Familiar Faces?. The Qualifying Exam Meets the Cult of Personality. I did abysmally on Marcel's People test. How 'bout you? [MetaFilter] everyone looks the same after a while. no?

Project Gramophone. Project Gramophone is a new project that aims to become a definitive source for early recordings that slipped into the public domain. The goals are similar to Project Gutenberg, but with audio instead of text. For now, the project features a mailing list open to anyone interested in contributing to the project. [Creative […]

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Single Mac keeps company running while Windows machines fail due to Blaster worm. A great story and it belies the point that Macs do not get attacked because of their small market share. It has more to do with their better default security. And, in my opinion, it is much easier to update that applying […]

Interesting article in the NYT on some books about the history of the family and the role of children in them: A good deal of our intellectual life in the past half century has been ruled by the following pattern: First, a French person, with great brilliance and little regard for standards of evidence, promulgates […]

Activistology. American colleges and universities have for years been in the business of training students to be political activists. Participating in… [Critical Mass] if we aren't helping students to be well rounded citizens who pursue their interests then we are probably not helping them at all….

Take Web Data Analysis to the Next Level with PHP. 12 Aug 2003: A simple one-way Chi Square analysis procedure discussed in this article can be fruitfully applied to different types of data streams such as access logs, survey results, customer profiles, or customer orders. It will provide you with the hidden awareness and understanding […]

Postfix Attack. 12 Aug 2003: In this weeksSecurity Alerts, we look at problems in Postfix, DB2, stunnel, OpenSSH, up2date, eroaster, wget, xfstt, xpcd, pam-pgsql, xtokkaetama, and Half-Life. [RootPrompt.org — Nothing but Unix] time to check the mail servers, all seems good here.

(Re)Touching Reality. Greg's Digital Archive Damn, ever wonder why so many women have body issues? Here is one big reason shown in action. Its not all good when it comes to photoshop. Well its nice on the eyes, but nasty on the psyche. [Abstract Dynamics] The whole and extensive manipulation of reality is the problem, […]

You Don't Own What You've Bought. Just a sad reminder that, thanks to ridiculous software licensing practices, if you buy used equipment on eBay, you might not be able to use it. In fact, if it's from some companies like Cisco, you might want to make sure you hide it from anyone who works there. […]