Grab bag: Old friends, WordPress, and more

Pretty awesome tool for doing affinity maps. Look forward to trying it out.

An inspiring presentation about the state of the music business. No, not for the labels: for the artists and fans.

I’ve wondered the same thing about Google’s iPhone search results. They clearly went to a lot of trouble for the optimized look, so why wouldn’t they enable it for the most common search scenario on the iPhone?

I’m guilty of 24/7, myself.

I missed this announcement about Citigroup ending the CitiAssist loan package at Harvard, Sloan and others. CitiAssist was the best loan package at Sloan, much more responsive to interest rate changes and much more affordable than the MIT Tech Loan, which looked predatory in comparison (7+% interest rate in 2001). Sloan just got a lot more expensive.

Killer plugin for WordPress. Considering looking at it, but will wait until I can futz around with some caching plugins–not eager to take a half-second hit for each page just for hyphenation.

Very cool WordPress theme that takes off on Die Neue Tyopgraphie, Tschischold’s early sans-serif + grid manifesto.

Nasty last minute surprises from the outgoing administration.

Oops. Motrin touches the live wire. I’m surprised that no one at the agency had a clue that the baby carriers are much, much better for the back than carrying the child in your arms.

Discussion of “Angler” with the author and the book’s critics. Sounds like pretty essential reading for foes of the outgoing administration.

Interesting study of the sociology of combat troops in Afghanistan.

Delicious review of something that should go on the shelf next to my copy of Mencken’s “The American Language.”

This article is why an independent software security testing service, like that provided by Veracode, is so important. We promise not to insert /*Flawfinder: ignore*/ in your source code.

That’s my old friend Rob (also Robb) Munro, now a law intern in the North Carolina State Supreme Court and a law student at UNC — and a great photo of him and his service dog Pilaf. Way to go, Rob.