Tom Wise has another opinion article out on Racism and the criminal justice system. Read it on Alternet.org ———- Shopping online with a credit card should be getting safer. Inter@ctive Week has an article on Mastercard, Visa, and American Express approaches to making this stuff safe. Inter@ctive Week article
Note to self: Do not ask people to reply to more than one question per email.
Bet you thought that the Taliban would stop at desecrating the Buddist statues. Think again! Read the UN Wire article.
A Dennis Leary quote: Racism isn’t born, folks. It’s taught. I have a 2 – year old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. — Denis Leary If you believe everything you read, you better not read. — Japanese proverb We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with…
There is something about shelves. For some reason the ultimate design for a room to me is covered with the things. I even designed one room with 2 cabinet doors on each wall where one could hand paintings, but behind would of course be more shelves. I could never have enough shelving as more shelves…
I especially like the last paragraph. Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable…
“…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
Someone wrote a virus which exploits a backdoor created by the lion worm to… patch the infected system. Interesting that anti-virus “experts” are concerned about it because it does break into your system. Read the article at securitywatch.com.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams