- Mexican border fence being built “for national security” mysteriously stops at edges of property owned by golf courses and billionaire Bush donors.
- RIP, Gary Gygax. I spent most of 1985 in your Tomb of Horrors, and I thank you for it.
- David Pogue with a brilliant medley about the music and video industry. Same video embedded below from YouTube; the link is to the TED video feed.
- Google map of presidential primaries. Gotta love a popular vote difference of 0.013%.
- Statistical data from the United Nations now available online.
- Confidential military data repeatedly sent to British tourism site. Solution: British tourism site voluntarily shuts itself down because USAF won’t stop.
- Bruce Schneier brilliantly discusses the flaws in the “transparent society” model with a review of inherent power dynamics:
You’re stopped by a police officer, who demands to see identification. Divulging your identity will give the officer enormous power over you: He or she can search police databases using the information on your ID; he or she can create a police record attached to your name; he or she can put you on this or that secret terrorist watch list. Asking to see the officer’s ID in return gives you no comparable power over him or her.