Craigslist. I assume that virtually everyone on this site finds discriminatory housing practices to be abhorrent, and thinks the 1968 Fair Housing Act is a good piece of legislation. That certainly sums up my opinion. But what do you think of this: Craigslist, the online do-it-yourself classified forum, is being sued because some apartment rental [...]

Review: Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit. The Penetration Tester’s Open Source Toolkit is a new offering from Syngress that primarily focuses on using the Auditor live CD. The 200605-02-ipw2100 version comes included with the book; if you have an IPW2200 wireless interface in your laptop, though, the 802.11x tools won’t work as it doesn’t include [...]

I've been reading about the latest RSS controversy for the past few days, and I think this post on the RSS-Public mailing list summarizes my thoughts as well as anything: Being Ambiguous that way is a bug, not a feature. Here's a question: I'm an aggregator implementor. Based on the spec being ambiguous in this [...]

GTD 2006.36: 5 Execution tips. It's easy – especially for GTD people – to get all wrapped up in the logic, knowledge and formulation of Getting Things Done and not get one damn thing done all day. I've done it, maybe you have too: reorganizing, reprocessing, planning and replanning and oh look! The day is [...]

Slowly destroying our ideals from within. Over at the New Yorker, Jane Mayer has written what amounts to a must-read report on how the U.S. executive branch has come to condone cruelty and torture in its ongoing fight against terrorism. Alberto Mora, the recently-retired general counsel to the U.S. Navy, plays a large role in [...]

9 tips for running more productive meetings. I very much enjoyed Ethan’s recent post about avoiding “vampire meetings” and thought I’d share a few of my own tips for getting the most out of your meetings — primarily from the perspective of being the organizer and facilitator. For the love of God, please respect your [...]

Free online ebook on entrepreneurship. Author Bruce Judson has taken his book on starting your own business, Go It Alone to the WWW. And it's free. From the intro: Today, the conventional wisdom about how to start a substantial business is just plain wrong. Now, you don’t need to raise a lot of money first, [...]

American Cohen Leads After Short Program. Sasha Cohen, the U.S. champion, dazzled the judges with a sassy, sensational program Tuesday night and slipped past world champion Irina Slutskaya of Russia by a slim .03 points. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Home Page]

Bush Threatens to Veto Any Bill to Stop Port Takeover. The president rejected calls to block a state-owned company from Dubai from assuming control of six American ports. By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC LIPTON. [NYT > Home Page]

I'd love to see Bob Costas strap in and give snowboardcross a go!. Being a complete news whore, I read about Lindsey Jacobellis's last-minute loss of the snowboardcross gold medal hours before I actually saw NBC's coverage of it. Watching the event, though, I'm not entirely convinced that she was outright showboating — but I [...]