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Scripting Attacks Plague Even the Web s Largest Sites – Webmonkey CSRF goes mainstream. (tags: security web) GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps – GigaOM How scale free nodes intersect with bandwidth caps. (tags: comcast web powerusers)

Bailout questions answered (Krugman) Krugman discusses the options faced by the Democratic Congressional leadership. Screwed, or more screwed, but not as screwed as the House Republicans. (tags: bailout economy congress) Rep. Pelosi’s Remarks on Floor Ahead of House Bailout Vote (Talking Points Memo) Transcript of Pelosi’s remarks. And that was what so inflamed House GOP [...]

I’ve been in rehearsals all week at Symphony Hall for the Tanglewood Festival Chorus’s first concert of the 2008-2009 Symphony Hall season, the Brahms Requiem with the Boston Symphony under James Levine. It’s an amazing work–I’ll try to describe it in more detail after our performances. But the two really amazing things for this weekend [...]

Apple plugs gaping holes in Java for Mac (Zero Day) Update, update, update. (tags: macosx java security) 25 Harshest Reactions To the Wall Street Bailout (10 Zen Monkeys) “The point is this is one of the most important irrevokable economic decisions we will ever make. Let’s make it in a state of panic.” — Steven [...]

Heresy Against the Church of Agile Software Development | The Cranky Product Manager Some valid counterpoint to the Agile drumbeat. (tags: productmanagement agile) I ghost-wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign | Salon News You didn’t think astroturf wrote itself, did you? (tags: 2008 election mccain humor) Google Introduces an iPhone Rival Open [...]

TrustedSource – Blog – Rise Of The PDF Exploits PDF exploit toolkits spotted in the wild. Update your browser plugins, kids, it’s going to be a fun ride. Better yet, if you’re on Mac OS X, uninstall Acrobat Reader entirely. (tags: security acrobat) Op-Ed Columnist – Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet [...]

David Byrne Journal: 09.21.2008: On the Road Again. I know that this post was primarily about the new show and not about David Byrne’s Life in the Bush of Hampton Roads, but I can’t resist the pointer: In Newport News, a group of us biked to the beach on the banks of the James River [...]

Lately it seems I spend more time on Facebook and Twitter than on the blog. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; it just reminds me that I need to make an effort occasionally to write longer form content, as fun and entertaining as it is to write bite-sized summaries of links on Delicious. But [...]

Daddy doesnt know best (Paul Krugman) I think–I hope–Krugman nails it here. The Bush administration tried to slip a fast one by us, a last gift for his cronies. There are enough people who were paying attention that it slowed down. Now, with Bernie Sanders, we can ask, “We’ve been told…we can’t afford—that the government [...]

Soho the Dog: Frederic’s out of his indentures Of the massive bailouts, Matthew says: “I hereby propose that, from now on, any banker who disparages government arts funding as unfairly rewarding organizations that can’t make it in the free market gets the business end of a broken beer bottle.” Yep. (tags: economy arts) Levine learns [...]

Transmission Free lightweight BitTorrent client for MacOSX. (tags: macosx bittorrent) TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama: The Washington Old-Boy Network Is A McCain “Staff Meeting” Obama seizes the attack, sharpens his criticism of McCain’s economic policies: “The ‘old boys network’? In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting.” (tags: 2008 election [...]

Speculation on Palin E-mail Hack …and here’s how they could have done it. Not every hack requires the knowledge of exploiting buffer overflows and SQL injections… sometimes there’s just plain bad design at work. (tags: 2008 election palin security) John McCain Invented the BlackBerry.com From the same twisted impulse (though probably not the same people) [...]

Sheer brilliance from my good friend Greg Greene: http://johnmccaininventedtheblackberry.com. Feed it suggestions on Twitter via #invented.  This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, btw: you can now follow me on Twitter too. Just don’t expect any deep thoughts.

Wines of The Times – An Italian Name Worth Practicing (NYTimes) Nice summary of aglianicos on the market. I’m with Eric–I’ll happily drink any aglianico I find on a wine list, which isn’t many. (tags: cucina wine)

There are some moments of karma that are just too good not to post. This is one of them: GOP delegate’s hotel tryst goes bad when he wakes up with $120,000 missing. An attendee of the RNC convention who argued that the US should “bomb the hell” out of Iran and seize its resources to [...]