Category: linkblog

Freakin’ awesome. The physics major in me is quite happy about this. Wonder what sort of revenue stream HP will see from these?

More Lancaster Mennonite family genealogy.

Contains a detailed description of the peregrinations of the Palatine Mennonites, including Benedict Brackbill.

History of the spread of the Mennonites through America, including the settlements in Lancaster County.

With support for WordPress and GEDCOM import, I’m definitely going to have to play around with this. Could be absolutely huge.

Simply the most amazing family genealogy site I’ve ever seen. Not a lot of Brackbill but a lot of Ebys and other related families.

Late 18th century tax records.

History of another Lancaster Mennonite family who married into the Brackbills.

History of the puzzling Middle Octoraro Church.

Genealogy of Uncle Milton, of candy bar fame, including not a few Brackbills.

Beautiful volume describing the early history of the town of Lancaster.

Lancaster County history, including a discussion of American Indian settlements in the area and the origins of the Pequea Creek’s name.

Historical background on the county. No direct family references on first pass.

County history, passing Brackbill references.

Good family genealogy info. A little bit about the Brackbills, mostly the families that they married into in the 19th century.

Turns out one of my second cousins is a comic book creator. The Black Coat is Revolutionary War era spy drama. Going to check it out.

This is boneheaded, pure and simple. Preventing security problems in Outlook is laudable; doing it by implementing a broke-ass HTML parser as the ONLY way to view HTML email is stupid. That’s a regression, guys.

Pretty soon, we’ll be up to our armpits in RepRaps. Talk about commoditizing markets.

More CSS graphical trickery, an oldie but a goodie.

Argh. Sucks to be in this position; my condolences to the affected staff members.

Beck starts a new project – cover an album in a day, with an assortment of guest artists. This time the project is The Velvet Underground and Nico. Sounds good so far. Interesting viral marketing campaign too: when @beck follows you on Twitter you pay attention.

The Content Security Policy proposal suggests a series of x-headers that specify allowed content domains. As the introduction points out, it needs to be implemented together with cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection, or an attacker could inject script via XSS AND whitelist it via CSRF.

Mozilla prepares to implement domain whitelisting for JavaScript. Remains to be seen whether it will be more or less effective than simply fixing XSS bugs.

How MobileMe just got a killer feature: Find My iPhone helps track down a thief.

I keep forgetting to bookmark this: Using simple CSS to make attractive buttons out of clean markup.

Argh. The Amish-Mennonite part of my soul just died a little.

Very interesting, this FTC direction. It will be interesting to see how far they go down the path of the affiliate crackdown.

Feature matrix of iPhone models and iPhone 3.0 features. Hadn’t realized that tethering wouldn’t work with the O.G. 1st gen iPhone.

Sounds like a fun recipe. I have been making jarred roasted peppers (garlic, oregano, olive oil, salt) and this would sit nicely alongside, I think.

I dig the embeddable preview feature; will have to check that out for some of the research I’m doing.

Most are not really “hidden”, but I like the unlimited apps and special characters tips.

As a beer drinker, I’m typically looking for the “other.” It’s good to hear Czechs feel the same way.

Consumer focused messaging on computer security from Janet Napolitano. Good indication of seriousness of intent, but is a little too heavily focused on patching, antivirus, and protecting “networks and systems” and not enough on securing applications.

Obama directs federal agencies to do what they should be doing already and extend benefits to partners of LGBT federal employees, also promises to seek repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and work with Congress to get equal benefits extended.

Seems like Obama’s promise to seek the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act might have come a little late for some in the LGBT community.

Fixing Donkey Kong buffer overflows allows continuing playing the game on MAME. Awesome.

A carrier settings file allows tethering without AT&T’s say-so.

“Copy and Paste This one wins the aware for the longest-time-coming iPhone feature. Just double-tap or tap-and-hold a bit of text to bring up your copy context menu, adjust the start and end points of the text you want to cut or copy, then tap the Copy/Cut button to finish the job. When you’re ready to paste, just double-tap again in an input field. If you changed your mind about a paste or cut, you can also shake to undo.”

Interesting thoughts and perspectives regarding the role of government awarded prizes in encouraging innovation in the private sector.

