Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Other reasons to feel angstful about next week’s election: the level of thuggery is rapidly escalating in advance of the putative putsch.

Reasons that I have a stomachache going into this election, #1. Tea Partiers, why not just admit that you hate poor people and nonwhites and stop hiding behind false rationales?

Tips and tricks for an app that lets you use your iOS device as a mouse/remote control.

A lengthy article about “cyber security” that fails to mention the risk posed by lack of controls on the application supply chain.

A loving tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. I count myself lucky to have been on the same stage with her in 2006, singing the Gurrelieder.

Civil rights history in the making.

Nice that there is occasionally some sanity.

Nicely balanced take on the difference between white hat hacking and other kinds. Interviews Chris Wysopal of Veracode.

“You’re telling me that (the establishment clause) is in the First Amendment?” –Christine O’Donnell, dumbfounded that the principle of separation of church and state is enshrined in the Constitution. Delaware, your candidate for Senator.

The Rent is 2 Damn High! If you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you! And I thought the sideshow was bad in Massachusetts.

Nice performance from a Manu Katché and guests show.

An incredibly detailed and visual reminiscence of Mandelbrot the man and the math.

So long, grand old man of fractals. You’ve made the world an infinitely more fascinating place.

Awesome: Automatic hefeweizen pouring robot! Prost!

Discussion of possible approaches for detecting CSRF through static analysis.

Raiders of the Lost Data Center, anyone?

“Microsoft is the new Wang.”

Risotto + pesto FTW. Think this might be a Thanksgiving option with the pesto I froze in September.

The inevitable “based on a true story” movie just got its angle.

A little Mac automation with an iPhone control panel sounds good to me, provided he explains how to lock it down to keep it from being accessed by other users.

More technical debt discussion. Translation for startups: laser like focus on small feature sets may be a better bet than developing a comprehensive offering.

Copyright killed the audio star.

This is the president I voted for.

The Map of Online Communities has been updated. Incredible work.

A failure to adequately threat monitor or test means that DC will not be doing electronic ballot return. On the plus side, they were smart enough to ask people to try to hack the system before they rolled it to production.

Brilliant proposal.

I suppose, in this world, we all pick our most threatening bugaboos. The insanity of the militias and related groups described in this article is the one that I think is most likely to cause real damage.

The craziness of this country right now is that no one dare take this good news on the campaign trail.

Nice writeup of the Igs in the MIT student newspaper.

Hoder escapes a death sentence but gets a severe penalty for speaking freely.

I somehow missed this: Windows Live is being migrated to WordPress.com. And their numbers aren’t that hot for a blogging platform: about 300,000 live blogs, or about 250,000 that aren’t done by employees out of Redmond.

The developer’s view to feature selection, or why some good features die when sites scale. Brilliant.

It’s Asteroids! On any web page! And you can shoot at parts of the page! Paranoid folks note: Noscript will ask if you want to whitelist all of github.com if you want to run the Javascript on the page, which is probably not the smartest thing to do.

Incredible writeup. Detroit has become Bellona, the ghost city in the heart of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren.