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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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- ▶2009 (174)
- ▶December (5)
- ▶November (11)
- Linux Phrasebook in Russian
- Big security problems with the current way Firefox handles extensions
- SMS gateways you can use to get around high texting charges
- Why we laugh
- David Foster Wallace on what's wrong with memoirs, celebrity profiles, & academic writing
- David Foster Wallace on the impossibility of being informed & the seduction of dogma
- Ambient awareness & social media
- The Kraken botnet
- David Foster Wallace on serious vs. commercial art
- Religion, God, history, morality
- Bernie Madoff & the 1st worldwide Ponzi scheme
- ▶October (7)
- ▶September (3)
- ▶August (3)
- ▶July (17)
- Warnings about invalid security certs are ignored by users
- Girls & boys & brain chemicals
- What Google's book settlement means
- Some reasons why America hasn't been attacked since 9/11
- A beheading in Saudi Arabia
- RFID dust
- RFID security problems
- You need to know if your product is a luxury or a premium
- Huck Finn caged
- Various confidence scams, tricks, & frauds
- The future of news as shown by the 2008 election
- Cell phone viruses
- How security experts defended against Conficker
- David Foster Wallace on postmodernism & waiting for the parents to come home
- David Foster Wallace on the importance of writing within formal constraints
- David Foster Wallace on the problems with postmodern irony
- David Foster Wallace on being a tourist
- ▶June (16)
- All about freezing to death
- Stolen credit card data is cheaper than ever in the Underground
- 80% of all spam from botnets
- The light bulb con job
- Storm made $7000 each day from spam
- Quanta Crypto: cool but useless
- Famous "Laws" of Business & Technology
- What it takes to get people to comply with security policies
- Small charges on your credit card - why?
- Outline for an Unpublished Linux Textbook
- Mine fires that burn for 400 years
- 7 tools of propaganda
- How to deal with the fact that users can't learn much about security
- Could Green Dam lead to the largest botnet in history?
- Green Dam is easily exploitable
- The limitations of Windows 7 on netbooks
- ▶May (22)
- Meeting expectations, no matter how silly, in design
- The Uncanny Valley, art forgery, & love
- Taxi driver party lines
- David Foster Wallace on rock, the rise of mass media, & the generation gap
- David Foster Wallace on minimalism & metafiction
- David Foster Wallace on the familiar & the strange
- David Foster Wallace on TV, loneliness, & death
- David Foster Wallace on fiction's purpose in dark times
- Avoid toxic people
- Al Qaeda's use of social networking sites
- The watchclock knows where your night watchman is
- A better alternative to text CAPTCHAs
- A story of failed biometrics at a gym
- Now THAT is fantabulous!
- A fix for Apple Mail's inability to search Entire Message
- What dogs give us
- What's wrong with the Republicans
- Van Gogh on death
- Roger Ebert on death
- Immortality, poetically
- Interviewed for an article about mis-uses of Twitter
- Steve Jobs on mediocrity & market share
- ▶April (30)
- Newspapers are doomed
- Extreme male brains
- German twins commit the perfect crime
- Fossils are the lucky ones
- David Foster Wallace on moving mountains
- Criminal goods & service sold on the black market
- Mistakes to avoid in writing
- Some facts about GPL 2 & GPL 3
- Open source & patents
- Another huge botnet
- David Foster Wallace on leadership
- Why did Thomas Jefferson bring a stuffed moose to France?
- From Philip Larkin's "Aubade"
- The hard truths science reveals
- Totalitarian regimes adopt the trappings of religion for themselves
- 4 sources of tension between science and religion
- Intelligent Design? How about a flat earth?
- How right-wing talk radio works
- David Foster Wallace on David Lynch
- David Foster Wallace on Kafka
- A homogenized religion for America in the 21st century
- Michael Pollan's rules for food
- Microsoft Exchange is expensive
- Things to say instead of cussin'
- Things we do that are legal, yet wish to remain private
- How to increase donations on non-profit websites
- More on Google's server farms
- Why we cuss
- Google's server farm revealed
- Why David Foster Wallace used footnotes
- ▶March (24)
- Reasons Windows has a poor security architecture
- Vista & Mac OS X security features
- $9 million stolen from 130 ATM machines in 49 cities in 30 minutes
- Now that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has switched to the Web ...
- Why we can easily remember jingles but not jokes
- Social software: 5 properties & 3 dynamics
- Kids & adults use social networking sites differently
- The importance of network effects to social software
- 35% of adults have a social networking profile
- MySpace/Facebook history & sociology
- Defining social media, social software, & Web 2.0
- DRM fails utterly
- Why everyone wants a computer: socializing
- The future of TV is the Internet
- Facebook & the Dunbar number
- What passwords do people use? phpBB examples
- New Zealand's new copyright law
- A history of the negative associations of yellow
- Why do Marlboros have red tips?
- The cochineal insect's gift of red
- The conspiracy mindset
- Should states track cars with GPS?
