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The Other Extreme - Low-Alcohol Beer (NYTimes)
The Times catches up to the fact that beer comes in high and low alcohol varieties. Which is not to knock the article: there's a bunch of session beers they list that I am quite curious to try.
(tags: cucina beer)

Hillary Clinton speaks at convention. The press concocts a story [...]

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 [...]

Stimulus package (Soho the Dog)
Some fairly cogent writing on the relationship between the consumer culture and the falling fortune of classical music.
(tags: music economics)

At Tanglewood, a tradition expanded with more Beethoven (Boston Globe)
“For its part, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang with impressive heft and clarity, outdoing its fine performance in Friday’s Mass in C.”
(tags: tanglewood [...]

Too Much of a Bad Thing (NYTimes)
Exceeding the credit limit on McCain's war history as an excuse for his behavior?
(tags: 2008 election mccain)

Obama Introduces Biden (TPM)
Text, video, and highlights from the VP announcement. Favorite is from the linked story: "John McCain will have trouble deciding which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at."
(tags: 2008 [...]

HKLUG Big Fans of Mini Sport City 2008
Amazing Lego recreation of the Olympics venues. 4500 minifigs!
(tags: lego china)

Joe Biden Can’t Shut Up (GQ)
Interesting long-form piece about Biden from last year.
(tags: 2008 election biden)

Jesus!! What a name! (LP Cover Lover)
Certainly a candidate for funniest album title of all time.
(tags: humor vinyl)

Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate [...]

Dashboard Comics 001: Metaphor (WPLover)
Interesting critique of the "speech bubble" treatment in the dashboard. I've always thought it's an effective way to highlight something happening in a hidden part of the interface — look over here! I have x things to show you! — but the comic is right, the metaphor is awkward.
(tags: userexperience productmanagement [...]

Delicious 2.0 is more than a pretty new face (0xDECAFBAD)
Partial release notes for new Delicious 2.0 features.
(tags: decafbad delicious yahoo)

Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix (Wired)
"I don't care how many movies are available to me. As my personal taste as a customer, I want to watch the new stuff so whether we have 10,000 [...]

In-Q-Tel as Cyber Security Tsar? Weirder Things Have Happened (Plausible Deniability)
The hypothesis is that In-Q-Tel's investment in application security technology is how we're going to get our cyber security problem addressed.
(tags: security)

The Fell Types › An history and some revival fonts
Good resource on early English type.
(tags: typography)

Black Hat part 2: Iron Chef Black Hat (Liminal States)
Fuzzing tools vs. static analysis. The false positive problems of static analysis are highlighted.
(tags: security staticanalysis)

McCain models tech policy on our oh-so-successful energy policy (Joho the Blog)
McCain: against net neutrality, pro copyright extension, all by “tweaking” the Internet infrastructure. Not a net candidate.
(tags: 2008 election mccain technology policy)

What’s Your Solar Potential? (RoofRay)
Interactive tool allows you to draw a solar array and your energy bills, then do the cost-benefit calculation.
(tags: houseblog [...]

Demo Shakedown (New York Times Blog)
Peter Holsapple talks about the difference between cutting demos for the dBs in the early 80s and doing it with ProTools today.
(tags: music)

huge and important news: free licenses upheld (Lessig Blog)
Precedent setting move that interprets “free licenses” as setting conditions on the use of copyrighted work–if you violate the conditions, [...]

One Man’s Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare Vinyl (Wired.com)
3,739 MP3s from 78s. Start grabbing ‘em before the RIAA hits him. Oddly, “Aba Daba Honeymoon” was one of the songs my Aunt Marie requested in hospice, and we couldn’t find it except on Youtube.
(tags: music vinyl download)

Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” (counternotions)
A commercial company’s [...]

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 [...]

“1 2 3 4″ Amanda covers Feist (YouTube)
Amanda Palmer meets Feist.
(tags: musicvideo amandapalmer)

Weekend Project: Increase Your Privacy with $16 DIY Window Frosting (Lifehacker)
Man. I wish we had known about this option eight years ago in our first floor apartment at Worthington Place. Those privacy screens we ended up using were dangerous.
(tags: houseblog lifehacks)

Yep (Talking [...]

The New Entrepreneur C.F.I.M.I.T.Y.M. (BusinessWeek)
The best lesson I ever learned from Ken Morse and his classes: Cash Flow Is More Important Than Your Mother.
(tags: business entrepreneurship humor)

WCF Security Guide Released (Nicholas Allen’s Indigo Blog)
What Microsoft thinks about possible security issues with WCF (and to an extent .NET by extension).
(tags: security microsoft wcf)

I Am Rich (iTunes [...]