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LKM's stuff "Look, you can apply whatever weird laws you want to yourself. Personally, I have a law that states that I’m only allowed to take an even number of steps each day, and that I must eat a bag of nuts each evening[2]. But I’m not going to come to your house and tell […]

These are my links for November 5, 2009 from 22:53 to 22:53: Schneier on Security: Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer – "Remember the evil maid attack: if an attacker gets hold of your computer temporarily, he can bypass your encryption software."

A List Apart: Articles: You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners "As an industry, we haven’t done our best to make our content-rich websites suitable for learning and exploration. Learners require more from us than keywords and killer headlines. They need an environment that is narrative, interactive, and discoverable." (tags: webdesign webdevelopment design […]

A Year Later, Obama Should Start Campaigning Again "It had been 20 years since a president was elected with a majority of the popular vote and no serious debate about his Electoral College majority. While Democrats delighted in reminding Republicans that George Bush's 2000 "victory" was imposed by a Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court and that […]

U.K. 'Drugs Tsar' Gets Sack for Telling the Truth – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine "Last week British Home Secretary Alan Johnson fired University of Bristol neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt as chairman the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for failing to recognize that "his role is to advise rather than criticise." Translation: […]

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization | Media and Technology | AlterNet "When you watch Fox News Channel, what you see is the advancement of that agenda through a media organ that seeks to turn regular people against their own interests — the better to enrich the coffers of Murdoch and his heirs […]

One-handed computing with the iPhone "The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated with one hand can be used in a […]

Obama Lifts HIV Travel/Immigration Ban – Feministing "This should go a long way towards battling the seemingly ubiquitous stigma and discrimination HIV-positive people face worldwide. What a great way to end the week!" (tags: hiv aids obama travel politics) Senate Ethics Committee To Meet In New Ethics Committee Mansion | The Onion – America's Finest […]

Obama's right. It's time to stop taking Fox's skewed news seriously. – By Jacob Weisberg – Slate Magazine "Let's do a quick study of our own. Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to […]

Official Google Blog: Making search more musical "Today, we're rolling out a search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search. If you're searching for music, "time to result" is really "time to music." Now, when you enter a […]