Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Putting the last eight years into context, putting the Iraq conflict into context and setting clear goals, refocusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any discussion?

Obama: Not buffoonish in any way!

Hey, we need the tourist $. Next, hope it passes the house.

“[In the 1940s, Mort Walker] would regularly walk into the New York offices of King Features Syndicate … and see crumpled up ‘Krazy Kat’ cartoons on the ground. They were used to absorb water from ceiling leaks, he says.”

Great. Now I want a raw bar in our Whole Foods!

Awesome wall-mounted high cabinet in a stairwell.

“A snob is someone who is so complete in himself and so satisfied with what he has that he needs nothing from anybody…That’s what Virginians do. They never push at me… They will offer me their hospitality…All I have to do is just behave reasonably

Nice VNC client. To check out.

Don’t solve all problems right away. Let them mellow.

Use sftp instead.

Using key pairs.

Actually very cool video for House of Cards.

Time to upgrade to WP 2.6.

Beautiful free calligraphic font.

Objective C and C analysis tool that lives as a plugin in Apple’s Xcode. Not just bug catching but security issue fixing (null derefs, double frees, bad pointer refs)

Automatic speech recognition and indexing for political speeches. I think Charlie is overplaying it a little but it’s a promising technology.

Substituting anonymous unique identifiers for user ids and IP addresses should be standard practice when the data goes INTO the database, kids.

On the importance of scanning for hardcoded passwords and backdoors.

Didn’t work for me. Your mileage may vary.

The strategic four reserve is at risk. Jonathan Hoefler points out this is an issue with frequency distributions…

On the to do list.

Seriously. Stop looking. And certainly don’t click this link.

Yep, that’s exactly what the Obamas do at home. The scary thing is that there are large parts of Middle America who think exactly this.

Dan Kaminsky’s DNS finding as a demonstration of responsible disclosure.

Deep profile of Obama’s years in Chicago.

Interesting to read David Byrne’s take on 12-tone pieces. Wonder what he would have thought of “Moses und Aron.”

Useful, though perhaps this should go in the Codex.

And about damned time, too. Too bad they didn’t have it done by the launch date.

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.