I found this interview with Wafaa Bilal and I instinctively went to his website and spent the last 15 minutes attempting to have the paintball gun pointed away from him so he might have 15 minutes of relative peace. If only it were that easy to do for the people he represents in places like Iraq. It's an interesting social experiment, all the more ( Read more... )

"There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind."
-- Kurt Vonnegut

I particularly like this one as it speaks so succinctly and accurately to core beliefs I hold. Sometimes, it really should be just that simple.

More of a nice tribute to one of the late and great writers of our time.

I've got a couple topics swirling in my head today.

1. Why Is Swearing So *!@#% Common? - I still remember when I worked at my old place and one day I was completely exasperated by something and just said, "Fuck!" because I couldn't figure out how to fix what was going wrong. I vividly remember my co-worker putting his hand over his mouth and his ( Read more... )

The Open Mind: An interview with Milton Friedman on Economics

It's amazing that I pretty much totally agree with every damn thing this guy talks about. This has been my economic philosophy for years, but Milton Friedman has it down solid. Even though the show is old (not even in color?!), it's scary to see some of his terrible predictions have ( Read more... )

At what point did mutual disarmament become a bad idea?

U.S. Rolls Out New Nuclear Weapons PlanNot only do we need to spend a ton of money the government doesn't have, to build a new gigantic production facility, we need to ramp up our production of nuclear weapons as soon as we can! The terrorists might hide inside a mountain and we have to make ( Read more... )

Just a few tid bits because I just got home and today has been crazy in every sense of the word...

Some security: A Pretty Good Way to Foil the NSA

A good essay on computer ethics: Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere from glyf

And a tool on why you need security to not be 0wnz0rr3d: SensePost BiDiBLAH: Automated Assessment Tool

Also, tellsome and I ( Read more... )