links for 2008-07-25

Can the next administration please turn on the lights at TSA and see what the nest of vermin over there are really up to?

There’s a kind of poetry in Cary’s answer; what might have been condescending turns into a celebration of systematic thinking and absentmindedness.

Cathedral vs. bazaar? One possible benefit I can see for this is that the ability to have non-grey prose in an online encyclopedia might spur some discussion about how to liven up Wikipedia a little.

I don’t need another expensive hobby. I don’t need another expensive hobby. I don’t need another expensive hobby.

Funky16Corners hits the million visitor mark, celebrates with an hour of funky and soulful Beatles covers. Hellz yeah.

76% of all bank websites have at least one security design flaw? Wonder if that’s more or less true now than when the study was done.

100,000 people show up in Berlin waving American flags to meet a US presidential candidate. Maybe our international currency isn’t totally devalued. (Oh, and the speech? Totally inspirational.)

WordPress for iPhone is an open source project. Here’s the roadmap for the next few versions.

If you shine enough light on the motivations driving the folks who oppose gays in the military, I hope all of them put on a performance like Elaine Donnelly. What a nutjob.

A brief history of the neighborhood in which I live, through the early part of the 20th century.