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Favorites: “a lamentation of Morlocks,” “a murmur of the possessed,” and “a delectation of nymphs.”
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Colorjive – Home
Oh yeah. Digital paint for easy home renovation planning.
(tags: houseblog diy color)

Technology Review: Software That Fixes Itself
Heuristic binary patching based on observation of an attack.
(tags: security binary)

Color design in It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Brilliant review of how color design conveys mood, emotion, and story through a classic children’s show–just in time for Halloween. Good read for designers.
(tags: color design peanuts television)

Amazon Launches PayPhrase — Will It Be Easy To Game?
This was my question–what’s the security context of the PayPhrase concept? [...]

We’ve visited the Virginia Glee Club during their spa years in the 1930s, but what was the group doing in the 1940s? Part of that history, the group’s participation in the creation of Randall Thompson’s “Testament of Freedom” (dedicated to the group and composed in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s 200th birthday), is well documented. The [...]

Glee Club in 1947
I think this is the Scott Stadium performance.
(tags: uva virginiagleeclub)

This is a review of a new CD from the Virginia Glee Club that is available for purchase on the group’s website.
This is the season of Virginia Glee Club CDs. After a long drought, Frank Albinder’s years as director are finally documented with not one, but three new recordings available now: Virginia Glee Club Live!, [...]

Symphony Of Ghosts: Mission Of Burma
No such thing as too much Burma.
(tags: missionofburma live music free)

Reliable Source – Justice Scalia's bright moment
Heh. Scalia gets an operatic "lap dance" in the Kennedy Center's production of Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos."
(tags: opera scalia supremecourt)

Yet another reason McCain's "Internet Freedom Act" is dumb, Net Neutrality is good: national security? – Boing Boing
Does giving private carriers the ability to prioritize Internet traffic constitute a national [...]

Brook Farm group was among the first to hear Beethoven’s brilliance – The Boston Globe
Matthew Guerrieri writes about the early popularity of Beethoven in Boston–championed by the Transcendentalists, along with Swedenborg and other hippies.
(tags: beethoven bso boston)

I’ve been busy, which is of course no excuse, but there are going to be posts forthcoming. I received my long-awaited copy of the Virginia Glee Club’s Songs of Virginia today in the mail, along with a new Christmas CD from the group, and notes on both will be forthcoming. I was tickled to get [...]

Apple – Magic Mouse – The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse.
Multitouch comes to the Mac desktop interface — in a mouse. Nice solution for older laptops too. RIP Mighty Mouse.
(tags: apple mac)

The University of Virginia – a set on Flickr
Photos from the early 80s at UVA, including a Glee Club rehearsal.
(tags: virginiagleeclub uva)

As before, I’m having a hard time keeping up with our contractors. The picture above is from Friday. At the end of last week, they had sunk a pair of drywells (one visible above), established the drainage field with perforated pipe and gravel inside and outside the foundation, and backfilled the foundation (poured the previous week). [...]

University of Virginia: its history … – Google Books
There was a predecessor organization to the Virginia Glee Club–the Carr’s Hill Glee Club, dating to 1861. I guess the war interrupted it. (See discussion of the Carr’s Hill Glee Club in historical context in the liner notes to Shadow’s on the Sundial.)
(tags: virginiagleeclub uva)

Apple ships modified iPhone 3GS to stop hacking | The Loop
As Gruber points out, if any other vendor were to fix a buffer overflow bug in their product, we’d call them responsible.
(tags: security iphone)

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Cartoon of the day
Jen Sorenson’s iPhone/Palin/Obama Nobel/Terminator mashup cartoon got a big shout out from Fake [...]

Gag order blocks Guardian from reporting on Parliament – Boing Boing
This is bad–an unprecedented infringement on freedom of the press based on the bad faith actions of law firm Carter Ruck and the alleged toxic waste dumping of the Trafigura Company.
(tags: environment freespeech)

Vintage 78s
Includes a paragraph on sixteen-inch aluminum “transcription records,” which ran at either [...]