Almost as a corollary to the previous post, we have this one…
Yoran and Spaf’s Law
In his book “Practical Unix and Internet Security,” Professor Gene Spafford of Purdue University spells out Spaf’s first principle of security administration: “If you have responsibility for security but have no authority to set rules or punish violators, your own role […]
Amen! I’ll be presenting this to the appropriate people that (currently) think security is irrelevant
Security Sounds Good, But Does It Make Me Money? (Business)
From time to time, I find myself sucked into discussions about the return on investment of security. The discussion goes something like this: from a business perspective, if security is an […]
Albert Einstein quotes and quotations - BrainyQuote
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
Finally, some intelligent campaign coverage.. ;-)
The Onion | 2004 Election Guide
Due to the increasing amount of comment spam lately comment moderation has been enabled for any post more than a week old. When posting a comment on such a post you’ll get no notification that it’s awaiting moderation other than your comment not actually appearing immediately. :) Sorry for the bother but I […]
Cory Doctorow:
Flickr users are using the “eclipse” tag to collect photos of the lunar eclipse from all over the world. Some are breathtaking.
Link
(via Waxy)
…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/28/collective_lunar_ecl.html
Cory Doctorow:
Steve Jurvetson snapped this great sign and posted it to Flickr — how the hell do they collect?
Link
…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/29/instant_death_and_a_.html
Mark Frauenfelder:
Dr. Robert M. Nelson is a NASA senior research scientist for NASA and according to Salon, an “international authority on image analysis. Currently he’s engrossed in analyzing digital photos of Saturn’s moon Titan, determining its shape, whether it contains craters or canyons.” He used Photoshop filters to outline the bugle on President Bush’s back […]
presentation on Google [WMV]
Link
…excerpt from: http://blogdex.net/route.asp?id=10569833
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Yahoo! News - Marijuana measures on 3 states’ ballots
Alaska will become the first state to make marijuana legal if voters approve a measure on Tuesday’s ballot that has drawn criticism from the Bush administration.
Apple - iPod Photo
The newest member of the iPod family, iPod Photo comes in two sizes: a 40GB model, available for $499, and a capacious 60GB model that sells for $599. Both feature a razor sharp LCD display that lets you see your photos in vivid color %u2014 65,536 colors, to be exact. And with […]
In his post The
gender profile of Wikipedia Joi ito writes
I haven’t conducted any scientific analysis or anything, but Wikipedia seems much
more gender balanced than the blogging community. I know many people point
out that ratio of men at conferences on blogging and […]
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me� well, so says the quote. But honestly, with so many conflicting claims and lies, I�ve become increasingly frustrated by my own inability to figure out what�s actually true. Whether it�s lying through omission, lying through misdirection, or outright lies, it�s awfully hard to […]
Cory Doctorow:
Windows errors on giant public billlboards are their own cult Internet photo-genre, but this is a great example of the species: an enormous Windows error dialogue-box on the towering billboard across from Toronto’s Eaton Centre. It showed up in my RSS feed of images on Flickr tagged with “Toronto.”
Link
…excerpt from: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/22/windows_error_on_gia.html
ABC News: School Says Halloween Disrespectful to Witches
A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.
A letter sent home to parents Wednesday said there will be no observance of Halloween in any of the district’s schools.
The district said Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes […]
Coffee May Raise Heart Disease Risk
Moderate Amounts Raise Inflammation and May Increase Heart Disease Risk, Says Greek Study