I just got a copy of Weegee’s Naked City, published by Da Capo Press. Unfortunately the quality of this edition is very bad–the pictures all look like they were photocopied. It was pretty much a waste of money.
Month: August 2008
-
Technology deja vu
Mozilla explores collaborative, 3D browsers. The Mozilla Foundation is investigating web browsers that would allow users to share websites and compare information in real time, Aurora, the concept would revolve around the notion of data and pages organized into cells, or clusters of relevant information. [Electronista]
The “spatial view” shown in the video looks a lot like Apple’s long-dead Project X, allowing for ten years of improvement to graphics hardware.
-
Undercover Gestapo agent revealed
DEA undercover agent Thanks to some detective work by Kris Hermes, the thug wearing the Blackwater t-shirt in a photo that disappeared down the LA Times memory hole recently has been identified as an undercover DEA agent. I’ve blown up the Gestapo agent’s face here in the hope that it might make him easier to identify.
I couldn’t find any information on who took the original photo, which can be seen at the Americans for Safe Access site.
-
Good riddance to a quack doctor
My sources in Mississippi tell me that tomorrow afternoon the new commissioner of the state’s Department of Public Safety will announce that embattled medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne will be removed from the state’s list of approved medical examiners.
Which means he’ll no longer be performing autopsies in Mississippi. There may be other sanctions in the works, too.
There’s a press conference scheduled for 1:30pm CT.
Read my long investigative piece on Hayne from reason’s October issue here. All of my follow-reporting on Hayne here.
Assuming that it really does happen, this would be a rare piece of good news.
Based on everything I’ve read about Dr. Hayne, I think appropriate “other sanctions” would be life in prison without possibility of parole.
-
FileVault can’t be trusted
Black Hat Talk on FileVault Encryption Flaw Pulled.
Brian Krebs:
Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his research on a weakness that could be used to defeat FileVault encryption on the Mac. But sometime last week, Black Hat organizers pulled his name and presentation listing from its schedule of talks.
Contacted via cell phone, Edge said he signed confidentiality agreements with Apple, which prevents him from speaking on the topic and from discussing the matter further.
This should be taken as Apple’s special way of saying, “FileVault isn’t secure and shouldn’t be trusted.”
-
Clearing out years worth of ob…
Clearing out years worth of obsolete bookmarks in Firefox.
-
Nothing messes up an otherwise…
Nothing messes up an otherwise good movie like a long, boring car chase with lots of gratuitous explosions.
-
Generally when someone is play…
Generally when someone is playing at the Wiltern, the crowd out front looks like the Attack of the Clones.
-
Somebody in the mainstream media slipped up
3 Suspects Break In, Only 2 Get Out Alive. A Woodland Hills homeowner shot and killed one of three suspects who
burst into his home Friday afternoon in an apparent attempted home
invasion robbery, police said. [CBS 2 News]It’s pretty unusual for the mainstream media to admit that people use guns to defend themselves. Such stories are normally either buried completely or “sanitized” to remove any mention of how exactly the criminals were stopped.
It’s also worth comparing the outcome in this incident to another recent story, of the type the media prefers.
-
Wasn’t slavery abolished?
DAVID T. BEITO: Obama’s National Service Plan.
Investors Daily has an editorial asserting that Obama’s “voluntary” national service plan a compulsory plan in disguise. …Obama says that as president he will “set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year.” What he doesn’t say is that he’ll make such voluntarism compulsory by attaching strings to federal education dollars. The schools will make the kids volunteer. It’s called plausible deniability.
Before we single out Obama, however, it might be worth finding out if McCain is any better on this issue.
Here’s what the Constitution has to say about this plan:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
