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Long Jail Term for Iran’s ‘Blogfather’ – NYTimes.com Hoder escapes a death sentence but gets a severe penalty for speaking freely. (tags: blogging) Leaked Internal Emails Show Microsoft Overstated Windows Live Spaces Numbers I somehow missed this: Windows Live is being migrated to WordPress.com. And their numbers aren’t that hot for a blogging platform: about [...]

Click Here to Kick Ass It’s Asteroids! On any web page! And you can shoot at parts of the page! Paranoid folks note: Noscript will ask if you want to whitelist all of github.com if you want to run the Javascript on the page, which is probably not the smartest thing to do. (tags: javascript [...]

Billy (BK) Rios » Turning the Tables – Part I On how to exploit a weakness in the Zeus botnet command and control software and pwn it. (tags: security) McDonnell Cancels Confederate History Month | TPMMuckraker Some dim awareness seems to have filtered beneath the hairspray of Virginia’s hack of a GOP governor. (tags: virginia)

As I bask in a UVa football victory by a team that seems, for the first time in years, headed in the right direction, I am moved to consider why this is so. I happen to be reading Philip Bruce’s History of the University of Virginia now, and there’s a bit in a chapter on [...]

SOMETHING ELSE!: Christian Scott – Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (2010) Good review of young trumpeter’s most recent album. (tags: jazz christianscott) Elvis Costello accelerates to 78 rpm for ‘National Ransom’ | Pop & Hiss | Los Angeles Times Heh. LPs are passe. Wonder if the 78s are shellac? (Hope not; there will be a lot [...]

xkcd: Physicists This is why physicists make such good product managers. Or maybe bad product managers. (tags: xkcd physics) Haystack is burning: Iran activists disable privacy app after security holes exposed – Boing Boing When is an independent security audit not helpful for your code? When it’s not done. The total breakdown of Haystack after [...]

How could anyone who listened to Uncle Tupelo’s farewell album Anodyne, in particular the title track, esteem Jay Farrar as a talented songwriter? Crooning an obscure word as though it were a lover’s name is many things, but songwriting is not one of them. See also: “Caryatid Easy.”

Op-Ed Contributor – A Dictionary of the Near Future – NYTimes.com A few of these might catch on. (I suffer from an extreme, persistent case of “cover buzz.”) (tags: words) Nick Cave’s dirty detour : The New Yorker Nice capsule overview of Nick Cave’s career in the context of a “Grinderman 2″ review. (tags: nickcave [...]

JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone, BlackBerry Alternatives – Bloomberg Just like Windows taking over from other corporate platforms on the basis of grass-roots employee preferences. (tags: technology strategy)

The Good Ol Blog » Blog Archive » Moore Remembers Clemson Win I remember that game too. Hard to believe that was 20 years ago. Only a few weeks into my first semester at UVa and the team was breaking barriers–and Clemson’s defense. No wonder the Groh years were so disappointing; there was nowhere to [...]

Digital Comic Museum Awesome: hundreds and hundreds of Golden Age comics for download to a reader. (tags: books publicdomain) What parents worry about, what parents should worry about – Boing Boing Good illustration of the importance of accurate data, of questioning media hysteria, and of real responsible parenting. (tags: parenting)

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: 4’33″ playlist (Rabbit Fur Coat Berceuse) The 4’33″ playlist has better brand recognition than the 2’13″ playlist. (tags: music) Jeremiah Grossman: Our infrastructure — Assessing Over 2,000 websites WhiteHat pulls the curtain aside to talk about their scanning infrastructure. (tags: security)

Unicode Transformations and Security Vulnerabilities (Chris Weber) Interesting list of security issues from Unicode, including lookalike characters, the bidirectional feature, bad Unicode-to-other-charsets mangling, and more fun. From Chris Weber, who went to my high school before he started a security company. (tags: security unicode) Symantec mobilizes Snoop Dogg’s cybercrime unit — Engadget HackIsWack.com, ironically, has [...]

It’s first and ten for a new season of Virginia football, and for the first time in several years my heart is full of more than the usual blind optimism. With a new coach at the helm, I feel as though Virginia has a chance to shake loose the malaise that’s gripped the team for [...]

Album Tacos Album tacos! (tags: music funny photoshop food) Restoration of 1926 Model of the Academical Village Under Way (UVa Today) Be sure to check out the large scale photos of the model. Simply staggering amounts of detail. (tags: uva) Science lab starts expansion | The Cavalier Daily The lab formerly known as CEBAF, where [...]