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Programming with peoples names is tuff
Falsehoods programmers believe about names. Yeah, the simplest things can be the most difficult.
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Economics of Coal
Coal Economics. Also, if a normal person wants less pollution and a quieter neighborhood…they are now considered religious fanatics by the coal industry.
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Win your election using a MITM attack
Electronic voting has very little to do with computers as we use them today, that is, our web-sites are porous and our networks are fungible, our browsers are petri dishes for crime to grow spores in. So when using conventional networking and typical corporate policies, of course, you just design in the backdoor in plain sight. http://www.truth-out.org/print/4465 A real…
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Can We Teach Independence and Fear Simultaneously?
Good post. Bruce Schneier probably has something similar to say on a lot of these topics. Teaching our kids to be afraid of everything definitely has consequences. A lot of things we casually do – like eating while driving, are far more likely to have severe consequences than letting them walk to school. Post on…
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Carmageddon: Why cower, bite your nails and stay home?
#carmageddon as a hash-tag seems so strangely appropriate for something as mundane as a freeway closure. It doesn’t deserve any more hype than what Twitter could provide, the subject really exposes society’s relationship to inconvenience — something hardly worth celebrating to begin with. Carmageddon challenge[slate] Carmageddon coverage [slate] I think it’s great to see these…
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Eccentricity + Random Chance = Eccendipity?
Cmdln has a recent monolog up that will delight the philospher in you, exploring the notion of serendipty, and his compliment to it–the exploration of those ideas perpendicular to your interests, or even opposite them to find those intersections of wisdom or delight that help us relate to those parties normally “across the isle.”
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You want safe walking and biking routes?
Our elected congresscritters think we don’t want safe walking and biking options. http://www.peoplepoweredmovement.org/site/index.php/site/blog/3543/
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This is a great summary of the economic benefits to bicycling.
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We had a good ride on Burke Gilman (but I didn’t nap)
And Liam is getting used to his new bike, too.
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