"Uncomfortably-warm space acne."

Available online (legitimately.)

Must. Find. Bootleg.

"This is the story of how that momentary success turned into one of the most sustained and costly defeats the United States has ever suffered. It is the story of how the most powerful country on Earth, sensing a pinata, swung to hit it and missed."

Introduction to monitoring protocol on OS X.

Effort, not talent.

Great pictures of the VLA.

Yes, exactly.

Not that HTML 4 needs it...

I think not; my toddler prefers the old school. (Via Cubicle17.)

Oh yes. Milk, where does it come from?

"Watch a basketball game. The odds are at least two of those people on the floor are mentally ill. Look around your house; if everybody else there seems okay, it's you."

Interesting look at WWII camouflage efforts to trick the Nazis. (Oooh! Godwin's law on my own blog!)

Eh, nevermind. Bunkum. This is why peer review is important.

Interview with Jacques Barzun, 100 years old.

Strengthening Leopard's firewall with ipfw.

It's called "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything," based on E8 math. Sweet!

Lisi's publication.

Avoid Dual_EC_DRBG at all costs.

Good (albeit short) interview with Randall Munroe of xkcd.

"The received view is that the conservative christians have taken over the Republican Party. I think the reverse happened. The right wing of the Republican Party has taken over the church."

"This is a clear violation of net neutrality: Verizon is interfering with the behavior of the DNS protocol, in order to drive traffic to its own search site."

"(S)o we'll support Xen, and Oracle on Linux, but not Oracle on Xen. Please don't think too hard about that one. It makes our heads hurt!"

It groups by app, not task. Oops.

Table of various fast food stuffs.

Take the metro, people.

"Colbert won't be one of the names in the hat, they said. He's not a registered voter in the city."

Hidden Leopard Time Machine feature. (Hidden on the client OS, that is.)

"The best part is Tom Petty looking like he's thinking, "Jesus get this guy off the stage," while George Harrison's son is giving the 'Dude! It's Prince! This is so rad!" face. I'm with George Jr.."

"A Ruby script that will read your iPhone's call log and will copy the calls into an iCal calendar of your choosing, with a description and the caller's name, if available."

Oh my, yes.

Interesting overview of the entire Delta system.

CRS report on the current situation for the US Congress.

Unsurprising, really.

Always get railroads, never utilities.

Via Conor: "Still, there is reason to be sceptical of the picture I have drawn: it implies that a secret and highly ambitious plan turned out just the way its devisers foresaw..."