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Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (Wired)
It ain’t the DNS, kids. Learn the acronym BGP, and start agitating for a fix for this.
(tags: internet security)

Step By Step: Host Your Own Music Playlist with Opentape (LifeHacker)
Looks like an invitation for your own personal RIAA takedown notice.
(tags: software music)

Silverlight and Java Interoperability (InfoQ)
Interesting article highlights some of [...]

Having sung the title work, I’ve always been curious about the Glee Club’s 1972 recording A Shadow’s on the Sundial, not least because it financed their 1972 concert tour. I hadn’t been able to find any references about it other than a newspaper ad and a passing mention in Virginius Dabney’s history of the 1920s [...]

I was just wondering the other day: what happened to Technorati? Apparently they’ve been reinventing themselves as an advertising and media company. The latest step: the acquisition of Blogcritics, the open cultural criticism site for which I’ve written in the past and may do again in the future. Announcement on the Technorati Blog; coverage at [...]

There’s a brief roundup of reviews, among other things, of this weekend’s Beethoven concerts below. The reviews do a good job of pointing out something that we all felt through the residency: this was no quick dash through familiar repertoire. Both conductors brought an insistence on careful preparation and respect for the material, and I [...]