- How the fundamentalist thinks
- Add houseplants to your home & office
- ▶February (31)
- Crazy anti-terrorism plans that worked
- Why cons work on us
- The color of the TV you watch determines the color of your dreams
- Chemically remove bad memories
- Word of the day: Sitzfleisch
- Conficker creating a new gargantuan botneth
- How easy it is to clone "unbreakable" RFID passports
- What happens to IP when it's easy to copy anything?
- CCTV in your plane's cabin?
- Give CLEAR your info, watch CLEAR lose your info
- Socioeconomic analysis of MySpace & Facebook
- US government makes unsafe RFID-laden passports even less safe through business practices
- The end of Storm
- The end of Storm?
- Three top botnets
- Largest botnet as of 2006: 1.5 M machines
- Why botnet operators do it: profit, politics, & prestige
- Srizbi, Bobax, & Storm - the rankings
- Number of bots drops 20% on Christmas
- 1/4 of all Internet computers part of a botnet?
- Prices for various services and software in the underground
- Criminals working together to improve their tools
- Wikipedia, freedom, & changes in production
- How ARP works
- Bush, rhetoric, & the exercise of power
- The Yakuza's influence in Japan
- Gottman on relationships
- ODF compared & constrasted with OOXML
- The future of security
- My new book - Google Apps Deciphered - is out!
- A single medium, with a single search engine, & a single info source
- ▶January (5)
- ▶2008 (162)
- ▶December (17)
- A one-way ticket to crazyville
- Social networking and "friendship"
- Many layers of cloud computing, or just one?
- Problems with airport security
- Business models for software
- Bruce Schneier on wholesale, constant surveillance
- Those who know how to fix know how to destroy as well
- Bruce Schneier on security & crime economics
- Bruce Schneier on identity theft
- Preserve links after a website move with mod_rewrite
- How it feels to drown, get decapitated, get electrocuted, and more
- How the Storm botnet defeats anti-virus programs
- Hallucinating the presence of the dead
- But we've always done it this way ...
- A Russian man with perfect memory
- A woman who never forgets anything
- Ted Williams' fishing story
- ▶November (75)
- Students, schools, civil rights, & the f-word
- One group files 99.9% of all complaints about TV content
- American courts and government and the f-word
- Taboo acts and language and how they work together
- Etymologies & the dictionary definitions of the f-word
- FCUK, a special trademarked logo
- Denver International Airport, home to alien reptilians enslaving children in deep dungeons
- CopyBot copies all sorts of items in Second Life
- Online criminals pay the most for bank account details
- An analysis of Google's technology, 2005
- Why people "friend" others on social networks
- Richard Stallman on why "intellectual property" is a misnomer
- Richard Stallman on proprietary software
- Richard Stallman on the 4 freedoms
- Debt collection business opens up huge security holes
- Mac OS X settings to reduce PDF sizes
- More problems with voting, election 2008
- Matthew, the blind phone phreaker
- Luddites and e-books
- Asheron's Call had no mechanism for secure trade between players
- How con artists use psychology to work
- A botnet with a contingency plan
- 1st label with more than half of sales from digital
- Why American car companies are in trouble
- The NSA and threats to privacy
- Blue for girls and pink for boys
- The importance of booze to the Pilgrims
- Chinese folklore and the colors green, white, red, yellow, and black
- George Clinton and the sample troll
- George Clinton and the sample troll
- Presidential campaigns, campaign bios, & history
- How Obama raised money in Silicon Valley & using the Net
- 50% of people infected with personality-changing brain parasites from cats
- Steve Jobs has changed 4 industries
- The purpose of the Storm botnet? To send spam
- Microsoft's programmers, evaluated by an engineer
- Offline copy protection in games
- How movies are moved around on botnets
- Money involved in adware & clicks4hire schemes
- The various participants in phishing schemes
- Earn $750,000 per month sending spam
- Rainbow Tables crack passwords
- 1st criminal case involving a botnet
- Usernames that botnets try
- The life cycle of a botnet client
- Social engineering a bank robbery
- Biometric photo watermarking using your iris
- Cloned trucks used to commit crimes
- How the Greek cell phone network was compromised
- 9 reasons the Storm botnet is different
- The Chinese Internet threat
- The latest on electronic voting machines
- Tracking children who might commit a crime later
- Craigslist "everything is free!" scams
- Cheating, security, & theft in virtual worlds and online games
- How the settlers changed America's ecology, radically
- The X Window System defined
- An analysis of splogs: spam blogs
- Lots of good info about the FBI's far-reaching wiretapping of US phone systems
- Matching voters with their votes, thanks to voting machines
- San Francisco surveillance cameras prove useless
- Synchronization attacks at fast food drive-through windows
- Serial-numbered confetti
- Trusted insiders and how to protect against them
- A collective action problem: why the cops can't talk to firemen
- A wireless router with 2 networks: 1 secure, 1 open
- Anonymity and Netflix
- If concerts bring money in for the music biz, what happens when concerts get smaller?
