Crypto-Gram April 15, 2004
April 15, 2004 by Bruce Schneier Founder and CTO Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. schneier@schneier.com < < A free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and commentaries on security: computer and otherwise. Back issues are available at < To subscribe, visit < or send a blank message to crypto-gram-subscribe@chaparraltree.com. In this issue:
Dana Loesch
By: Dana Loesch ( Diary ) | May 21st at 11:31 PM | This was just too much. Lerner’s attorney offers this excuse as to why she’s pleading the 5th: Lerner ‘has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation,’ Taylor’s letter read, ‘but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course.’
Mark Byron No One Expects the Leftish Inquisition
My little scenerio and the critique that a lot of people left off when they quoted it has gotten the left-half of the blogosphere up in arms, as well as a few souls on the right as well. 28 comments at last count, and those are the ones that are printable; I've deleted about a like amount that were in the "You're a F-ing idiot" catagory that were either profane or had nothing constructive to say. Between advising week, two online classes with sixty papers a week to grade, my normal weekday teaching load and husbandly duties, I might not be as calm as I'd normally be. Having to read comments calling me chicken and wuss and Nazi doesn't help matters. The people that know me in person see a gentle soul, a bit klutzy as an overweight 6'5", but with a very tender heart, one that is so tender that I've had a hard time functioning in socieity most of my life. I've never owned a gun and never fired anything stronger than a BB gun. My natural responce to a fight-or-flight crisis is to flee.
The social triangle
Three great forces shape a society: culture, politics, and economics. Each of them influences the other. The late Andrew Breitbart famously observed that politics are “downstream” of culture. In other words, culture shapes political expectations. People tend to vote in favor of issues and candidates that enjoy cultural approval. Political commentators often refer to the “Overton window,” which covers the range of “acceptable” positions candidates can hold.
Eschaton
I always feel a bit uncomfortable writing about this stuff because as the manager of the advertising department it's my sworn duty to inform all potential clients that advertising here will lead them to victory. But, as editor of this place I can't be quite that evangelistic. The Chandler campaign had a lot of success with their ads. If nothing else, they got a terrific return on their advertising investment.
The Republican assault on political hate speech
The Republican assault on "political hate speech" By Brendan Nyhan November 13, 2003 Over the last two months, the Republican Party has begun a systematic effort to label attacks on President Bush by Democratic presidential candidates as "political hate speech," a new piece of political jargon intended to delegitimize criticism of Bush. It appears this strategy will expanded in the coming months -- a recent memo from Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie urged party officials to adopt the term in their rhetoric. Like "Enronomics" and "Daschlenomics", "political hate speech" is a carefully crafted term designed to create a hazy, non-logical association between two concepts. In this case, the phrase associates criticism of the president with "hate speech," which generally refers to speech that attacks others on the basis of their race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
Electric Venom Prison Guard Plays Victim
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Pathetic. That’s the only thing which runs through my mind when I read what the parents of Lynddie England – the female guard smirking in the Iraqi abuse photos – have to say on their daughter’s behalf. They liken her to Jessica Lynch, since both girls are from West Virginia, and note that the situation is “blown out of proportion” but, they say, in their daughter’s case it’s all negative.
whither whatever
I received no fewer than four less-than-savory emails from indignant southern Californians responding to my last post, which of course was the perfect inspiration for this post. When I was a kid, one of my favorite toys was a wooden puzzle of the United States. Each piece, painted in a single bright color, corresponded to one of our 50 states. I’d generally go from east to west, placing Maine first–a ritual which I think imbued me with a fascination for that state, then Florida–because that’s where my grandparents lived at the time, then fill in the rest piece by piece.
Ned Batchelder Windows themes
With all of the new laptops in my life recently, one thing I've gotten good at is changing the Display properties to get the Windows desktop to look the way I want it. The key change is to set every font (window title, message box, icon, everything) to Verdana 10. When I got all through with the changes, I saved my theme into a .theme file.
Martinis, Persistence, and a Smile March 2005 Archives
« March 2005 | Main | April 2005 » March 31, 2005 When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go At an L.A. concert by her boyfriend Cisco Adler's band Whitestarr, Kimberly Stewart (Rod's daughter) and pal Paris Hilton ducked into a stall in the ladies room, prompting an impatient woman in line to yell, "At least save some for us!" When Paris finally emerged, one bladder-bursting babe relieved herself in a sink. "You dirty b---h!"
Web (debris.com - online journal of matthew mcglynn)
Monday, February 6th, 2006 This kills me… GMail’s much-discussed, much-maligned context-targeted banner ads don’t have a lot of message text to target within my GMail account’s typically empty “Spam” mailbox, so all the ads are for Spam recipes! Spam sushi, anyone? Thursday, October 6th, 2005 One thought was unmistakably on everyone’s mind as they strolled around AT&T’s reception at Web 2.0, with a premium drink in one hand and a plate full of high-concept snacks in the other, like Gazpacho Shrimp Shooters, or Dungeoness Crab Tataki on Nori Chips, or Ahi Tuna Tartare with Ginger and Lime, or Wasabi Mashed Potatoes with Sesame Grilled Salmon, Crispy Leeks, and Black Caviar (served in a martini glass), while Zigaboo Modeliste’s Aahkesstra jammed onstage and the entertainment budget had room not only for a photographer but a flash guy to follow him around.
