Target Hacked – Credit Cards vs. Debit Cards
The world seems to be going crazy this morning with news that some 40 million credit cards were stolen from Target’s databases. My Twitter feed is aflame, it...
The world seems to be going crazy this morning with news that some 40 million credit cards were stolen from Target’s databases. My Twitter feed is aflame, it...
While attempting to avoid exposure to the 103º heat index the other day, I was flipping through some channels and stumbled across the campy sequel Batman Ret...
January 18th is an inauspicious day for the citizens of the District of Columbia. It marks the date of the arrest of Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr. in a drug st...
Though I don’t think construction is completed yet, the new contra-flow bike lane on 15th Street is looking pretty good. Except for the cars parking in it. ...
With the start of the flu season and the advent of a vaccine, swine flu is coming back into the spotlight. Rather than covering the pandemic itself and diss...
The roiling economy has uncomfortably squeezed the profits of various huge financial mega-corporations. As the bottom-of-the-barrel customers are no longer ...
Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has accompanied this financial meltdown, one might easily overlook or dismiss as rote the testimony before Congre...
I’m running for ANC 2F03!
Oh no! The transition from analog television to digital television is flawed, and civil rights groups are all mad! Their plan includes:
The Times is wrong. Not all Americans are hating every minute of it. Heather walked outside a few of days ago, and noted that gas was $3.99 at the BP on 13th...
I hate debit cards. With a passion. Your money is in your bank account for less time, thus earning less interest. Also, they don’t come with the same level o...
Matt over at Machination wrote a little blurb on veteran suicide rates. I was immediately suspicious as to whether the statistic of 6,256 suicides in 2005 wa...
The new Target store is open, and it seems everyone is excited about shopping there. It’s undoubtedly good news for the neighborhood, and good news for the D...
The current debate over the use of waterboarding seems new and fresh and relevant. But if working on a digital archive of historical newspapers has taught me...
Over at Wired, there’s a great little editorial on one player’s discovery of so-called terrorist tactics in Halo 3.
So, I guess there’s something going on about whether or not Clinton’s campaign left a tip after dining at a restaurant in Iowa? Whatever. Who the fuck cares?...
You’ve seen the spam. It’s some of the most insidious, and some of the most profitable. Con artists blast emails around the world touting a “hot tip” on some...
Richard Daley wins again. Not that anybody is surprised, but it is noteworthy that he will have run the city for longer than his father when he completes thi...
I am seeing a lot of exuberant posts from Democrats, or more often from anti-Republicans, around the blogotubes. After they’ve finished dancing, I hope they ...
Election day is over, and so is the recovery. Kevin Zeese lost in Maryland by a substantial margin, garnering roughly 1½% of the vote. It was sad to see so m...
There’s this guy in Bloomington, Indiana. He’s a graduate student and security researcher. He has been poking holes in the security theater our government pr...
As has been widely reported, even as far as my mother’s hometown paper and my alma mater’s local paper, the three candidates for U.S. Senate from Maryland me...
Facing a shortage of arabic translators, the military is purchasing a set of rugged Panasonic Toughbook laptops to be used for computerized English-to-Arabic...
Update:The video of the first debate has been posted.
Some scientists in the EU made some sattelite imagery available showing that the arctic ice cap had melted so much this past summer that a passageway free of...
My wife is a central staffer on the Kevin Zeese for U.S. Senate campaign. As occurred during the presedential elections two years ago, I am once again “campa...
So it’s September 11th. Five years and all that. It was a pretty terrible day, and certainly those responsible should be brought to justice. (By the way, nic...
This transcript of Ted Stevens is so funny and sad. This man with power actually thinks he has an intelligent opinion on net neutrality, yet his statements b...
Okay, this one is for my mom:
As an aside to my thoughts on seeing An Inconvenient Truth - a sort of secondary take-away from the film if you will - is how stunningly the act of campaigni...