- China's increasing control over American dollars
- Details on the Storm & Nugache botnets
- Google PageRank explained
- Surveillance cameras don't reduce crime
- Virtual kidnappings a problem in Mexico
- Abuse of "terrorist" investigative powers
- 10,000 hours to reach expertise
- ▶October (11)
- Tim O'Reilly defines cloud computing
- Denise-ism #95
- 6 reasons why "content" has been devalued
- Thinking like an engineer; thinking like a security pro
- His employer's misconfigured laptop gets him charged with a crime
- Bush's Manicheanism destroyed him
- Denise-ism #62
- How technologies have changed politics, & how Obama uses tech
- Correcting wrong info reinforces false beliefs
- An elderly Eskimo & his unusual knife
- How to run a command repeatedly
- ▶September (10)
- Bruno's memory structures
- John Berryman's suicide note
- Interesting psychological disorders
- Why you should not run Windows as Admin
- Amazon's infrastructure and the cloud
- The rules of conspiracy
- To solve a problem, you first have to figure out the problem
- The 6 stages of political scandal
- I for one welcome our new OS overlords: Google Chrome
- Dropbox for Linux is coming soon
- ▶August (4)
- ▶July (6)
- ▶June (1)
- ▶May (3)
- ▶April (27)
- Energy-efficient washing machines
- 1/2 of all bots are in China
- Denise-ism #601
- Scott-words #17
- How Google motivates employees
- Denise-ism #37
- Why brands are declining
- Lost her ability to play piano after she regained sight
- After a stroke, he can write, but can't read
- Modern piracy on the high seas
- Language shapes thought
- A cheap, easy way to obfuscate license plates
- What actions change MAC times on a UNIX box?
- What in our brains invest memories with emotion?
- Do's and don'ts for open source software development
- Scarcities and the music, movie, and publishing businesses
- Like music, authors will make more money from personal appearances
- The Internet makes (sloppy) writers of nearly everyone
- The shift from interior to exterior lives
- People being rescued run from their rescuers
- World distance reading WiFi and RFID
- Micro-nations
- Chinese attacks on government and business networks
- The NSA's cryptographic backdoor
- Graveyard shifts and torpedo coffins
- Earliest recorded autopsy
- The Ellsberg Paradox: People prefer definites over ambiguity
- ▶March (6)
- ▶February (2)
- ▶December (17)
- ▶2007 (53)
- ▶December (1)
- ▶October (1)
- ▶September (1)
- ▶August (1)
- ▶July (9)
- How to delete stuck files on Amazon's S3
- Notes on getting into well-guarded events using social engineering
- A quick tutorial on writing a program that accepts plugins
- All stories have the same basic plots
- Find out a hard drive's UUID
- 2 New TV Interviews, Both on Cell Phones
- 2007 Summer Vacation, Day 5: 3 July 2007
- 2007 Summer Vacation, Day 4: 2 July 2007
- 2007 Summer Vacation, Day 3: 1 July 2007
- ▶June (2)
- ▶February (1)
- ▶January (37)
- Retrieve CD Key from Windows 95 or NT
- 1 Henry VI: Lucy lists Talbot's titles
- 1 Henry VI: inhearsed
- 1 Henry VI: giglot
- Talbot describes his son's valiant death
- 1 Henry VI: mickle
- 1 Henry VI: Talbot says farewell to his son
- 1 Henry VI: buckled
- 1 Henry VI: moody-mad
- 1 Henry VI: Talbot's deer metaphor
- 1 Henry VI: Talbot threatens Bourdeaux with destruction unless it capitulates
- 1 Henry VI: division in the English court
- 1 Henry VI: confutation
- 1 Henry VI: repugn
- 1 Henry VI: churlish
- 1 Henry VI: capital punishment for fighting in the king's palace
- 1 Henry VI: disanimates
- 1 Henry VI: reguerdon
- 1 Henry VI: pestiferous
- 1 Henry VI: Gloucester castigates Winchester
- 1 Henry VI: lavish tongue
- 1 Henry VI: pursuivants
- 1 Henry VI: quillets
- 1 Henry VI: misconster
- 1 Henry VI: bruited
- 1 Henry VI: subverts
- 1 Henry VI: contrarities
- 1 Henry VI: captivate
- 1 Henry VI: servitor
- 1 Henry VI: an urn ... rich-jewel'd of Darius
- 1 Henry VI: Astraea
- 1 Henry VI: an example of euphuism
- 1 Henry VI: contrived
- 1 Henry VI: espials
- 1 Henry VI: sirrah
- 1 Henry VI: contumeliously
- 1 Henry VI: Joan of Arc on glory
- ▶2006 (514)
- ▶December (10)
- Word of the day: Froschmäusekrieg
- 3 problems with electronic voting
- USA owns 74% of IPv4 addresses
- Microsoft executive sets self up for hubristic fall
- The final moment of tragedy
- Ubuntu Edgy changes to fstab
- Conversation with Robert
- Take over a computer network with an iPod or USB stick
- Spimes, objects trackable in space and time
- Russian bot herders behind massive increase in spam
- ▶November (14)
- Somehow I don't think she had
- Bad passwords for SSH
- Syrian-style torture via family connections
- More on Fordlandia
- Henry Ford's debacle in the jungle
- Clarke's three laws of prediction
- My reply to those "You sent a virus to me!" emails
- A great poetic opening to a novel
- My late May, 2004
- Best comment I've seen on New York Minute, the Olsen twins movie
- Best headline ever
- Great email sig about operating systems
- Best Denise quote ever
- Overheard at home, 20031110
- ▶October (20)
- Portable music turns life into cinema
- Average iPod has just 500 songs on it
- Great, wonderfully-designed consumer products
- Incompetent & they don't know it
- Living in a cave behind your house
- Dead five years before he was discovered
- What can we learn from Scooby-Doo?
