to save their lives. Case in point: the FAQ for GnuPG for OS X (and Unix). At a time when the world needs PGP/GPG more than ever, is now the time to have a FAQ that only explains a basic task like generating a key in Advanced Topics: How does this whole thing work?

Studies show a low total fat diet does NOT prevent cancer or heart disease. Of course over (and under) eating is still dangerous.

Bring on the steak au poivre! In moderation of course.

I never slam the MSM, but it's time. Here's the Washington Post wistfully declaring about AOL and Yahoo's inane idea to charge corporate opt-in^H^H^H^H^H^H spammers to bypass spam filters: "Maybe this is where it starts to change." Fortunately, some guy pointed out the obvious - it's a way to make it easier to spam, not harder, if you pay the corporate owners of the users' mailboxes.

Virginia is my home state, but I am deeply ashamed of that fact today, thanks to the legal slap in the face of law-abiding gay men and women passed by its legislature.

Opponents of same sex marriage, why would you attack someone like Jay Fisette so personally? Because that is what your friends have done in the Old Dominion.

Well, just a little bit. Olympic champions Cuba will be able to compete at the World Baseball Classic.

Now if only the team would let Livan play...

Finally, someone says the obvious.

opportunistic encryption? The idea that hosts communicating with each other can encrypt data by default, and automatically, even if they don't previously know each other?

Is your husband impotent, unfaithful, or generally useless? Blame coffee!

Bruce Schneier on Bush:

according to [White House lawyer] Yoo['s] memo, the president can define war however he chooses, and remain "at war" for as long as he chooses.

I thought we had odd people in SF! Apparently the Finns are something else entirely.

Too bad no free shipping!

For the poetry fans: Poetry in the style of the poet, about an anagram (Holy Tango - anagram of Analogy) of the poet's name:

SKINNY DOMICILE
EMILY DICKINSON

I have a skinny Domicile--
Its Door is very narrow.
'Twill keep--I hope--the Reaper out--
His Scythe--and Bones--and Marrow.