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The Media Is Already Setting Up Their Alibi!

Have anyone noticed how the media talking heads are now asking the question whether the rhetoric is getting to heated and is racially motivated and where is all this anger coming from in reference to the so called health care debate.

Twitter hack raises flags on security of web tools
Source: The New York Times

Hacks breached a Twitter employee's email account exposing Twitter corporate information.

Twitter profile hack pwns Mormons
Source: The Register (UK)

Microblogging Mormons are up in arms after the Twitter account of the Church of Latter Day Saints was hijacked by pranksters.

Open Security Foundation Spots Giant Hacks by Combing Small Newspapers
Source: Wired News

Open Security Foundation--a volunteer group--detecting and reporting major security breeches in banking. Hats off to the volunteers that do this good work (and why does it need to be done by volunteers???)

Strange tale of the missing horse tails
Source: The Orlando Sentinel

ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. -- The horses at Tom Johnson and Jim Hoff's place once had tails that hung down to their hooves. Shampooed and combed, their flaxen color gleamed when the Belgian draft horses drew wagons for children and pranced in parades.

Some Reporters Still In Love With Obama - One Escorted Out of White House After Asking For Autograph
Source: Politico

A reporter was escorted out of a White House event by Secret Service agents on Wednesday afternoon after he approached President Obama to seek an autograph.

10 really cool Google Chrome hacks
Source: TechRadar: All Phone and communications feeds

The range of useful modifications that you can make to get Chrome just how you want it is extremely diverse – made all the more expressive by its blindingly fast V8 JavaScript engine.

American Express web bug exposes card holders
Source: The Register (UK)

Decided to forgo the paper-based billing? Surfing American Express site for new card products? Hmmmm. After all that cash spent on third-party security providers and writing code...

Caylee Anthony – Blogger News Radio On Sun Dec/7 3PM CST
Source: bloggernews.net

Excerpt: Yes folks, we are going to do another talk show on the Caylee Anthony story, but this will be a show with a twist. Jan and I have been working hard and have found a mystery guest for the show.

Anthonys Have Yet To Report Email Hacking Claims To Police
Source: WFTV

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Cindy Anthony and her private investigator Tuesday had still not reported their claims that someone hacked into her email account and sent unauthorized messages to Eyewitness News and other people.

Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked
Source: PC World

Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.

Your Mind is On Vacation and Your Mouth is Working Overtime
Source: thealders.net

For all the right wing hacks who simply repeat false talking points (or create them)

8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
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8 hacks which can make Firefox even faster!

Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
Source: Wired News

Viruses intended to steal passwords and send them to a remote server infected laptops in the Iss_laptopsInternational Space Station in July, NASA confirmed Tuesday. And according to NASA, this wasn't the first infection.

How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don't need it
Source: Slate

To find out, I did what I normally do when I'm trying to save $60: I Googled. Eventually I came upon a note on FixYourOwnPrinter.com posted by a fellow calling himself OppressedPrinterUser.

MIT Hacks Gallery
Source: MIT

Some of you may know that I've been having a really hard time recently, and I know I'm not alone.

Did your WordPress site get hacked?
Source: Holy Shmoly!

Remember a few weeks ago there was all that noise about WordPress blogs getting hacked? Remember how everyone was urged to upgrade their blogs. You did upgrade didn't you? No? It was inevitable that you'd be hacked.

On being a writer and an artist — a response

You know what I'm talking about, even though you pretend that you dont.

Phishing with Ease
Source: EW.com

Billy Rios and Nitesh Dhanjani spoke about phishing today at the computer-security conference Black Hat 2008, in Washington, DC.

With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control'
Source: Wired News

Buying an iPhone isn't the same as buying a car or a toaster. Your iPhone comes with a complicated list of rules about what you can and can't do with it. You can't install unapproved third-party applications on it.

Top Best 50 Blogger & Wordpress Customizations Tips ( Hacks )
Source: emmaalvarez.com

Sometimes we like a template, but we would like to change some things. Or to add some things that are not present. This changes are called "hacks", and they make that our blog fulfills all our needs, and that it becomes unique.

Reader's Digress: Reflections (Projections?) On Screens
Source: readers-digress.blogspot.com

Happily for me Salon just keeps on giving. The review is for "What Happens Next: A History of American Screen Writing" by Marc Norman. More interesting than the book itself are the reflections offered by Laura Miller. In particular:

Building Your Own High-Tech Bug
Source: The New York Times

Are you ready to build your own high-tech gadget?

Outlook: How To Delete Duplicated Contacts
Source: Tech recipes

Sometimes syncing Outlook with another application or device can result in the addition of a duplicated list of contacts. Removing this list can be quite cumbersome if you take the time to delete each one, especially if you have collected a large number of addresses and such.

WIFI Antenna Hack!
Source: viddler.com

John this hack is for you in case you never went and bought that high gain wifi antenna. :)

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