- A little Latin
- Teach people not to want a camera, but photography itself
- Maintaining control in a subdued country
- MI5 & MI6 backgrounds
- Imagining a future of warring balloons
- The escape of Mr. Flitcraft
- 1st book written to be filmed
- The military's 8 P's
- That'll work too
- More on Slab City
- The end of days in Slab City
- Thoughts for a Lovecraftian tale
- More on memory
- ▶September (3)
- ▶August (15)
- What's a blogject?
- What is Web 2.0?
- Warning signs of an incipient serial killer
- Types of open source licenses
- A coup in Equatorial Guinea for fun
- The airplane graveyard
- How to wiretap
- Info about the Internet Archive
- The real solution to identity theft: bank liability
- Two-factor authentication: the good & the bad
- The HOLLYWOOD sign as multi-user access-control system
- When people feel secure, they're easier targets
- Examples of tweaking old technologies to add social aspects
- Clay Shirky on flaming & how to combat it
- Word of the day: creative destruction
- ▶July (128)
- Why the US toppled Chile's government
- Why the US toppled Guatamala's democratic government
- Why the US toppled Iran's government
- 14 governments the US has overthrown in 110 years
- Politics as pathology
- The neutron bomb as the most moral weapon possible
- The Cold War as game theory
- 3 English words with the most meanings
- Language & grammar types: inflected, agglutinative, & analytic
- What bots do and how they work
- Different types of Bots
- Uses of botnets
- Who runs botnets?
- An analysis of botnets
- Prescription drug spending has vastly increased in 25 years
- What patents on life has wrought
- 1980 Bayh-Dole Act created the biotech industry ... & turned universities into businesses
- What is serious news reporting?
- Neil Postman: the medium is the metaphor for the way we think
- "Have you ever been admitted to a mental institution?"
- Wal-Mart's monopsony power damages its vendors
- Antitrust suits led to vertical integration & the IT revolution
- The mirror of monopoly: monopsony ... which may be worse
- Corporate consolidation reigns in American business, & that's a problem
- AACS, next-gen encryption for DVDs
- How DVD encryption (CSS) works ... or doesn't
- Where we are technically with DRM
- Apple iTunes Music Store applies DRM after download
- To combat phishing, change browser design philosophy
- 1% create, 10% comment, 89% just use
- Open sources turns software into a service industry
- Differences between Macintosh & Unix programmers
- The first movie theater
- The day FDR was almost assassinated
- The date Silicon Valley (& Intel) was born
- Where we are now
- The origin of broadcast journalism
- DRM converts copyrights into trade secrets
- Writers take a while to attain full power
- Macaulay in 1841: copyright a tax on readers
- Macaulay in 1841 on the problems on the copyright monopoly
- The real purposes of the American school
- The birth of Geology & gradualism as a paradigm shift from catastrophism
- Why structureless is not only impossible, but counterproductive
- America the aggressive
- The differences between language in art & politics
- Why software is difficult to create ... & will always be difficult
- Paradigm shifts explained
- Ridiculous trademark and fair use stories
- The CIA's 'black sites' hide terror suspects around the world
- Just how big is YouTube?
- Origins of the interstate highway system
- What kinds of spam are effective?
- Ban USB devices or glue USB ports shut
- Favelas, the slums of Rio De Janeiro
- How to exercise your brain
- NSA spying: Project Shamrock & Echelon
- Transcendence, described by the East & West
- Religious moderates legitimize fundamentalism
- A private espionage company for businessmen
- What should one study in college as an undergraduate?
- Learn by working on hard problems
- How to start a startup
- Which is better: products or services?
- Education teaches people how to solve problems, not choose the good ones
- Business, work, and good ideas
- Patenting is hurting scientific research & progress
- Conservatives are more ruthless than liberals
- Conservatives cannot govern well; reason #1: Medicare reform
- The contradictions of conservatism
- How conservatives are like communists
- OnStar: the numbers
- The power of PR
- How to get 1 million MySpace friends
- California's wide-open educational software reveals personal info
- The feeling of being watched causes greater honesty
- Microsoft: only way to deal with malware is to wipe the computer
- Why the color-coded threat alert system fails
- A big benefit of open source: better learning & teaching
- 'Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!'
