Heineman: (scrolling through his iTunes) So I've got some Conway Twitty, Hank Williams Jr *and* Sr, some John Denver...
Me: wait a minute... was that Snoop Dogg?
Heineman: Why yes it was. To be honest I didn't listen to any of that before coming to SPI, but, you know, I like the beat!
Me: ... are you serious?
Heineman: yeah, but I have no idea what he is saying. Every now and then I catch a word like "shit" or "booty" but that's all

This is interesting - it seems that a group of artists have celebrated 1-31-07 in their own way and have created a series of political themed LED art sculptures and (you guessed it) placed them all over Boston.

I love this note:

This is not a bomb. It is just for lulz

MAKE: Blog: LED art all over Boston today

Apparently Symantec has thinks Jikto is a virus. Odd it doesn't care about Samy, Zanga, Adultspace, MySpace+Quicktime, XSS-Proxy, JS/Wonka, JS/Random, or the 15 other pieces of JavaScript malware I have on my box. In fact, Yamanner is the only other thing I have to store in ROT13 to prevent the AV from eatting it.

I wonder if DOMinatrix is next.

HOST: I’m curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.

I am totally calling it "The Google" for now on.

Think Progress » Bush says he uses “the Google.”

However, it is possible to compare a Toyota Camry Hybrid to a "regular Camry."

The Camry Hybrid is powered by a 4-cylinder engine, but for comparison purposes, Toyota spokesman John McCandless claims that, "if you take into account the equipment level of the Camry Hybrid -- and that it has the performance of a V-6 -- the best apples-to-apples comparison is to compare the hybrid to a V-6 Camry LE. Those base prices are less than $2,000 apart -- $23,640 for the Camry V6 LE, vs. $25,000 for the Hybrid."

Toyota reports that the Camry Hybrid's fuel economy rating is 33 mpg city/34 mpg highway. Meanwhile, the Camry V6 gets 21/31 mpg, city/hwy.

For purposes of comparison, McCandless used a combined fuel economy rating, splitting the difference between highway and city mileage.

"So if you drive 15,000 miles a year, and you buy the Hybrid version, you'll be using about 454 gallons a year," says McCandless. "Meanwhile, if you get the V6 LE, you'll be burning 635 gallons a year. At $3.20 a gallon, that's a fuel-cost saving of about $547 a year. So it should take you three or four years to recoup the up-front premium you paid to buy the Hybrid. Plus, you get the satisfaction that you are easing the emission imprint on the planet."

I purchased a 2008 Camry hybrid in December and I love it. Metallic blue paint, leather, alloy wheels, navigation system, voice commands, Bluetooth phone connection, killer sound system, and awesome gas mileage. I'm averaging about 35 miles a gallon and getting around 475 miles to the tank! It has the same footprint as a normal Camry, though the truck is about 2/3's the size because thats where the batteries are located. The car is alot more responsive than a Prius is, and all of the controls are not driven by the touch screen.

I didn't go out looking for a hybrid either. Having a sexy wife with a masters in Mechanical Engineering changes you car buying experience thats for sure. She could throw down on gearing ratios and torque with the best of them! First I looked for any cars with the highest safety ratings from the government and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Next I looked for cars that got greater than 30 MPG. That weeded the field down a bunch. After that, I looked for something that wasn't hideous, and had options that I wanted (leather seats, good sound system, and a navigation system). The Camry Hybrid was one of the only cars that fit that bill!

All and all I am extremely happy with my Camry and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a new car.

I (heart) Huckebees (as well as my Camry Hybrid)

-Ray has concerns that this is risky because it is more like a waterfall process. Kevin indicated that we will hybridize the waterfall and agile approaches by wrapping the sprints with up-front JADing to create functional specification(s) and with stabilization at the end. This is like a scrum sandwich. Or as someone cleverly pointed out waterscrumfall. (I’m just trying to see if anyone actually reads these things word for word).

-Kevin asked me to type up the meeting note because I did such a good job of it yesterday. I’m pretty sure he just didn’t want to type it himself.

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: blog.oreilly.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:26:19 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://blogs.oreilly.comdev/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Length: 305

comdev? WTF? Perhaps an internal staging server?

Does anyone here read Vietnamese?

Very simple: chi can up 5 file (index.html va 4 file .php) len 1 host support php
Vao trinh duyet, mo duong dan toi file index.html
Cach khai thac loi thi xem nhu trong video demo

========================================
Uu diem:
- Code run tren host, nen Victim site se ko the biet IP cua may minh khi minh xploit
- Co the xploit moi luc moi noi. Chi can google tim link victim va run code da up san tren host cua minh
- Toc do xploit cuc nhanh
- Co the query mot luc so luong lon CC (hang chuc ngan cung ok)

This is the readme file for a PHP based SQL injector that's part of a sploit kit.

Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality. How might one do this?

Well, here's one idea.

1. Get a friend of yours to download, using Facebook, the ten most popular books at every college (manually -- as not to violate Facebook's ToS). These ten books are indicative of the overall intellectual milieu of that college.
2. Download the average SAT/ACT score for students attending every college.
3. Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!

Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores

4. Plot the average SAT of each book, discarding books with too few samples to have a reliable average.
5. Post the results on your website, pondering what the Internet will think of it.

The best parts of conversations with Virgil is that occasionally you pick up on subtle jokes. Other times they completely fly by you and Virgil has to come out and tell you what your missing:

Legions of Literature majors harangued about Lolita's categorization as "Erotica" instead of "Classics". Fine. I've already updated the entry and rankings. Tomorrow I'll make a new version of the images with Lolita in "Classics". You all lack any sense of humor.

Booksthatmakeyoudumb

Via the Democratic Caucus...

I'm rerecommending this chart because of the data it contains and not because of the conclusions it seeks to have you draw from that data.

The Bush Administration is certainly directly responsible for some of the changes on this list, such as international opinion of the US, and the increases in our budget and trade deficits.

However, in many respects this chart is pure partisan bullshit. The most starkly annoying aspect is the inclusion of US dependence on foreign oil as a percentage of total oil consumption by the party that faught domestic oil exploration in Alaska. You're blaiming your partisan enemy for the inevitable consequences of the policies you advocated. That's as low as it gets.

Many of the items on this list, such as the increase in oil prices and the amount of job creation, are related to aspects of the business cycle or developments in the global economy that aren't the direct responsibility of the Bush administration. Some, such as changes in the cost of insurance and the number of people insured, are more clearly political, but are the fault of a wide array of actors and not just the Presidency. In fact, the Administration did work on the insurance problem.

The things that I like about this chart are political but I don't see them as directly related to Bush. The most important statistic, I think, is the median household income. It dropped. In 8 years, it dropped.

Charting various aspects of life of last 8 years