This is from the most awesome Zombify tumblog at http://zombify.tumblr.com/:


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Inspired by kylecassidy's post and beautiful shot of the Grand Canyon (go look-it's beautiful-I'll wait), I wrote this ( Read more... )

popfiend just noted:
Something that I've been noodling with in my brain, that Newsweek has expressed better than I ever could...The most important thing to understand about Facebook is that you are not Facebook's customer, you are its inventory. You are the product Facebook is selling. Facebook's real customers are advertisers. You, as a Facebook member, ( Read more... )

From Bruce Schneier, on worst case thinking in regards security:
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the predictable array of large-scale attacks: against our communications infrastructure, against the power grid, against the ( Read more... )

"PC" is an acronym for Personal Computer. It is typically used as a shorthand for (originally) IBM PC or (now) Windows-based PC. Sometimes even for any personal computer other than a Macintosh personal computer, although technically all Macintosh computers are personal computers and, thus, PCs ( Read more... )

First off, for things like this, I typically post/reblog them on tumbler: http://cyberthorn.tumblr.com/Read more... )

This is pretty damn amazing -- using your own skin as an input for devices.

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 I <3 Bruce Schneier:

The Underwear Bomber failed. And our reaction to the failed plot is failing as well, by focusing on the specifics of this made-for-a-movie plot rather than the broad threat. While our reaction is predictable, it's not going to make us safer....

...Focus on the general risk of terrorism, and not the specific threat of airplane ( Read more... )

I've got an LJ account and a Facebook account. I think I have a MySpace account, but I never go there. And I seldom keep up with Facebook, either. It takes all my energy just to keep up on my LJ friends page. Let's not even talk about Twitter. (Not there, don't know if I ever will be.) So, tell me oh readers, where are you? Why? And how the hell ( Read more... )