Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

NPR.org » The Tanglewood Festival Chorus Turns 40 A loving look at the TFC. I’m looking forward to our next appearance. I won’t be singing in the season opener but will be there for Stravinsky and Mozart later in July. (tags: tfc music bso)

I wish I could bottle how this feels. The clear blue sky, the warm breeze, smell of new cut grass sharp in the nose. Dogs pulling both ways. Long time coming.

Thanks to Google, the UVA library, and other online resources there is now a wealth of information available about the early 20th century at the University of Virginia–so much so that we can start to trace the history of individual student leaders of the Virginia Glee Club, not just the group’s directors. Two examples stand [...]

Foucault’s Pendulum cable snaps, causing irreparable damage – Boing Boing Noooo! (tags: foucault science)

MAKE hits the Red Carpet? MAKE: TV was nominated for an Emmy, up against Martha Stewart. My money is on JP. (tags: friends maketv)

Jane Siberry makes entire back-catalog into free downloads – Boing Boing Wow. There was a moment where Jane Siberry was about the most spectacular voice I had ever heard. Think I need to explore some of the back catalog. (tags: music mp3 free)

Ntdebugging Blog : x64 Manual Stack Reconstruction and Stack Walking Insight into debugging x64 code. Might come in handy. (tags: Security Binary)

SQL Injections Are the Most Common Website Vulnerability I think they forgot to open up the blog post with “Cross-site scripting, I’ma let you finish, but …” Seriously, the Veracode State of Software Security report found that XSS was more prevalent in web applications by a wide margin, both in terms of raw flaw count [...]

Faceted Finding with Super-Powered Breadcrumbs – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Nice approach to combining navigation and “where am I” in UI design. (tags: design usability userexperience)

Why buffer overflow exploitation took so long to mature (part 2) « root labs rdist Interesting article about the evolution of the buffer overflow market. The Wintel platform’s (x86 + Windows) attractiveness to developers appears to have not done it any favors when it came to the evolution of buffer overflow exploits. (tags: security) WhiteHat [...]

Conjoint Analysis 101 Nice introduction to one of the more conceptually rigorous concepts in product design. (tags: productmanagement) Coder Journeys From Wall Street to Prison | Threat Level | Wired.com The long, strange journey of Stephen Watt. (tags: security)

Operation Mincemeat and spycraft in World War Two : The New Yorker Pandora’s briefcase, or an extended argument on the perils of information asymmetry. Good WWII spycraft read from Gladwell. (tags: espionage informationtheory)

Practical Return-Oriented Programming Even in OSes with fully randomized address spaces and data execution protection, you can use return oriented programming to patch together malicious code from sequences of instructions that are in memory from common executables (“ransom note exploits”). The lesson: shift the game from focusing on injection vulnerabilities to minimizing the damage an [...]

At the urging of about six Facebook friends, I make the pilgrimage from downtown Austin, where I am on travel for a few days, to Driftwood, Texas, tonight to visit the Salt Lick. It’s a barbecue joint that’s been around for about 43 years. As these things go, it’s commercialized and simple at the same [...]