Category: linkblog

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.

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.