What I look for and care about in these various bunkers is the slice of the strange, the surprise of the Other, the witness not yet heard from, the archaeologies forgotten or ignored or despised. What I think about almost anything, from Henry Kissinger to Deng Xiaoping, from the doctrine of transubs...

Yesterday I wrote about non-malicious e-voting failure modes. In today's installment, we discuss malicious failure modes in polling place devices (tomorrow we talk about the back office). The most powerful attack is if the attacker can gain actual control of the voting machine. There has been a lot ...

#11 - "Grumble, Alone, Grumble, Polysics." (Originally Published October 24, 2007.) PART I. As you may remember from a few weeks back, I all but whizzed myself when I heard that Polysics, The Greatest Band In The World, were coming to Wisconsin for the first time ever. I instantly grabbed two ticket...

I went and was actually pretty productive today.... went to karate class and got a nice little work out in this morning :-D bought cat food and kitty litter ate Subway (yummy and had extra for dinner!)watched another disc of Heroes: Season 1 went looking for frames for the two pictures I have left t...

AAAAHHH. MY CALIFONE! IT'S BROKEN!What the hell man. Tonight it just wouldn't spin. The sound works, the light works, but it never makes the shift from "standby" to "play." I opened it up and all wires are secure and fuse is fine, etc. So I guess the motor died or something. How infuriating. And sad...

A haze still hangs over the events surrounding the first day of the RNC. What is certain: broken windows, smashed cop cars, blockades, and cops and right-wing vigilantes beaten to the ground by black-clad thugs. We took part in these events on September 1st, when at least two black blocs flooded int...

Address of Senator John F. Kennedy Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles July 15, 1960 Governor Stevenson, Senator Johnson, Mr. Butler, Senator Symington, Senator Humphrey, Speaker Rayburn, Fellow Democrats, I want to express...

Why aren’t the American media investigating the role of British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi in supplying loans to Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko? Some point to media bias, but there is another factor. Working for Auchi, who was born in Iraq, attorneys from London law firm Carter-Ruck ...

  Title: Voyages of the Dawn Chaser, Voyage 2, The Fountain of YouthCharacters: Jack, OCs Barbossa, BP crew, Gibbs , Groves and sometimes the navy. No pairings at present. Rating: Probably better be upped from gen given Jack's turn of phrase, and sometimes Elanor's too,  but no more than P...

(NB. I've been working on this piece for some time. . .thus the length and probable complete lack of coherence. . .nonetheless, here it is: + + + + + On the Religious Life Can a fish write about water? Not without extreme prejudice and some serious gratitude! What follows is just a few thoughts abou...