WASHINGTON - Karl Rove, President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.

On board with Bush since the beginning of his political career in Texas, Rove was nicknamed "the architect" and "boy genius" by the president for designing the strategy that twice won him the White House. Critics call Rove "Bush's brain."

The DCoS is finally leaving the WH, maybe after he leaves he could finally testify before of Congress... But that's probably been the plan all along. Get all the ducks in row and leave scott free. I guess the next shoe to drop will be AG "Judge" Gonzales.

Here's a link to the original WSJ article

--timball

Karl Rove to resign at end of August - Yahoo! News

The photograph on the above right shows 244 locks collected from under an airport baggage handling conveyor belt (where two belts come together), over a one-month period at a single New York airport. Depending on the bag design, the strategic use of duct/gaffer's tape (to prevent locks from dangling) can reduce the likelihood of this sort of mishap.

About to fly to SF and I'm gonna need this webpage. THANK YOU MEMESTREAMS YOU MAKE MY FLYING LIFE BETTER.

--timball

ps) FU TSA

One Bag: Checking Bags: Lost Locks

A list of hot dog stands in the United States. I just found this place dunno how reliable it is yet.

--timball

www.hotdoggintheus.com

As warrantee I am about to use this webpage to void my warranty.

--timball

Upgrade Your MacBook Pro s Hard Drive

• Like Lotus Cars, Obvio ! cars are designed by drivers for drivers, adding lightweight with unparalleled handling

• Monocoque integrated aluminum chassis design includes composites passengers safety cell utilizing “Niess Elliptical Survival Rings”

• High performance, microsport car with seating for three, side-by-side

• All laminated safety glass tinted windows, front and side impact airbags

• No more parallel parking, fits lengthwise into the width of most parking spots

It's god aweful... I want one SOOOO bad.

--timball

Obvio ! model 828 specs

Unlike hunting, I was not raised fishing. My family owned a set of hand-me-down rods from someone who might have fished at one point. The rods themselves are classics, but in hopeless condition. By todays standards, they are antiques. The body of the rod I prefer to use is laminated wood, and the guides are rusted and have a tendency to grab the line. At one point they may have been proud shining brass. The reel was a mess, and for the longest time the whole rig sat inside my parents shed. Fishing was something we did on weekends, in stocked ponds, for fish that never knew better. One day when helping my father clean things up, I stumbled across the old rod which no-one had used in a decade and got a crazy idea: I was going to take up fishing.

A pretty good article about how to start fishing from the geek up.

--timball

A Fin Too Far: A Guide to Freshwater Fishing || kuro5hin.org

DOMinatrix is, well, incredibly awesome. It's a full automated SQL Injection tool written in JavaScript, which will dump out data from MS SQL Server databases (more to come). I'm be demoing DOMinatrix at my Black Hat presentation.

XSS + Web worm + DOMinatrix = oh crap.

In the last 5 months we've seen the development of web scanners and SQL injectors in JavaScript.

These aren't a browser exploits.
These aren't buffer overflows.
These aren't something that affects only a single browser and only on pages that don't explicitly set a character set.

This is using JavaScript in perfectly valid ways to do extremely malicious things.

There is no way to patch this.
End users are pretty much screwed.

Here is a screen shot of DOMinatrix in action.

DOMinatrix - The JavaScript SQL Injector

I finally ate at the Southern Kitchen in New Market VA. It's just off of I-81 in the middle of VA and it's GOOD. The best thing I had there was their "peanut soup". Imagine a sufrito w/ smashed up boiled peanuts... It's crazy good.

--timball

Southern Kitchen @ HollyEats.com

Three years before Ray Kroc began franchising McDonald’s, Wright’s Dairy Rite of Staunton, Virginia, started serving Superburgers. Two beef patties with cheese and lettuce, topped with special sauce and layered in a triple-decker bun, this monumental hamburger is still served as it was in 1952 – by car hops at the window of your vehicle in a car slip at the side of the restaurant. Wright’s added a dining room in 1989, so it is possible to eat inside, where décor includes a handsome Wurlitzer juke box (with compact discs rather than 45s) and vintage Wright’s menus from the 1950s and 1960s; but for us, the joy of this place is in-car dining.

If really, really hungry, we forgo the Superburger for a Monsterburger. That is one-half pound of beef barely sandwiched in a bun, available in a basket, with French fries or, better yet, with Wright’s homemade onion rings. To drink with this festive heap of food, one needs a shake. At Wright’s, milk shakes are the real thing, available in chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla, as well as with real bananas or strawberries (mmmm!), and with or without malted milk for additional richness. While on the subject of dairy products, we should also note that this place knows how to make a fine banana split, a float (a big blob of ice cream set adrift in the soda pop of your choice), and a flurry (candy and/or cookies blended into soft-serve ice cream).

Wright’s serves three meals a day, and the menu goes well beyond burgers. There are regular and foot-long hot dogs, pork barbecue on a bun, sandwich baskets with potato chips and a pickle, whole submarines, hearty chili with beans, and even some recently added low-fat wraps. In addition to milk shakes and soda pop, the beverage list includes that drink known to connoisseurs of Dixie mixology as the champagne of the South – pre-sweetened ice tea, served in cups that range up to one-quart size.

Yet another place that I ate at off of I-81. The malted milkshakes (yes I hate ice cream, but I do love a good malted) and the superburger were awesome. I'll definitely be hitting this place again.

--timball

Wright's Dairy Rite - Staunton, VA

Located in historic washington grove maryland , Hershey's restaurant makes some of the best fried chicken I've ever eaten. While rattle was in town we went to this local bar/restaurant not once, nor twice, but thrice! At $12 for half a fried chicken with two sides (rattle says the mac&cheese is great) and ~ $5 for cocktails it's a great way to spend some time in gaithersburg md. Be sure to ask for Bob's special maryland style bloody mary (the secret is some old bay).

I'll bet I post a tabblo w/ some pix RSN.

--timball

Hersheys Restaurant