- The Piraha language of Brazil
- Checking papers does no good if the papers are forged
- America, the failed state
- How doctors measure what percentage of your body is burned
- Spy on no-good boss and lose your job
- FBI used OnStar for surveillance
- PATRIOT Act greatly expands what a 'financial institution' is
- A definition of stress
- Camouflaged weapons
- A new fraud: faking an entire company
- Some surprising data isn't encrypted in ATM transfers
- It's alright to fail at a startup when you're young
- Why big co's are bad are creating new products
- Jobs are unnecessary - just build something valuable
- It's hard to judge the young, but the market can
- The real vs. stated purpose of PowerPoint
- Why did it take so long for blogging to take off?
- Fairchild Semiconductor, 1st VC-backed startup
- Why is American design so often terrible compared to Japanese design?
- Who made money during the era of railroads
- Protective incompetence
- What successful startups need
- Spinoza's conception of God
- Neal Stephenson on being Isaac Newton
- Asian languages invent new characters
- The politics & basics of Unicode
- Media & culture's emptiness encourages cynicism
- Media-induced fear & its effects
- Another answer to "I have nothing to hide"
- Government-created viruses for surveillance
- What RFID passports really mean
- Surveillance cameras that notice aberrations
- 2 years that changed the pr0n industry
- Cultural differences between Unix and Windows
- The US is becoming less democratic
- An empire cannot be created by a republic
- Illegality practices by the US in the "War on Terror"
- America, a militarized society
- International Law in the modern world
- Wikipedia defines fascism
- Who was saved in the storming of the Bastille?
- Napoleon's losses in the invasion of Russia
- Fouche's blackmail of Napoleon
- Fouche proud of terror, expanded
- Fouche's daily list for Napoleon
- Fouche proud of terror
- Fouche praised with parallelism
- Joseph Fouche the atheist
- ▶June (88)
- My new book - Linux Phrasebook - is out!
- Japanese nuclear secrets revealed on P2P network
- 5 reasons people exaggerate risks
- India's transgendered folks
- Why no terrorist attacks since 9/11?
- Why disclosure laws are good
- Why airport security fails constantly
- L.A. police using drones to spy on citizens
- 4 ways to eavesdrop on telephone calls
- Employees willingly installed CDs handed to them by strangers
- A new way to steal from ATMs: blow 'em up
- Microsoft's BitLocker could be used for DRM
- THE answer to "if you're not doing anything wrong, why resist surveillance?"
- Exploits used for corporate espionage
- Ways different cultures view technology
- Change the AMD K8 CPU without authentication checks
- 1st 2 questions AOL tech support asks
- Quick 'n dirty explanation of onion routing
- Unix specs vs. Windows specs
- AT&T's security tv station
- DIY worm kits
- Why Microsoft is threatened by open source
- Search for Microsoft Money data files on P2P networks
- Remote fingerprinting of devices connected to the Net
- A profile of phishers & their jobs
- Spammers causing problems to DNS
- Ubuntu Hacks available now
- Do it yourself phishing kits
- Al Qaeda hijacks web server to distribute video
- Providing an opening for criminals without realizing it
- Friendster doesn't get security
- Windows directory services
- Unix vs Windows: NYC vs Celebration
- Offshoring danger: identity theft
- Evil twin hot spots
- Most PCs are rife with malware, & owners don't know it
- Cracking a wireless network in 3 minutes
- Identity theft method: file false unemployment claims
- Arrested for directory truncation
- Rainbow cracking is now a public service
- Banks have more to fear from internal attacks than external
- How virtual machines work
- Virtual-machine based rootkits
- The inventor of UNIX on its security ... or lack thereof
- The math behind Flash Worms
- An overview of Flash Worms
- Lawyers playing childish games
- Weegee at work
- The Vitruvian Triad & the Urban Triad
- Beauty and software
- Joan Didion on writing & narrative
- Prices for zombies in the Underground
- Library book returned 92 years late
- Ballmer says Windows is more secure than Linux
- Joan Didion on life in Los Angeles
- ISO definition of software quality
- Vitruvian Triad terminology
- Wynton Marsalis on recognizing your place
- Steve Ballmer couldn't fix an infected Windows PC
- Credit cards sold in the Underground
- Search for "high score" told them who stole the PC
- Hacking principles
- The origins of 2600
- It's easy to track someone using a MetroCard
- Tracking via cell phone is easy
- Kids forcibly sent to re-education programs
- Japan's 99.8% criminal conviction rate
- The way to trick smart people
- Social network analysis by the NSA
- TV signals passing through the Stone Age air
- Colonialism at its most obvious
- Lost tribe hoaxes
- How to travel to the most isolated human settlement on earth
- How to grade or judge water
- How Europeans & Americans view water
- Smallest state park in the USA
- Soviet-style society & the US
- Google's number tricks
- Why so many Google projects & betas?
