On The Bob Edwards Show Friday, a new regular segment was announced, one that sounds like it is going to be absolutely fascinating. Introducing the segment, Edwards said, in part, “In a special section of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the American Folklife Center is the guardian of this heartbeat, the collected sounds tapping out the rhythm of life in America…Each month, the Folklife Center will open its archive to us; you’ll hear things few ears ever have.”

The opening segment is more an explanation of the American Folklife Center and how it came to be, although there are some selections from the three-million selections in the archives; you can hear this program repeated every fifth hour all day today and tomorrow on the on-line service (which is free with your XM Satellite Radio subscription; if you’re not a subscriber, consider signing up for a free trial), and on the satellite service at 7:00 am EST Monday morning (4:00 am PST). The last Friday of every month, Peggy Bulger will return with more recordings - the sounds of America. Next month, sounds from the Black American experience.

If you subscribe to XM, you really want to hear this.

From Ars Technica: Vint Cerf: one quarter of all computers part of a botnet

Read this article, and be very afraid. Then wonder if your computer is part of someone’s botnet…