On Social… security

Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Social authentication – harder than it looks!

This is all fair comment, but points to a deeper issue. Users thinking about Facebook security see it in terms of their own protection, and think of their ex or their rivals; Facebook also sees it in terms of its own protection, and thinks of Indonesian gangs doing industrial-scale phishing for spam. As large-scale businesses come to dominate online, the difference between “security for me” and “security for them” may get ever larger.

 

Mmm, coffee art…

P i c t u r e s: Coffee Ring Stain Portrait by Hong Yi

Malaysian artist Hong Yi created this wonderful coffee ring stain portrait of Taiwanese musician Jay Chou. This time-lapse by Hong shows the 12 hour process of making the portrait.

 

On thought provoking posts…

Life With and Without Animated Ducks: The Future Is Gender Distributed – Charlie’s Diary

You know that wonderfully, wryly apt Gibson line: “The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed”? I came across this article a few days ago, detailing several self-cleaning fabric technologies, some chemical, some using nanotech. Some safer than others. It is pretty damned awesome. And it made me think of one of the particular vectors of uneven distribution. Bear with me for a minute, this is going to seem like a tangent, but it’s not.

 

Bacon. Coffee.

Putting Coffee in Weird Things: Coffee-Bacon Gravy Eggs Benedict « Putting Weird Things in Coffee

a few days ago, a friend of mine (hi Nick) sent me a recipe for coffee-infused ham gravy. I had to give that a try, but given this blog’s ongoing quest to combine bacon with coffee, bacon seemed a better choice than ham. And what could I do with the coffee-bacon gravy? Pouring it on eggs and more bacon seemed only logical. It’s sorta the opposite of Café Benedict.

 

::sigh::

San Francisco Foreclosure Audit Elicits Predictable Responses from Securitization Mess Deniers « naked capitalism

This anecdote illustrates a point we have made here before: most borrowers fight servicer errors that are compounded into foreclosures by challenging standing. It is far more costly to dispute the banks’ accounting (it is a pitched battle to get them to divulge their records, and then the borrower must engage a forensic accountant to testify on where the errors lie). So the fact that borrowers combat foreclosures using standing rather than the real reason they are in court, that they don’t think they are in arrears, unwittingly feeds the idea that people who contest foreclosures are just gaming the system.

 

What is this… I don’t … what?

The Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu – WWdN: In Exile

Because this is too awesome not to share:

 

Food pirates!

Tree Lobsters!: #348 SHOPA

 

Is it bad that I thought of potter?

The Boy Who Played With Fusion | Popular Science

” Looking up, the neighbors watched as a small mushroom cloud rose, unsettlingly, over the Wilsons’ yard.”

Contrast, potter chapter 2:

“Rest assured, Mr. Potter,” replied Professor McGonagall, “Hogwarts is quite capable of teaching the basics. And I suspect, Mr. Potter, that if I leave you alone for two months with your schoolbooks, even without a wand, I will return to this house only to find a crater billowing purple smoke, a depopulated city surrounding it and a plague of flaming zebras terrorizing what remains of England.”

 

On competent subordinates…

Darths & Droids

Darth Vader: So the plans might be…? Nahdonnis Praji: In… in the escape pod? {beat} Nahdonnis Praji: So we should… um… Find the pod?

 

Watch. Watch this. Now. Or I shall conjure milk at thee….

JourneyQuest | The journey is… a quest!

JourneyQuest is a fantasy comedy web series from the creators of “The Gamers” and “The Gamers: Dorkness Rising”.