- Google's data trove tempts the bad guys
- Why it's hard for prisoners to sue prison systems
- History & numbers on prison rape
- Why courts don't use legal-size documents any longer
- Newspaper readership declining
- A history of the public notice
- The Mann Act as problematic law
- Bird in Flight, Brancusi, & US Customs law
- Arnold Rothstein, criminal kingpin
- ▶May (72)
- US SSN = Canadian SIN
- iSee: online map of CCTVs in Manhattan
- In Britain, you can see footage of you captured by CCTV
- Your job? Waiting in line for others.
- The history of solitary confinement
- Alcatraz: reality & Hollywood
- The tyranny of HOAs
- Road rash, fender vaults, & root vaults
- Poems dug up from the grave
- The 80/20 rule
- Modern mercenaries
- James Jesse Strang, Mormon King of Michigan
- Posse Comitatus Act
- Henry Wirz, the Demon of Andersonville
- Number of 19c American medical schools
- A brief history of American bodysnatching
- The difficulties in establishing time of death
- Court acceptance of forensic & biometric evidence
- Gender, murder, & knots
- When newspapers began to cover trials
- Success of The Shawshank Redemption
- More movies made from Stephen King's books than anyone else
- The history of the Poison Pill
- 60% of Fortune 500 incorporated in Delaware
- Kaspar Hauser
- Word of the day: Synecdoche
- Clarabell the Clown's final - and only - words
- Notes on The Strength of Weak Ties revisited
- Failure every 30 years produces better design
- The TSA acts outside the Constitution
- 5 reasons people exaggerate risk
- The most volatile compound known to man
- Weldon Kees, polymath
- One of the benefits of LASIK eye surgery
- Matching identities across databases, anonymously
- Killer search terms
- Problems with fingerprints for authentication
- Why infosec is so hard
- Windows Metafile vulnerability
- IE unsafe 98% of the time
- Even worse spam is coming
- The Flash Worm, AKA the Warhol Worm
- A technical look at the Morris Worm of 1988
- A short explanation of moral rights in IP
- Paul Graham's lessons for startups
- Human life & wasted time
- Brin's Transparent Society explained, briefly
- Surveillance tools to detect drowning swimmers
- CCTV in the UK deters crime
- Tragedy in film
- Fundamentalism as limited reading
- From P2P to social sharing
- The value of Group-Forming Networks
- Bruce Schneier on steganography
- Good description of Fair Use & 1st Sale
- Developing nations stand up to US/UN bullying on copyright
- Copyright stupidity: arguments & numbers
- The Witty Worm was special
- What can we use instead of gasoline in cars?
- Recover sounds from the ancient world
- Flow defined
- Why are some people really good at some things?
- Word of the day: pareidolia
- Malware focused on theft above all
- Clay Shirky on why the Semantic Web will fail
- The structure & meaning of the URL as key to the Web's success
- The 1st software patent
- How patents ruined the Wright brothers
- OmniPerception = facial recognition + smart card
- Face recognition software as an example of "function creep"
- Smart World of Warcraft Trojan
- ▶April (116)
- 3000 ravers, dancing in silence
- Projecting a murdered woman's image on a building
- Gam Ze Yaavor
- Word of the day: disemvoweling
- What's a socio-technical system?
