Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Fantastic discussion of why the TSA’s unscientific security practices fail even to protect us.

Study of reasons that black box scanners fail.

Notable socialist Warren Buffett thanks the government for intervening with the 2008 bailout.

Opting out of being X-rayed with scientific backup. Make sure to read the letter from the UCSF faculty which raises a number of important points. Until better scientific evidence about the radiation dosage from the backscatter machines is made available, nobody should be accepting the body scanner, especially breast cancer survivors and anyone with a family history of melanoma.

I think this crystallizes why I think the closed playground of the iOS is ultimately a Good Thing. God knows I have enough lengthy support calls with people in my family or friends circle to help them deal with stuff they shouldn’t have to worry about just to burn a CD.

Dave Brubeck’s unique memento of his instructor Darius Milhaud.

Shorter version: The GOP won’t meet with the president in a bipartisan summit because they can’t be bothered to prepare well enough that he won’t make them look bad.

I wonder if those saved copies of people’s backscatter-naked bodies — you know, the ones that aren’t supposed to be saved — are ending up on Lieberman’s desk?

A little something for the Christmas list: ice cube trays for Old Fashioneds.

A beautiful appreciation of a superb cocktail.

I think I need this shirt.

Another Madison County Jarrett, this one a moonshiner.

Interesting hack. I don’t know how imminent iOS 4.2 is, but this might be useful.

“…the obvious (in hindsight) answer: They looked in my iPhone’s address book. I never said they could. What else did they do with my contacts? Send a copy to their server for safe-keeping? Foolish me, but I thought that was my iPhone and my contact list. I paid huge money for the iPhone, so it’s not like it could be anyone’s “business model” to use that data. But now, as far as I know, some unknown startup in California has all my data.”

Please, my conservative friends, I beg of you: review this infographic and defend the Republican plan.

Surviving without Flash, or making otherwise Flash-laden sites serve H.264 video by faking an iOS user agent string.

Paul Bibeau updates the signs of the Antichrist for 21st century readers. Yes, reality television is invoked.

In one student’s opinion, the old song of drunken debauchery at UVA has to go.

Is it a digital computer or an analog computer? Or an analogue of a digital computer? Think carefully before answering.

One of the great late 20th century composers is lost.

Looking forward to print and some of the other features. Having the video stream to Apple TV is interesting too.

Hysterical foolishness with autocorrect.

This fix saved my bacon today.

Wait, someone who knows computer security at the FTC? Pinch me!

Worthy cause, brilliant concept — pie sale for charity.

Once again, the CD proves that its feature writers have their finger on the pulse of art and the University, by running a review of a movie that premiered over six months ago.

It’s amazing how far away some of the rhetoric against the president was from actually representing reality. On the other hand, the bed is made for the next two years and we have to lie in it now.

By “websites” they mean static web pages, apparently. Still interestingly useful.

Oddly, I feel exactly the same way about the McRib, except that I haven’t eaten one since about 1985.

I used to say that the American people get the government they deserve.

If half the people on this list win tonight, God help the American people.

What to watch as the results are rolling in.

I will miss The Rent Is 2 Damn High party.

Hysterical mashup, if a little weak at the end.

The discussion over Gustavo Dudamel’s presence or absence in LA echoes discussions about James Levine’s two jobs. We all want our conductors to be “of the community” now, apparently.

Brilliant, and timely, blog covering the start of the Civil War, 150 years later.

Relevant and interesting links to some fairly frightening and inconveniently true environmental data.