Fascism is Upon Us, and Other Thoughts About Our Future
We’ll start with a couple of definitions:: Those are decent, but this article at Alternet has one I prefer much more. It comes from historian…
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Racism Scopecreep in the Liberal Media
Image from edweek.org I like the New York Times; I think they produce an overall strong product. But sometimes the PC-bend is simply overwhelming. This…
A Philosophical Precipice | Daniel Miessler
As I debate with people about public health care as a specific, and about giving assistance to the weak and ignorant as a general, I…
Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB
This version adds two main features: avoids barfing if the array size is zero when appending to the query string sends the web service 25…
An Empty Existence | Daniel Miessler
Imagine you went to sleep one night and awoke to find yourself sitting at a table, on an alien space ship, with a view of…
If You’re Not Experiencing Some Failure, You’re Not Taking Enough Risk
I just came across a really interesting concept, which I’ll call “Living by Umesh”, or, being “Umeshian”–in honor of the source. A blogger by the…
Ruby: Parsing an IP List to Send to IpInfoDB
The code below does the following: Read a list of IPs Send each line (IP) to the ipinfodb web service Parse the XML result Display…
PageRank for People Rather Than URLs
This is an interesting post about how the concept of PageRank for URLs is becoming dated at best, and obsolete at worst. The idea is…
Why Your Website Needs a “Discovered Content” Section
One of the advantages of social content sharing is that if I like what you write then there’s a good chance I’ll like what you…
A Word on my Distaste for Conditional Friendship
One thing that bothers me severely is the concept of a conditional friendship. There are a few ways these come about, but the most common…
News Entertainment: The Latest Chapter of Greed and Stupidity
Sometime within the last couple months I’ve realized that CNN and Fox (and most cable news channels) have become news entertainment. The reason for this…
What’s Your Favorite Pen? | Daniel Miessler
I like pens. I’m a Moleskine fan (yeah, one of those guys), and I like having writing utensils that match the class of that surface.…