Author: Tim's Bookmarks

On the Fourth Amendment and its "chilling effect" on government. Well, duh.

That ridiculous article about whether Obama wasn't fat enough to be electable, with all those interesting quotes from Hillary supporters? Turns out the reporter trolled for the quotes with a Yahoo! message board post.

It's incredible after all this research that the best medicine can tell us about colic is to teaach the baby to soothe itself.

Oh for God's sake.

Non-closure closure for the big post-9/11 mystery. If this is true, it suggests that fear itself was our worst domestic enemy after the 9/11 attacks.

Twitter had a cross site request forgery vuln.

And it's about damned time, too. Fixes both the DNS vulnerability and the AppleScript ARDAgent vulnerability, as well as a host of others. Apple: What took you so long????

Sample end-to-end .NET/WCF application

A simple personal wiki engine.

MediaWiki isn't the easiest to install wiki software out there, but it's still (for my money) the best. A quick personal setup guide for running it on a Windows XP box.

It's interesting to see the ranks start to crumble.

They’re back! And they’re unleashed on the App Store!

Why do we assume that our software is secure?

Oddly, VECO’s pipelines also look like a series of tubes.

How to rescue your torn pages and broken book covers in, well, a bunch of steps.

A profile of Tavis Smiley, who “hates blowouts”, and his cautions on Obama.

R. makes the analogy between webcomics and organic farming. Of course mass market news is the national supermarket chain! Can’t believe I didn’t make that analogy first.

What the hell is Apple thinking?

Implementation of an exploit for Dan Kaminsky’s DNS vulnerability that allows an attacker to send fake updates via a variety of mechanisms to a victim’s computer.

New collaboration from Eno and Byrne. The last thing they did together was either “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” or “Remain in Light,” depending on how you count.

A balanced review of last week’s Obama trip finds him mostly sinking 3-pointers, with John McCain throwing a lot of elbows.

So can you use the images on Wikipedia?

Charles Van Doren’s first person account of the quiz show scandal.

I guess I’ll need to read the whole thing to find out whether he goes deeper than information assymetry, into physics phenomena (stop and start traffic is like wave motion, e.g.)

I’m really sorry I wasn’t out there for any of the Carter. There’s little enough modern music programmed at Tanglewood when the TFC is in residence.

Interesting promise to make HTTP headers visible. Didn’t work for me tonight though.

Preview for next weekend’s concert–the TFC will be in performance under Sir Andrew Davis for this one.

Interesting perspective from black radio on the Democratic candidate.

Nice!! Someone needs to hook this up to the Bluetooth in late model BMWs and really take them for a drive.

“Nuked the fridge” does have a certain ring to it.

Clogging the Genius Bars so Apple customers can’t get service isn’t enlightening. It’s a sign of defeat from an organization who acts as though it has no power and no honor.

Dave is right, it’s an impressive photo (of Obama greeting the crowd in Berlin) on several levels.

BrowseRank sounds a lot like an algorithm I saw being discussed internally a few years ago. Interesting to see the proposal in daylight, as it relies on browser plugins and the cooperation of server admins rather than publicly accessible HTML documents.

Alas, Randy Pausch has given his last “Last Lecture.”

Update to yesterday’s link about vulnerable banking sites: Breezy, old, inaccurate security research considered harmful.

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.

Does the executive branch keep a massive database of illegally obtained information on dozens of individuals?

Instant Rimshot, meet Cowbell Plus, a real iPhone app that allows you to play percussion instruments by shaking the phone.

Heh. The only possible reply to TNY’s really screwed up attempt at irony. Check the fireplace.

Alas, if only I could grow tomatoes! Maybe next summer.

Helicopter over Baghdad vs. golf cart with Bush Sr: different ways to appear presidential.

Dan Kaminsky explains what to do about the DNS patch … with his niece Sarah.

According to Dan Savage, telling autistic children to “Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot” will help address the autism epidemic–leaving the question of why he was never told these things.

No values.

Well, it looks like Jimmy dodged a bullet.

An eyesore removed? We can only hope.

Um, duh. I do wonder why stories like this hit when they do.

Obama visits troops in Kuwait, makes a 3 point jumper on the first try.

Is this an early description of Dan Kaminsky’s DNS flaw?

How “flesh and blood,” a Posse Comitatus legal theory, mutated from white supremacists through other conspiracy theorists and ended up being used by inner city gang members in Baltimore.

Another Mac rumors blogger outs himself, quits medical practice.

The rise of the Poop Scoop law gets its own book treatment.

Speaking of Sloanies with interesting jobs…. (Adding Templeton Rye to the long list of beverages to try out.)

Operatic bass soloist and Blue Mass Group cofounder spearheads a classical music fundraiser for Obama.

Chutzpah.

A pretty good description of what Veracode does.

We all have lightweight OCD. An interesting collection of examples.

Merlin is right on about Remote, and my coworker swears by Pandora–guess it’s time for me to check it out too.

“i read one theory for the cause of the great vowel shift that said there may have been a lot of influential people in england with speech impediments, and we all copied them. attention linguists! more theories like this one plz”. Um, LOL.

The three laws of the public domain: 1. If it was published in the US from 1923 to 1963, it’s probably PD. 2. Unless it was affected by the restoration of foreign copyright in 1994. 3. You can’t tell if a given book is affected by #2. 3a. You’re screwed.

heh.