Security: information, MBTA, geopolitical

Robert Kagan - Putin Makes His Move (washingtonpost.com)
Russia vs. Georgia = The return of military geopoliticism.
(tags: foreignpolicy war russia)

Surf Jacking
More Black Hat/Defcon fruit–spoofing HTTP 301/302 to force a customer to downgrade an HTTPS session for the purpose of stealing cookies.
(tags: security)

Chandler Project - Welcome
Chandler makes it to 1.0. Dreaming in code no longer?
(tags: software productivity [...]

Isaac Hayes, RIP

I was two or three years out of college when I first listened to Isaac Hayes seriously. I had picked up Shaft in college but, aside from the title track, it didn’t speak to me. I mean, flutes? Really? I just couldn’t get past the instrumentation. I knew there was something funky there but it [...]