Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

Announcing the Report an Error Alliance — Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard Brilliant initiative that pushes news organizations to crowdsource fact checking, and pushes readers to demand it. (tags: journalism) Scripting News: Jimmy Wales Day on the Internet? The wall of Jimmy would be really interesting, and really creepy. I’m reminded of an old Drew Friedman cartoon: [...]

WikiLeaks: China was behind cyber-attack on Google | ZDNet The most recent doc dump proves something that was asserted: Operation Aurora was a targeted attack sponsored by a sovereign nation state. (tags: security)

On Sunday I had to make my way back down to Virginia for a family emergency. While the cause was not pleasant, it was nice to be back in the town of my birth, for the first time in about ten years. In the summer of 2000 my parents sold our family home and relocated [...]

Why the TSA Practices Could Result In Public Rebellion or a Terrorist Attack Fantastic discussion of why the TSA’s unscientific security practices fail even to protect us. (tags: tsa politics privacy)

black-box-scanners-dimva2010.pdf (application/pdf Object) Study of reasons that black box scanners fail. (tags: security)

Today’s Virginia Glee Club history update is about one of the classic University of Virginia football songs, and the man who wrote it–the University’s second Jewish professor. Linwood Lehman wasn’t a Glee Club member–he was an undergraduate during a period where the Glee Club was mostly dormant, graduating in 1915 (the club had just revived [...]

Pretty Good for Government Work – NYTimes.com Notable socialist Warren Buffett thanks the government for intervening with the 2008 bailout. (tags: economy nytimes) blog at izs.me: TSA Success Story Opting out of being X-rayed with scientific backup. Make sure to read the letter from the UCSF faculty which raises a number of important points. Until [...]

Oral history of Richard Jarrett (1976) Another Madison County Jarrett, this one a moonshiner. (tags: family)

AirPrint Hacktivator Automatically Enables iOS Air Printing Interesting hack. I don’t know how imminent iOS 4.2 is, but this might be useful. (tags: ios airprint) Scripting News: The tech industry is a virus “…the obvious (in hindsight) answer: They looked in my iPhone’s address book. I never said they could. What else did they do [...]

My uncle got a pretty good distinction yesterday–he has his own page in the Special Collections Library website for UNC-Asheville. The page hosts oral history information from him about the family, and western North Carolina generally, along with photos. The first piece to go up is an interview with Uncle Forrest that my sister conducted [...]

Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans Please, my conservative friends, I beg of you: review this infographic and defend the Republican plan. (tags: taxes budget congress) Daring Fireball: Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X Surviving without Flash, or making otherwise Flash-laden sites serve H.264 [...]

Retiring Rugby | The Cavalier Daily In one student’s opinion, the old song of drunken debauchery at UVA has to go. (tags: uva) Working 8-bit CPU in Minecraft – Boing Boing Is it a digital computer or an analog computer? Or an analogue of a digital computer? Think carefully before answering. (tags: omgwtfbbq) Henryk Mikołaj [...]

One of the great composers of the late 20th century passed away today. Like many others, I discovered Górecki’s music through his Symphony No. 3, and turned quite a few other people on to him the same way. I will always remember an afternoon in late spring 1994, a few weeks before I graduated from [...]

The Virginia Glee Club | CD Baby Check it out–you can buy MP3s of the Virginia Glee Club’s Songs of Virginia on CDBaby! (tags: virginiagleeclub music mp3) Make: Online : John Edgar Park has a trigger mouth! Is it just me or does JP look more Tom Waits-esque every time I see him? (tags: johnpark [...]

iOS 4.2 for iPhone walkthrough | TiPb Looking forward to print and some of the other features. Having the video stream to Apple TV is interesting too. (tags: iphone ios)