Category: linkblog

Oh my God. Try “acrostic” or “abecedarius.” They have 45,297 entries, but they want to get at least one entry for each word in A – Cr of the OED…

The literature says there’s no measurable legibility difference. It all comes down to taste.

One of a set of maps handicapping the race.

More details on Levine’s planned surgery, including the C word.

After “The Information,” I was half afraid this was going to suck eggs. Guess I should go out and pick it up.

Bruised feelings in both camps, it would appear.

In other news, CafePress has at least $15-20 million in cash and stock. Who’da thunk it?

“No one has any idea where code has come from. The US government has a term for it: SOUP, software of unknown pedigree… Doing a security analysis on binary is superior to source code – hackers don’t attack source code.” Veracode’s value prop.

And this is what a buffer overflow sounds like, kids.

Interesting, and disappointing. By all means bash Obama AND bash McCain, but bash them on substance, or bash them both on appearances.

Simple way to chain WordPress themes together for easier code management.

Probably a good idea to put as many free tools out there to sniff out web security problems as possible. It raises awareness of the problem, solves some common issues, and builds a market for more sophisticated tools.

Have an opinion, be concrete, be direct, and be a contrarian. If I remember nothing else about writing this blog, hopefully I can remember these points.

Pointer to the Onion’s “Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused by His Disastrous Presidency.” I miss the days when the Onion did print rather than video, but they work a funny concept here.

Hook Spotlight into the cloud to search your online docs. Nice.

Useful for finding out if you’re being spied upon, among other use cases.

The problem solving process for resolving a very nasty Delicious Library bug. Great reading. Go buy Delicious Library.

Nice exercise in UI design for a humble Preferences window.

Heh. A great collection of Adobe error messages.

A shrinking planet with an active iron core and water. Nice for a first flyby.

Maybe someday I’ll be this cool. Or have this much time to futz around with pork bellies.

Options to eliminate the WordPress version number from your source code.

More thinking about tightening the security profile of web applications. Bonus: some pointers to tightening security for blog CMSes, including WordPress.

Different categories of product, and the importance of moving from a category sell to a product sell.

Thorough evaluation of the security of WordPress. Must read.

Useful! Except my Firefox 3 hasn’t crashed yet.

Never doubt the power of indexing.

Wow, just…wow. Needless to say, all my hopes go to the Maestro for a quick recovery, but damn.

“The Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the vice president were seeking deletions to the CDC testimony (concerning) … any discussions of the human health consequences of climate change.”

Full text book recommendations? Really? I find it suspicious that the first match for 1984 is the full text of the Patriot Act… Cool, though.

The AP learns that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to privately owned spaces. I’m tempted to make a snarky comment about this but it’s kind of an important point.

Crap. There goes a truly unique and gripping writer.

Heh.

Portrait of the candidate as a changing force in the community.

“Singing from memory in the many choral passages, John Oliver’s chorus was a potent force as both Trojans and Carthaginians. It, too, could warn and mourn.”

“At top form once again was the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, singing its extensive parts from memory…”

“Soloists who in opera would be singing from memory seemed to need scores, while the Tanglewood Festival Chorus rolled its hefty, sonorous parts from memory — expressive, nuanced business as usual….”

“The Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang with impressive power and a certain earthy immediacy not often heard in Symphony Hall, with its silk-lined acoustics.”

How to do whitelisting to prevent command injection and still support international characters.

On the shifting threat landscape as you remediate application security flaws.

Since my MacBook Pro has a two year old battery, this is a pretty good hint to keep the laptop from getting drained too quickly.

New SYR record coming out.

How to trick a DBMS into allowing injection through procedures that don’t take string inputs.

Thrilling robustness!

Exhibitionist finds a few relevant YouTube clips from other performances of Les Troyens.

It ain’t over yet, folks.

Yeah, I’m bookmarking a whole blog. Really interesting. Subscribed.

At some point, you have to ask “why bother”?

Are articles about Obama’s social networks the new articles about Obama’s campaign typography?

to read.

OMFG. I guess it was too much to hope that Apple would put some sort of quality filter on new iPhone apps.

Regardless of how much historical provenance you detail in the life of a Glenn Gould, it doesn’t explain his genius musicianship. Nevertheless, looks like a really interesting Katie Hafner book.

Looks like an upcoming version of WordPress will support Google Gears, meaning you can compose, edit, and upload media while you’re offline.

re the YouTube user data going to Viacom, unless users organize a response, this is going to happen more often. China’s Internet restrictions are a harbinger, not an abberation.

Nice way to go into the start of the Tanglewood season–a minor key variation in the style of Beethoven on the Theme to the Bridge over the River Kwai!

Dig we must! A famous boyhood emerges from the mists of legend.

Interesting discussion of the pros and cons of code signing on Mac OS X.

Security fixes, of course… but has anyone else noted all the iCal updates? Whaddup with that? Is the code just cruddy or what?

Freaking awesome–Liz goes song by song through some of the best stuff on Exile in Guyville.

Yup, I’m a-grinnin’.

A modest proposal. Snrk.

Personally, I’ve been eating 20 pounds of assorted leafy, cruciferous, and root vegetables per meal. How ’bout you?

To review.

Via Lifehacker.

Need to check out. Didn’t think I needed this until I started using the new Firefox plugin for Delicious…

Meshing Obama’s rhetoric with reality on the ground.

So how come all these articles about new MP3 stores don’t talk about artist inventory? It ain’t news unless you have music everyone else doesn’t, kids.

Squeaky cheese!

JP, TV star!!!

Comparing Scalia’s 2nd amendment stance to his habeas stance is illuminating.

Blue State’s involvement with the Obama campaign becomes mainstream news. No surprise to anyone who was paying attention.

How does “attack surface minimization” translate into the web application world?

Dammit! Now I want a mine tunnel to cellar beer in!!!

Memorial George Carlin MP3 FTW.

No troublesome journalism here, just a tour of the distillery. Good.

Postmortem?

In other news, Neal Stephenson has a new novel coming out. There goes the summer.

Two easy ways to check copyright renewal records–online at Stanford, or looking it up in a 300MB XML file.

On Symbian as a marketing disappointment.

John Biggs agrees with me: Symbian is so screwed up that Nokia will likely abandon it before its first open source release.

Chris Eng’s review of the new free SQL Injection scanning tool from HP and Microsoft.

An interesting take on the copyright renewal notice search.

I was here for this email rant. An interesting story that’s broader than Windows, broader than Microsoft.com, and broader than MovieMaker…