This is for my kind, conservative friends who reject liberalism for various reasons.…
Archives for January 2015
Anti-Science From the Left and Right
Science denial doesn’t only happen on the right. We’re seeing from…
A MITRE Quick Reference
MITRE’s mission is to make it easier to secure American infrastructure,…
When Bush Removed Saddam, Did he Create ISIS?
A couple of hard-to-argue observations: Bush removed Saddam Saddam was the force…
Avoiding GitHub’s SSH Permissions Prompt
If you’ve been using GitHub for any amount of time you may have seen the…
Our Founding Fathers Didn’t Go to Trade School
Like Reagan, the GOP is increasingly going after liberal education as superfluous…
Two Types of Free Will
What follows comes from a long-running debate with two friends on free will. We’ve…
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 3
START CONTENT There was an issue with the Marriott website that exposed reservations…
The Difference Between Love and Hate in a World Without Free Will
Many who doubt the position of free will skeptics use the issue of love and hate…
Twitter: Should You Follow Someone or Add Them to a List?
As part of my ongoing Twitter optimization, I have extracted a key optimization…
Creating a Realtime Traffic Dashboard with Google Analytics
Most know that Google Analytics is the standard for overall web stats, i.e. for…
From oh-my-zsh to Prezto
I’ve moved my zsh environment from oh-my-zsh, which is a great project,…
You Should Write Email Like the BBC Writes News Stories
The text above is from a story on the main BBC website. Notice anything interesting…
Exit Rate vs. Bounce Rate
Within the domain of web traffic analysis there are two stats that are often confused:…
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 2
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Know Your Life Metrics
In both work and life, there are few things worse than having the wrong metrics.…
Better Superlatives
The thing I dislike most about Apple is their overuse of the word, “amazing”.…
Raising Intelligence: The Most Underestimated Breakthrough
I don’t have any specific information to support this, but I think we’re…
Investing in Jamming
I wrote a while back about predicting the future as a great investment strategy.…
America Needs Small Terrorist Attacks
America desperately needs small terrorist attacks on a regular cadence. Let me…
Displaying Data with Dashing
I’ve been writing for a long time about the essential future skill of being…
If Social Media Companies Were Smart
It’s hard to predict what kind of social apps people will want in the future.…
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 1
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Infosec News Aggregation Sources
I’ve seen a lot of security news aggregators. My favorites tend to be: Twitter…
Get California Air Quality Using Ruby
Here’s a quick piece of code that will pull the air quality for any ZIP…
Auto-Optimizing Images Using Folder Actions
I’ve been trying to keep my images down in size on the site, and there are…
Life Through the Lens of Evolutionary Psychology
There are many lenses with which to look at the world—many ways to explain…
Happiness and Struggle
I just finished reading Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect for the first time in…
Science is Blurring the Body and Mind
From the Guardian: Both cytokines and inflammation have been shown to rocket during…
The Disambiguation of Blame
I’ve written recently (here) about the philosophy podcast called Very Bad…
Taking on Tamler’s Compatibilism
I wrote recently about Sam Harris appearing on Very Bad Wizards to debate free…
In The Future We’ll All Be Superheroes and Princesses
We humans are fantasy engines. Evolution, wanting to make us as successful as…
Building an IDS on CentOS using Suricata
I think I may have just switched from Snort to Suricata. ~ Me, About 40 Minutes…