- Thoughts on tagging/folksonomy
- Bring down the cell network with SMS spam
- Subway's frequent-eater program killed because of fraud
- The difficulty of recovering from identity theft
- Israeli car theft scam
- Open source breathalyzers
- Bruce Schneier on phishing
- Laws & enforcement in virtual worlds
- The American Revolution: led by elites, sold to the masses
- A game completely controlled by the players
- Computer commands as incantations
- The Creative Class & the health & growth of cities
- A basic Japanese cultural trait
- Our reasons for giving reasons
- Magruder fools the Federals
- Jefferson Davis, the Hill Cats, & the Butcher Cats
- Beauregard's dislike for Davis
- Beauregard fools Halleck & escapes
- Troops like sugar soaked in water
- Grant's optimism
- Wearing the wrong color to a battle
- Walke describes the Battle of Island Number 10
- A burning quilt brings revenge
- The aide has to try as well
- Stonewall Jackson's respect for Sunday
- Recognizing futility
- Stanton the uber-lawyer
- Users know how to create good passwords, but they don't
- The Sumitomo Mitsuibank bank heist
- 10 early choices that helped make the Internet successful
- Early attempts to control phone usage
- Flat local calling rates in US helped grow the Net
- Monopolies & Internet innovation
- Railroads & tolls
- Turnpikes, roads, & tolls
- Canals & tolls
- How Venice protected its glassblowing industry
- Big companies & their blind spots
- Paul Graham on software patents
- Douglas Adams on information overload
- Risk compensation & homestasis
- The diamond scam
- The history of tabs (card, folder, & UI)
- Why businesses want RFID for inventory
- Arguments against the Web's ungovernability
- Security will retard innovation
- Word of the day: lucubration
- Terrorist social networks
- How terrorists use the Web
- When to use XML
- The growth in data & the problem of storage
- Number of PCs doubled from '95 to '99
- Denise-ism #92
- Pickup truck commercial
- Better in command of the enemy than a prisoner
- When to have your name in the newspapers
- Ulysses Grant & the torpedo
- Slavery & whiskey; Foote & Grant
- How he liked being tarred & feathered
- The conspirer
- Good will to everyone ... with a few exceptions
- Jefferson Davis, seeker after discord
- Jefferson Davis replies to Joseph Johnston
- Word of the day: cunctative
- Too much tail to that kite
- Lincoln's 1st political speech
- Cameraphones are different cameras & different phones
- 30 seconds to impress
- Russian anti-tank dogs
- Dead for 3 years
- The great divider
- Respecting religion
- The sky-god as origin of evil
- Familiar strangers
- Culture, values, & designing technology systems
- Nice pun #4
- The botnet hunters
- John the Ripper makes password cracking easy
- Google on the Google File System (& Linux)
- The original description of Ajax
- Google ad advice
- Embarassing email story #1056
- Bruce Schneier on what we should do
- Religion & evolution
- Phishing by altering the bank's server
- Architecture & the quality without a name
- A very brief history of programming
- Bertrand Russell on writing well
- Free markets need visibility to work
- How much does stolen identity info cost?
- Some thoughts on strong & weak social ties
- Why we don't have rights from the ground to the sky
- Identity production & sharing during adolescence
- Social capital: subcultural vs cultural
- Intel: anyone can challenge anyone
- Intel's ups and downs
- Zombie ships adrift off the shore of Africa
- Trusted Computing: security for whom? from whom?
- Thieves use Bluetooth to find laptops in cars
- Hear someone typing & know what was written
- Tracking terrorists with Unintended Information Revelation
- Unpatched Linux, 3 months; unpatched Windows, 20 minutes
- Water that uniquely identifies its owner
- Don't fly where we won't tell you not to fly
- Brandeis on openness in business, society, & government
- How to fake an anthrax scare
- Zombies from China attack Internet
- A living story, tattooed on flesh
- To counterbalance that last one
- Greatest 1st sentence of any blog post, ever
- Commanding the waves to stop
- ▶March (15)
- Global secrets are poor security
- Four principles of modernity
- Funes the Memorious, for real
- The incompetent don't know it
- How to really practice to get better
- 3500 forgotten cans
- A 4000 year old ship in the desert
- Interesting way to acquire someone's signature
- Pi to unfathomable places
- An interesting way to look at DRM
- What is a socio-technical system?
- DRM Workaround #18: HP printer cartridges
- More distribution channels = more viewers
- Did plague cause the Little Ice Age?
- Better technical security increases personal risks
- ▶February (13)
- The secret plans of Libertarians revealed
- Create web sites with PONUR
- 30 years without sleep
- A historical 'what if'
- Jans on vagueness
- Which wires match the mouse test?
- A cared-for mummy
- The last remaining Stone Age tribesmen
- Why can't we remember our early childhoods?
- Scottism #43
- Blogs as patio space
- New communication, new art forms
- Paypal's numbers
- ▶January (20)
- Wordsworth's "spots of time"
- The past, echoed now
- What would it be like to feel no pain?
- IBM tops "most patents" list in 2005
- Good instructions on creating a podcast
- The new American community: affinity vs. proximity
- Blogging at IBM
- Why people don't use firewalls
- Forced to commit suicide by brain parasites
- Night terrors
- How a 75-year-old jewel thief did it
- 1,000,000 miles in 30 days
- How actors remember their lines
- Edward R. Murrow on the business of news
- New technologies & the urge to control
- MTBU: Maximum Time to Belly Up
- My new book - Hacking Knoppix - available now
- kanso and shizen and presentations
- More validation of the Long Tail
- Risk management
- ▶December (10)
- ▶2005 (197)
- ▶December (5)
- ▶November (96)
- With the energy of tree sloths on barbituates
- Robot on the run
- Still accessible after 1000 years
- How many people die each year in the world?
- Cybercrime more profitable than drug trafficing
- Tim O'Reilly's definition of open source
- The inevitability of taxation
- Professions and clubs
- A brief history of backdoors
- The innovation of the margin
- A definition of fascism
- The late great Hungry Buddha
- Hulk, Willie, or Peter?
- Now that is one good insult
- Best entertainment news headline ever
- Dead for a while
- Sleazy books
- A library of imaginary books
- The mystery of the Voynich mss
- A repulsive jumbo shrimp
- A horrid legal conundrum
- Greetings from beyond
- More proof of time travel?
