Really basic web defense

Yes, your browser is under attack and dark forces want to know which sites you visit and what you click. One thing going on is user tracking via cookies – bits of identifying stuff left on your computer as you browse. There’s no keeping up with all the various schemes used by major sites like [...]

Higher Education (Look Around You)

The Ascension, or Six Hundred Days In Her Life

Tonight’s stir fry (chicken and veg, fairly bland thrown-together sauce of: non-fiery “fiery sauce” + non-spicy “spicy habanero sauce” + soy sauce (the only reliable sauce in there!) Yakisoba (lightly fried thin noodles) not shown. I found this chocolate bunny which apparently honors the character Charles Foster Kane. Admirable!

YOU WANT UKELELE, GI?

I saw these guys sometime in 1997 or so at the southeast corner of Shinjuku train station, in the tunnel on the way to Takashimaya department store. They laughed at me when I bought a CD but all was just fine. It does my heart good to see them still making music!

Common / people

Possibly funny enough to wound or kill. Common / people (YouTube)

Scandinavian Headlines

Police get a grip on serial masturbator Clearly I’ve been reading “The Local” – a website in English about Sweden. Enjoyable: “manual labor” “feeling his way around” “holding his own” There’re a lot of other interesting headlines about Sweden, too: Lesbian compensated for prevented puppy purchase Children banned from wearing multi-coloured clothes Viking women had [...]

The austerity of height

“The austerity of height shamed back the vulgar baggage of our cares. In the place of consequence it set freedom, power to be alone, to slip the escort of our manufactured selves; a rest and forgetfulness of the chains of being.” -T.E. Lawrence

The Hell Is “Qat” ?

Is Qat something like Khat or Quat? Isn’t that a drug ingested for a stimulant effect? If no one knows from first hand knowledge, maybe we can look it up!

Farting 2008: Qualitative, Global, Rising?

There is little doubt that continued research around issues of flatus is poised to bear unusually productive fruit in the newly-sprung year. From the Bilbao School’s creeping renaissance in statistical modeling to the sharp blasts of iconoclastic reappraisal of sheer number crunching from Russian sources, the internationalization of interest in the field is no longer [...]

Extreme Decision 2008 – Primaries

So what about the candidates? Not an attempt to persuade, rather an unhelpful blathering of dropped from a helicopter on a snowboard-, restauranteur pioneer of Pripyat, Ukraine-style observations of their current standing. In other words, more of what you see on TV, only bloggy-style: Obama: Speaks very well, in line with values of many, yet [...]

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