Category: linkblog

Like anything else, the destruction of the Saddam statue in the center of Baghdad was a more complex act than it appeared at the time. The article shows that it wasn’t orchestrated but places heavy responsibility on the media for the distortion of what happened.

New version of the convenient one-button hack to enable AirPrint for shared printers on your Mac. Now no longer redistributes Apple files.

Short version – a different DVD navigation library gets around the Track 23 problem.

A nice trick to try the next time you’re penetration testing a website.

Not a conspiracy, just a consequence of Apple (through Akamai) optimizing for distributed DNS, and Google’s DNS servers being centralized.

Streaming via VLC and the command line.

Realtime DVD streaming from a Mac to an AppleTV.

Two hacks to stream video both ways between a Mac and an AppleTV.

Interesting tip for transmitting the entire Mac screen to an Apple TV.

The history of NORAD’s Santa tracking activities, from a typo in a Sears ad.

May have to find some of that TJ’s Tavern Ale.

Guess I know what I’ll be doing on January 6.

The irony of my using Delicious to comment on the impending closure of Delicious is not lost on me. Anyone got another recommendation for a good shared bookmarking service?

How to do an app-store-less install with iOS 4.x.

If you’ve ever commented on a Gawker media site, including Lifehacker, Jezebel or others, change your password, and change that same password if you reused it somewhere else. This article includes pointers on how to find out if you were in the data dump.

Duh. If you can buy a terabyte of storage for less than $100 and stream a movie or even download it from iTunes in less than an hour, devoting shelf space and search time to physical media is just foolish.

While parts of this article are funny, I think it also marks the turning point where a Wikileaks based humor piece points to laziness on the point of view of the author, rather than acuity.

Brilliant web design tool.

Brilliant use of tech in support of protests.

Fascinating blog offering context on top of the wikileaked cables and other revelations.

Is the Wikileaks crackdown the beginning of the Internet war?

Detailed rundown of available web fonts for setting text. Good stuff. I like Fedra, Sabon and Minion (of course).

Yes, the kids are going to be all right.

One of my coworkers on what passes for “thought leadership” in information security. Probably applies to your field, too.

The “killer carrot” — the business opportunity that draws killer apps — is a concept whose time has come. It could really have only been so relevant in the age of the app, where everyone is a developer.