Mobile platforms are vulnerable. Of course, the question remains how you could get malicious code onto an iPhone to exploit via a buffer overflow.

Wynton and Branford hit the boards at the White House for a jazz clinic with young musicians. Looks like Delfeayo is there on trombone as well. Nice perk for the music.

Good way to kick off Bloomsday.

Universal Edition has a Mahler blog covering the anniversary year.

Oh my. Yes, Weird Al can still bring the parody. I always dug his “in the style of” parodies as much as specific song parodies–his take on the Police, “Velvet Elvis,” taught me not to take Sting so seriously.

SalesForce becomes a cloud computing platform, alongside Amazon and (I guess) Google. This is what recognizing a distinctive competency looks like.

Analysis of Obama’s Middle East speeches in light of subsequent events.

Sasha Frere-Jones on the new Sonic Youth album.

Well, this is big. He’ll retire with the second longest tenure of any UVA president, after Edwin Alderman. I kind of wondered if he’d hang in there to beat Alderman.

Insightful discussion of the recent shootings in the context of other right wing terrorism of the 1990s.

A dead simple tool for printing project dashboards. I used this tool when I was at my last job but forgot about it until just now.

Hard to believe that some people STILL aren’t ready.

Slightly less than funny only because of the underlying tragedy–the saga of freedom fighters from an oppressed Chinese region who have the misfortune to be in Afghanistan in October 2001, spend 8 years in Gitmo, then get expatriated to the tiny island nation of Palau…

Looks like Charlie Miller’s talk, regarding running unauthorized code on a non-jailbroken iPhone, will be the one to check out at Black Hat. At least, if his techniques still work on iPhone 3.0.

Hysterical review of the likely way the launch of Facebook Usernames will play out. Or, as Anil’s readers will forever call it, the Great Facebook Username Debacle.

Times like this, I’m glad beauty pageants are contracts and the winners can be fired for breach. Of course, Trump just created a martyr…

With Rubinstein at its helm, maybe Palm isn’t down and out yet.

First person account of the 1894 tour of the Virginia Glee Club.

Going to download RIGHT NOW.

From Chapter 3, Jaquith writes that some metrics, such as Top 10 lists, are useless because they don’t pass the “so what?” test, and relays a quotation from Reed Harrison: “The typical ‘Top 10 Ports’, ‘Top 10 Attacking IP Addresses,’ and ‘Top 10 URLs’ are really just watch lists. Our customers don’t consider them compelling metrics; they prefer to measure operational efficiency and the effectiveness of their control environment.”

MacOSX 10.6 is the first version of the OS that won’t run on PowerPC chips.

For my second career, I want to write about barbecue joints like this one, so I can eat at them.

Using a structured query language to mine Wikipedia. Nice stuff.

Slick Firebug add-in that gives a checklist of items to improve page performance.

Incident management meets security ratings.

Many features of interest, including the built-in static analysis capabilities in XCode.

Yet another ham that won’t be available in the Boston market without a lot of hunting. Who do I have to kill to get good country ham up here?

Heh. On the other hand, not heh. How many miles of “black ops utility” lines are around Tysons Corner?

The good news, and the bad news, for Ford is that it’s the only one of the Big Three to not ask for or receive government help. The better news for Ford is their products are attractive again. My dad just bought a Ford about ten years after a bad Windstar experience made him swear off their products forever.

Where the ducklings were born and where they go when they get injured.

Simple meeting structures provide the framework on which real creative work can take place.

The biggest challenge to making GM solvent is for the government to follow Obama’s lead in intervening in the carmaker’s business as little as possible. The government is now going to be the majority shareholder of GM and needs to act like it.

This is freaking amazing. Can’t wait to see what starts to show up as part of my download subscription (eMusic subscriber since about 2002).

The irony of Fiat, an Italian carmaker not without its own troubles, owning Chrysler is pretty significant, as is the irony of Chrysler rolling out of bankruptcy before GM.

Significant upgrade to Delicious Library, including a new iPhone app to be released soon.

Scott points out the obvious: if you are locking away articles behind a paywall to get revenue, you’ve automatically decreased the value of the articles relative to the rest of the web.