This is kind of disturbing news.

Apparently, there's a few tens of thousands of sites out there that rank high in Google (and other, I'd assume) search results that can dump quite the payload of malware on your machine.

That, in turn, helps spread more worms, viruses, trojans and spam stuff and makes the originators of the malware packages a ( Read more... )

I came across a very good speech that was quoted in my RSS feeds a day or so ago. Bonus points to you if you recognize it before you get to the credit.
All do not develop in the same manner, or at the same pace. Nations, like men, often march to the beat of different drummers, and the precise solutions of the United States can neither be dictated ( Read more... )

Many things in my life right now aren't going quite as I had planned or hoped they would. Just about all of them are career/job/finance related. Without question, there's no one to blame for that mess but myself ( Read more... )

It was a wild and crazy weekend. So much so that it deserves more focus than I can give a post written at work (especially on a Monday). Instead, I give you some news bits.

Hawking Engages Yahoo Users in Human Survival Debate
Some questions even stump Stephen Hawking ( Read more... )

There's a GM concept vehicle out there called the PAD. It looks pretty darn cool and I can come up with a number of things I could do with it.

Was turned on to this by a post from David Pescovitz on Boing Boing. He's got some links to interesting ideas.

Last night, I could very well have stayed up 'till sunrise with the conversations I was getting into online. It is things like that--offering what I can to friends during a dark time--that really make me feel good about being me. (If I thought I could make a living doing that, I most certainly would... maybe someday I will figure it out ( Read more... )

This train of thought seems to going around.

Just today on the ZDNet blog Between The Lines, David Berlind posted an article entitled Doc Searls: The net could get flushed into the telco sewer system unless WE act. Now.

That brought me, of course, to Doc Searls' actual article Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down ( Read more... )

Is it wrong to be eagerly awaiting the end of the world ( Read more... )