Saturday 4/17 - Sunday 4/18

Where: All over the place in downtown Durham

Make sure to drop by the Original Projects exhibition too.  This has been held over from last weekend due to overwhelming popularity.  I will have some of my work on display there too!

Why Dogs Love Us - Periodic Tables Tonight

Today is the second Tuesday of April which can mean only one thing: Periodic Tables!  Periodic Tables is a monthly event that brings interesting speakers and "where curious adults can meet in a casual setting to discuss the latest science in plain English."  Periodic Tables is organized by our friends at the Museum of Life and Science.

When: April 13, 2010 | 7:00 P.M.

Where: Broad Street Café in Durham, NC

Who: Dr. Brian Hare, Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University

More has been discovered about dog intelligence in the last decade than the preceding 100 years. The Duke Canine Cognition Center was founded to continue studying how dogs understand their world, how dogs might have evolved, and how we might help dogs be even more successful at helping people.  

Dr. Brian Hare will share some of his work comparing dogs to various species like wolves and chimpanzees. He is also interested in hearing your ideas for dogcentric research questions that you wish they had the answer to.

The First Original Projects Exhibition This Weekend

Original Projects is excited to host our first event. The event will take place in downtown Durham coinciding with the Full Frame Film Festival. We will be showcasing a variety of local original projects, bringing members of the site together to share their projects & passions, and helping attendees set up new projects on the site.

Gallery (322 East Chapel Hill St. Durham)

Fri. April 9th 10am - 8pm
Sat. April 10th 10am - 8pm

Meet the Originators

Sat. April 10th 4pm - 6pm

Drinks

Sat. April 10th 6pm - 8pm

Original Projects is a place where you can share and cultivate your original projects with the world (or just with certain people in the world); where you can connect and collaborate not based on who you are--but what you do and aspire to do; and where you can link and network with other users who have resources you may need to develop your projects.

Dress Up & Bring Google Fiber to Durham TODAY!

The folks over at HiFiber Durham have organized an event wherein they will get people to spell out "We Want Google" with their primary-color clothed bodies today at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.  Sorry for the short notice!

Participants should wear one of the following colors: black, blue, green, red or yellow, and show up at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park beginning at 11 a.m. March 18, Poley said. A team will organize participants by clothing color and arrange them onto the field to spell out “We want” in black, and “Google” in the colors that correspond to the Google logo (see photo). A photographer in a plane will zip over the field around 12:15 p.m. and take several photos.

Update on Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 9:50PM by Maker Faire:NC

Great job, everybody! I can taste that sweet, sweet fiber now!

If you haven't had a chance yet, go watch the excellent "Find Your Cool" video produced by ABC11 WTVD.

CarolinaCon Hacker Conference Starts Friday 3/19

The very excellent CarolinaCon starts Friday night in Raleigh. Each year the conference gathers hackers and other technology enthusiasts in one space to hear presentations on everything from copyright law to lock picking. CarolinaCon is one of the last great tech bargains out there. Low travel costs, low entry fee, fascinating speakers, entertaining attendees, and cheap booze; how can you go wrong?

This year's call for presenters was so popular the organizers added another day of talks for no extra cost! Just check out this schedule of presenters and try to tell me this isn't worth $20.

We Don't Need No Stinking Badges - Shawn Merdinger	Smart People, Stupid Emails - Margaret McDonald
Locks: Past, Picking, and Future - squ33k	Mitigating Attacks with Existing Network Infrastructure - Omar Santos
Cybercrime and the Law Enforcement Response - Thomas Holt, Professor Farnsworth	OMG, The World Has Come To An End!!! - FeloniousFish
You Spent All That Money and You Still Got Owned - Joe McCray	Physical Manifestation of Software: Microcontrollers 101 - Nick Fury
Something Smells Phishy: The Evolution of Social Engineering - Chris Silvers and Dawn Perry	Protecting Systems through Log Management and System Integrity - David Burt
It's Not A Vulnerability, It's A Feature - Deral Heiland	Why Linux is Bad for Business - wxs
The Search for the Ultimate Handcuff Key - TOOOL	Hacking with the iPhone - snide
The Art of Software Destruction - Joshua Morin and Terron Williams	Metasploit - Ryan Linn
How the Droid Was Rooted - Michael Goffin