May 15th
May 4th
April 16th
Remember after 9/11 when people predicted we’d see these sorts of attacks every few months? That never happened, and it wasn’t because the TSA confiscated knives and snow globes at airports. Give the FBI credit for rolling up terrorist networks and interdicting terrorist funding, but we also exaggerated the threat. We get our ideas about how easy it is to blow things up from television and the movies. It turns out that terrorism is much harder than most people think. It’s hard to find willing terrorists, it’s hard to put a plot together, it’s hard to get materials, and it’s hard to execute a workable plan. As a collective group, terrorists are dumb, and they make dumb mistakes; criminal masterminds are another myth from movies and comic books.
20130416 @ 0623 — The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On. Bruce Schneier is excellent as usual.
April 14th
April 11th
March 29th
The 2012 IPv4 Census. The methodology used for collecting the data is particularly interesting.
March 20th
A portrait of a woman riding an ostrich in South Africa, August 1942.
Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic
February 27th
Old but gold.
(source)
February 13th
» CANYON.MID
20130213 @ 1126 brb, playing chip’s challenge for the rest of the day.
February 11th
Netflix’s data indicated that the same subscribers who loved the original [House of Cards] also gobbled down movies starring Kevin Spacey or directed by David Fincher. Therefore, concluded Netflix executives, a remake of the BBC drama with Spacey and Fincher attached was a no-brainer.
20130211 @ 0949 — How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets, an overly alarmist title (and conclusion) for an otherwise interesting article.



