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Math is hard
TSA news roundup from Bruce Schneier
Bruce has done a fantastic job summarizing the backlash to the TSA’s plan to take naked pictures of and/or molest you as a precondition of boarding an airplane: There’s humour, outrage, and just a wee bit o’ corruption: Michael Chertoff, former Department of Homeland Security secretary, has been touting the full-body scanners, while at the …
MediaTemple is bad at security
Using Google refine to produce a list of Ontario’s private schools
Last week, I excitedly read the announcement and watched the screencasts of Google Refine 2.0. Today, I used it to transform this hot mess of HTML: Into this structured data goodness:
Taiwanese news explains the TSA
Oh John McCain, make it stop
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c It Gets Worse PSA www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity
Richard Feynman on “Why” questions
What to do with $11M
Give it away: They took care of family first and then began delivering donations to the two pages’ worth of groups they had decided on, including the local fire department, churches, cemeteries, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, hospitals in Truro and Halifax, where Violet underwent her cancer treatment, and organizations that fight cancer, Alzheimer’s …
Good news, Canadian style
Jim Prentice, former industry minister and suckup to american media companies — he authored the horrid copyright “reform” bill — has resigned: “I am closing the door on political life,” he said, stressing his support for Mr. Harper and the party. “I have completed that tour of duty.”