Category: linkblog

Arvo Pärt’s Fourth Symphony–review of the forthcoming recording from the LA premiere. Can’t wait.

Sounds like some interesting wine choices, from a region I’ve never heard of.

Quantifying the nadir of the UVA football program under Groh.

Full video of the president’s appearance on the Letterman show.

The basic issues: a retention policy with lots of room for leeway, and no automation.

Description of the basics of the standard encryption algorithm, by stick figures.

Positive unintended consequences of London’s city streets tax.

Security moves up the IT stack.

Fixes “issues browsing the iTunes store.” Not including fixing iTunes Plus and Complete My Album links–still MIA.

Farewell to Ann Hobson Pilot at the BSO. I wish I could see the premiere of the concerto John Williams wrote for her on Friday night.

Looks like classical music will be alive and well in Boston. Maybe now they’ll play some real music.

“By contrast, she said, the FCC appeared to be engaging in ‘regulatory intervention into a vibrant marketplace.'” The irony being that it’s the carriers who propose to quash innovation by discriminating based on protocols.

Using scripting additions to inject 32 bit Safari plugin code into the 64 bit Safari process. Code injection as a feature raises my eyebrows a little, but I suppose this is no different from any plugin.

Pictorial guide to replacing the battery in a VW Passat key remote.

Man, what a nasty thing this is. Someone browsing to the Curious George PBS page is just trying to entertain their kid, and then suddenly they get infected with malware.

Putting checks and balances into the PATRIOT Act, and curbing the warrantless wiretapping, is finally some real progress on the constitutional front. Yay.

You have to see the type specimens (actual size) to believe. Really incredible.

Address space randomization still not fully implemented in Snow Leopard, but data execution prevention is, and the new QuickTime should close some holes too. It’s more secure than Leopard but lacks security features present in Vista and Windows 7. Of course, it’s a smaller target than either of those OSes.

Application vulnerabilities exceed OS vulnerabilities.

Nice essay on the benefit of “list-of-n-things” style writing.

Music geek humor: the first seven notes of “Never Gonna Give You Up” encircle the temporary score — er, scaffold — around the Great Dome of MIT.

A good reminder: “Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they’re willing to work longer and harder than you are.”

Awesome DIY iPhone dock built from Lego.

Detailed walkthrough on how Apple is using HTML + CSS + Javascript in the iTunes LP format to produce Flash-like effects.

I can see this coming in handy when I rip vinyl.

Evidence that iTunes 9 content is plain ol’ gzipped HTML. I wonder what sort of XSS protection is in the iTunes Store…

Well, that’s nice. Now how about actually doing something constructive with the paper, instead of letting it wither into irrelevance?

The iTunes Plus upgrade link isn’t on the front page of the new iTunes store, but it’s still live here.

Fantastic new photos from everyone’s favorite temporarily-no-longer-endangered orbital telescope.

Getting this popup on startup? Don’t use Outlook Express? The indexing service is at fault and this shows how to fix it.

Built in ping subscription features via the cloud element in RSS, on every WordPress.com blog. Get the plugin.

Good overview of how success came out of a long string of failures for Harmonix.

A survey of economics history to try to understand why economists can’t predict that a train is about to go over a cliff.

I love this explanation for its Christianness. And I love the rabid fools in the comments section who through their lack of charity (with a capital C) make the point that some Christians need to learn the teachings of Christ.

Make sure to hit http://www.adobe.com/getflash to update your Flash player; the bundled one is out of date.

UVA alum Philippa Hughes’ arts calendar and event series just got promoted to must-visit site if you are in DC. Hat tip to Cudlin for the pointer.

Crowdsourcing tips to survive the next big California wildfire season, which is upon us.

Tom Ridge gets a chance to explain his comments on the politicization of the terror threat level system. The result kinda speaks for itself.