January 2010
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Bruce Schneier Remains Unafraid →
Bruce Schneier: Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country’s way of life; it’s only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. The more we undermine our own laws, the more we convert our buildings into fortresses, the more we reduce the freedoms and liberties at the foundation of our...
Dec 30th
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford
Dec 25th
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Dec 17th
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The Stars
I love perfect alignments… you hear the train braking from the street; you bound down a deserted stairwell; departing passengers stream through every turnstile except the center; your MetroCard is accepted on first swipe; you dive through the doors before “the doors are closing” even begins to echo.
Dec 16th
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“Has anyone ever seriously made a comment such as “The new Vizio HDTV is totally...”
– Darby Lines on the rumored new Google phone
Dec 15th
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“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of...”
– Plato
Dec 12th
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“Everything we know suggests that the rapid growth in finance since 1980 has...”
– Paul Krugman on taxing high-finance bonuses I’m all for it… we make casinos pay more in taxes to help offset their supposed negative influence on society, so why not finance?
Dec 10th
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“That’s not even a gift, it’s a gift certificate.”
– Rebecca Drysdale on responding to “I’m not even here; just go about your thing.”
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Dec 5th
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“This is the difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense.”
– Wilhelm Wexler (Armin Mueller-Stahl), The International
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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“Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
– Louis Salinger (Clive Owen), The International
Dec 4th
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“Character is easier kept than recovered.”
– Wilhelm Wexler (Armin Mueller-Stahl), The International
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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“It’s he-said-she-said journalism at its finest. Security expert says Microsoft patches seem to cause fatal crashes, and Microsoft denies it! Who’s right? Hey, we’re just the press, we don’t know. You decide!” —Ed Bott, on the Windows “black screen of death” issue This is exactly what is wrong with all journalism, not just tech journalism. Political writing...
Dec 3rd
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Flash Trash
Did you know that Flash can store cookies on your computer, separate from your browser? And that these cookies are much more likely to be used for nefarious means? Not to mention they’re more difficult to delete (well, technically it’s not more difficult to delete them, just much less obvious). Another reason to dump Flash entirely (I use the excellent ClickToFlash for Safari/Webkit...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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“Word spacing eventually made possible phenomena like irony, pornography and...”
– Caleb Crain
Dec 2nd