Terror Defense Based on Resilience Rather than Avoidance
America is wide open and trusting. This shouldn’t change. The idea of stopping terrorist attacks from occurring is simply asinine in this light, as it’s…
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Hitchens vs. Strunk and White
I am quite curious how top tier writers square the circle of Strunk and White’s demand for being concise and avoiding long, complex sentences, and…
Programming as a Life Skill
Perhaps the most obvious and powerful of changes in our world is the penetration of computers into our personal lives. This is penetration to the…
Why Best Buy is Gradually Going out of Business | Forbes
The reasons for the company’s dwindling prospects are easy to find. Just walk into one of the company’s retail locations or shop online. And try,…
Mandatory States for Human Happiness
I’ve been thinking recently about what states of being are required for optimum health. A few things bring this on: 1) Paul Graham’s writing on…
An HTML 5 Christmas | Daniel Miessler
It’s Christmas day and I just happened upon a post by the Google Webmaster team talking about removing the HTML, HEAD, and BODY tags from…
3 Trends for an Advancing Human Civilization
One of my favorite things about true learning is that it magnifies itself. True understanding doesn’t just teach you about the topic at hand, it…
A Collection (of Collections) of Obama’s Accomplishments
This next year is going to yield many debates on what our current President has or has not accomplished in his first term. Here’s a…
Why Christopher Hitchens Inspires Me
News of Christopher Hitchens’ death was crushing to me last night. I can think of no other author that is so inspiring to me. Here…
Observations of Japan | Daniel Miessler
I had the opportunity to go to Tokyo, Japan for a week this month for work and while there I kept a running list of…
Who Makes the Best Web Security Testers?
There’s been some debate in my circles recently on the topic of what type of person and background makes the best web security tester. The…
Plane Crashes and Child Molestation
In one of Malcolm Gladwell’s books he talked about how respect for authority has caused a massive number of plane crashes over time. Basically, the…