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In the process of putting together the Virginia Glee Club Wiki, containing the history of that illustrious 171-year-old assemblage, I’ve made my way through just about every official archive of Glee Club history. But there are gaps to be filled, so I’ve resorted to eBay. I’ve picked up yearbooks, magazines, and other ephemera trying to [...]

The Great Hall of Hams – Boing Boing Hall of noms, more like. Prosciutto ftw. gradient text?: Apple Support Communities Hackish workaround for getting gradient text in Keynote. Powered by Fresh From

NASA releases “most amazing high-definition” photo of earth, from space – Boing Boing Blue Marble 2.0.

New High-Quality Free Fonts (2012 Edition) – Smashing Magazine | Smashing Magazine I like free, and some of these are really nice. » A value-based approach to Customer Satisfaction and Product Metrics On Product Management Interesting collection of metrics for measuring customer value. Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing I hope [...]

On the Veracode blog (where I now post from time to time), we had a retrospective on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing memo, which had its ten year anniversary on the 15th. The retrospective spanned two posts and I’m quoted in the second: On January 15, 2002, I was in business school and had just accepted [...]

MPAA Blog | Standing Against Those Who Trumpet the Economic Value of Theft Dear MPAA, how’s that hating your customers thing working out for you? If Ars Technica is a known mouthpiece for theft, then you guys must be the nadir of the lying pits of hell for pushing the total breakage of the Internet [...]

Static analysis for detecting taint-style vulnerabilities Flow-sensitive taint-style analysis for PHP.

Dan Savage and Rick Santorum’s Google Trouble : The New Yorker More color, less detail, on the effect of Dan Savage’s long bet on Google-bombing Santorum. Copy Text from Quick Look Previews with a Terminal Command Works like a champ. Scripting News: The bosses do everything better What to do when someone says “I could [...]

How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? – NYTimes.com Indepth exploration of the genius that is Colbert.

Sound it Out #12: Spoek Mathambo “Put Some Red On It” – Boing Boing To check out–post-apartheid “township tech.” Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques – Smashing Coding An astonishingly detailed article and set of guidelines about CSS typography. For The 5th Year In A Row, Apple Wins CES. Before It Starts. Without Showing Up. [...]

Veracode Blog » Vulnerability Response Done Right It really can be that quick. Cisco Webex Utilities A bunch of useful Webex tools including the tracer and uninstaller for Mac. Baseline – a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com If you are a grid designer, this CSS framework is like porn. Take a look at the pages on [...]

Why Nerds are Unpopular Because they’re distracted from single-mindedly pursuing popularity? Interesting argument. Barry White’s sperm quality: Why are deep-voiced men attractive? – Boing Boing Or, why you should date a tenor and not a bass.

The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” – Slate Magazine Astonishingly detailed map of the US.