Category: linkblog

It seems somehow appropriate and sad at the same time that Walter Cronkite should pass away just before the Apollo landing anniversary. One thinks he would have liked to see it again.

Poor reporting job amplifies the hoaxer message beyond balanced reporting. This is crap.

You too can be a Certified ASS (Application Security Specialist)!

Talking Points Memo points up the difference between right wing advocacy and left wing news gathering in the Sanford case.

Chris Eng breaks open the BlackBerry spyware.

The issue for this migration will be IE-only applications. This is why your staff always begged you to deploy a web app that was reliably cross browser.

Underscores the importance of information security assessments for mobile applications.

Mercy me. Maybe one day, we’ll be able to spare QA resources and engineering brainpower on something other than this old and busted browser. After all, no one supports Netscape 4 any more.

Focusing on doing The Main Thing for a product manager means: know the business, know the customers, and lead.

Great interview with my favorite Marsalis brother.

Free track from Hope Sandoval’s new album, only her fifth in about 20 years. Her last solo album came out eight years ago.

Profile of Franken that, mercifully, leads with the Stuart Smalley connection.

Digging deep into the muck around the Presidential Surveillance Program and its child programs. The sickbed visit to Ashcroft to intimidate him into authorizing a program that he knew was unconstitutional is even worse than it seemed at the time.

An ample and gracious survey of the landscape adjacent to my youth. Growing up in Newport News, you knew about the bay culture a bit if you visited Poquoson but up in the Eastern Shore you get the real thing.

Scott Rosenberg does his usual insightful job of putting (old) new technologies in perspective. “Too many blogs,” indeed–as though we were going to run out of space to put them!

Security fixes include escalation of privileges with some plugin admin screens. Go upgrade.

Originally I just thought this was a heavy handed way of leveraging a cut of DL’s revenue, but now it looks like they’re retroactively shutting down the app entirely. Why??? Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, Amazon.

Decompilation injection–routines that are only injected into the binary if it's decompiled and recompiled–as protection against IP theft.

Oh my stars and garters. Beautiful typography in WordPress just got a little closer, with this plugin that handles hyphenation, spacing control, intelligent character replacement, and special styles for special characters.

Copy and Paste, either one photo or multiple, to get full resolution goodness in email. Not so useful for forwarding pix to friends; VERY useful for emailing photos to Flickr.

The link is to an absolutely brilliant, well photographed PDF that probably just saved me a big chunk of change.

Nice little bit of 200 year old crypto.

The disagreements over which codecs will be supported in the new Video tag in HTML 5 turn out to be fairly simple, with the drawback that you need to provide files in both H.264 and Ogg formats. Gruber runs down the process.

XHTML 2 is dead. HTML 5 is going forward.

How bad was June? Pretty bad. Great infographic showing deviation from average rainfall (high), average temperature (low), and percentage of possible sunshine (0).

Thorough review and appreciation of the classic Big Star albums, with interviews with Ardent founder and engineer John Fry.

Old friend Adriel Thornton, aka Adriel Fantastique. And he’s very fantastique indeed.

Translating molecular biology and immunological concepts into computer security concepts. Kind of brilliant.

Gladwell’s review rightly points out that the cost of distribution going to free does not mean that there is no cost in the production of goods. So what happens when you follow that thought to its conclusion?

Very interesting and clever use of XSLT to translate iTunes playlists into HTML. It also works on single exported iTunes playlists rather than a whole library.

Amazing review from Tyler of a few US Maple recordings.

An illustration of Thomas Jefferson’s life. (Via Tin Man.)

So _that_’s what he was saying at the end of “Wanna Be Startin’ Something”!