Grab bag: bank disaster, elections, BusinessWeek hacked

Be careful on BusinessWeek.com.

Interesting discussion of how to get children to eat healthy: keep them in the kitchen, don’t diet in front of them, avoid “forbidden fruit.”

Just out of curiosity, how DOES an ACC team like Virginia get beaten like an old carpet by Connecticut?

New Obama ad using press coverage of McCain’s dishonest campaign against him.

Hmm, a ratings system for web applications! What a great idea!! Seriously, with a market like Facebook’s, a reputation system is a really critical thing to get in place.

As usual, trenchant observation from Gruber: “Perhaps this will refocus presidential campaign coverage on the economy rather than bullshit.”

Oh crap.

Man, the Japanese cellphone market is weird.

A surprisingly concise and cogent peom by Bob Dylan in th!s week’s New Yorker.

Katie Couric starts to get some respect, and got a killer quote from Mike Dukakis, of all people: “Look, I owe the American people an apology. If I had beaten the old man, you would never have heard of the kid and then we wouldn’t be in this mess.”

“Epic fail,” indeed.

The first official release of the Common Weakness Enumeration, a standard way of classifying and describing software flaws that may lead to security vulnerabilities.