- Time travelers on the NYC subway
- Terrifica, a superhero for our times
- Greatest last line ever
- Nothing fails like excess
- Japan's shut-ins
- A programmer's poem
- Obsessed by gnomes
- Borges' animals
- Practical considerations of teleportation
- Why I stick with shih-tzus
- Scottwords #9
- Scottwords #42
- Cave or community
- The Forbes Fictional Fifteen
- Another awful poet
- Nothin' like nerdy Microsoft humor
- Denise-ism #890
- Movies in the night
- Early winter morning with my father
- The spirit of the real Texas Rangers
- Ben's crazy dream
- Incompetent people don't know it
- One of my favorite ideas: flow
- Denise-ism #65
- The strictest of teachers
- Perfect Score Achieved on Pac-Man
- Great story about Shaw
- She's a poet and don't know it
- Word of the day: aposiopesis
- A wonderful postmodern joke
- Jans clarifies it for us
- Man, I lived a lot of this
- A beautiful Indian song
- Denise-ism #631
- A man who loves his feet
- Breaking up is like a cold
- Larry's synaesthesia
- Ben contemplates fatherhood
- Ben Jones sands his floors
- Denise-ism #356
- Denise-ism #90
- Ben Jones on primal fears
- Incommunicado
- Denise-ism #234
- Great Freudian slip story
- Some anagrams of 'Scott Granneman'
- Love those pamphlet titles
- The social perils of immortality
- That poor polish sausage
- DRM ratchets up, but never quite works
- Black Friday, now Cyber Monday
- Some numbers about General Motors
- One powerful metaphor!
- Problems techies are good at solving
- Longest domain name
- Famous domain name sales
- Definitions of extranet
- Test of Flock's blog editor
- CNN's innovations & insights
- Serial killer apps
- 4 basic functions of knowledge management
- 4 kinds of eductional institutions
- The value of learned experience
- Get rid of high schools
- Learning drops quickly over time
- Number of programs installed, number used
- Most expensive computer error ever
- How much the Net will change things
- TV changes a society ... in its image
- My brother Gus and I, #12
- A museum I definitely want to visit
- 15 fundamental desires and values
- Failure vs. Losing
- ▶October (38)
- Our eye seeks the novel
- Strange mental conditions
- Symbolic sight
- Will a technology become revolutionary?
- The Little Rascals and copyright absurdity
- Movie studios and their genres
- French policians and French writers
- The French character
- Relativism in political institutions
- Lowbow vs. highbrow
- Amongst family and friends
- Unsure of himself
- The mercurial man
- Painter of kitsch ... and security
- Closed vs. open source
- Mom's spoonerisms
- You always remember your first time
- Clay Shirky's Thinking About Networks syllabus
- I did not tow your car
- Willie Nelson in New York
- Gershwin the prodigy
- Getting over it
- Tools vs. tasks
- Science, secrecy, & mysticism
- The network is central
- Feral cities of the future
- Malapropism #600
- The ACLU on monopoly control by ISPs
- 6 distinct food consumers
- Drunken sailors
- Memory memories
- Bringing up the rear
- He stopped in time
- Responsibility vs accountability
- Oh, so that's why #8
- Denise-ism #92
- Timelessness, eternity, god
- The history of =
- ▶September (15)
- What makes a great hacker?
- Cuchulain fights the ocean waves
- The printed book results in more handwritten mss
- The first printed English books
- Haber's dead wife
- Walking dead man
- Scratching an itch
- Self-sacrifice in plague time
- Absolute integrity
- How to sell your book ... 200 yrs ago
- Dalton, father of chemistry ... & meteorology
- Cringely on patents, trademarks, & copyright
- TIPpies 'n flow
- The wise ol' Texas gambler
- A new way to see commercials
- ▶July (5)
- ▶June (18)
- Short story idea #43
- A few of my own portmanteau words
- What are portmanteau words?
- The largest library fine ... ever.
- My high concept Hollywood movie
- High camp ... or horror?!?
- A CNN for security?
- Your typical phisher
- Unthinking employees
- The Queen buys an iPod
- Geeking out vs vegging out
- The difficulties of Arabic
- 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
- Articles read on 25 November 2003
- Articles read on 20 November 2003
- Demolishing time via the Net
- How to add value to information
- How willingly we fool ourselves
- ▶May (19)
- How to add menus to Radio Userland
- Tech & the humanities
- The broken-wand ceremony
- Solving the unsolvable problem
- Brian Eno on the MSFT Windows 95 sound
- Word of the day: larboard
- Edward III & the 6 worthy men of Calais
- Peter the Great's disguise
- The pinata syndrome
- Great band names, part 24
- Sinatra's footprints
- Secret movies in the Paris underground
- Measuring weight
- How many variables can we track?
- David evaluates Jans
- Why are we bad at estimating risk?
- Do you like sentences?
- A walkway of the dead
- For a mystery
- ▶April (1)
- ▶2004 (4)
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