DCist is reporting on a new advertising campaign on the Metro that encourages riders to be ever vigilant for abandoned bags and suspicious circumstances. The...
When the DC smoking ban first got pushed through, I wrote:
Computer geeks and software engineers have been saying it for years: The U.S. Patent system is totally screwed up, not in the public interest, and is going t...
Hedda and I went over to Busboys & Poets for a forum discussing the possibility of impeaching President Bush. From the BB&P events page:
As I previously blogged, I attended the Bush Impeachment Panel on this past Monday. During the question and answer section, I stood to ask a question of the ...
Lately, they have been few and far between - but sometimes there is a glimmer of hope for this country. The New York Times reports that all eight members of ...
Wired has a nice editorial on why supporters of evolution are wrong.
The DCist is mourning the death of Mayor Tony Williams’ blog. You see - and I never knew this - “a blog that goes without an update for 30 days or more is co...
The Washington Post is reporting that Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92.
Real quick, because Mike and Dawn will be here soon - If you’ve ever gotten into a discussion about politics with me, then you know that I completely agree w...
If you know anything about my sociopolitical reasonings, you know that the unsustainability of our current way of life is forefront to how I view the world. ...
Rory has an interesting post that starts with the sexuality of Lewis Carroll. Basically, he’s amazed at how sanitized much of our history and culture is.
I am absolutely thrilled to see the citizens of a city as trod upon as Washington, DC stand up against a bad deal. I don’t really care if The District gets a...
Is living your chosen way of life a basic human right? It seems obvious enough, especially if your way of life is older than most. It seems that the Inuit ar...
By official proclamation of the Royal Institute of the Ardvaark: Today is no longer Columbus Day.
How cool is this?
I read this article on the DNC news coverage from the New York Times. I was shocked to find two paragraphs devoted entirely to highlighting The Daily Show’s ...
Late last week, I had a voice mail from my theater director, friend, and mentor Marty Grubbs. He was visiting a friend only a few miles away from my new home...
From a transcript of remarks made by George W. Bush this afternoon:
Courtesy of some comments on a Slashdot post, I have just learned that Alan Turing was homosexual. To which I say, “Good for him.” According to a biography o...
I was checking out my logs to see if anybody had downloaded my Explosive Ammo Mutator, and I noticed the user agent: "NPBot (http://www.nameprotect.com/boti...
I just finished watching last night’s Daily Show, where Jon interviewed President Bush’s close friend and advisor Karen Hughes. Karen stated that she had bee...
Lawrence Lessig has once again hit the nail right on the head. He has a brilliant new piece up on Wired discussing the futility of the United States’ present...
James Avery has come up with the perfect idea for what to do with your $13.86. Donate it to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Yesterday I received a letter from Jerry W. Kilgore, the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia. It contained a check for $13.86, my payment as pa...
If you read the non-technical aspects of this blog at all, you know that I often rail against the miserable failure that is our President, and that I am very...
Wired has a good op-ed piece on the destination to which our current over-protective intellectual property laws are taking us.
The State of the Union Address by our illustrious President Bush has just ended, and I’m TiVoing the democratic response for later. Here are a few of my most...
The winners are up at bushin30seconds.org. The winning entry, entitled “Child’s Pay,” is extremely powerful and produced very well. I’m not too thrilled abou...
Saddam has been officially labled by the US Government as a POW. Last I checked, POW stood for Prisoner of War. But Mr. President, I thought the war was over...
So, yea, Microsoft is being sued again for unfair competition, and the claims in the suit seem amazingly similar to those brought by Netscape several years e...
No, not the war on terror, but the war on civil liberties. It’s nice to see that some people in power still believe in that whole silly “Bill of Rights” thing.
So they captured Saddam. He was captured “without a shot fired,” and now he will be imprisoned, tried, and probably executed for his “crimes against humanity...
There’s been a lot of hooplah over the robots.txt file published by the official White House web site. I’ve heard a few different theories from different sou...