Monthly Archive: January 2017
An insidious new Gmail phishing attack is tricking even the most careful of users
A new phishing technique is fooling internet users into giving hackers access to their Gmail accounts. According to WordPress security plugin creator Wordfence, the way that the attack works is that hackers send emails to the...
Bad Moon Rising
“November 8, 2016, 4pm. My boss swings by my desk. She’s smiling, putting her coat on, talking of champagne with neighbors. She leaves, I check Facebook. Lots of selfies. One from Liv- white pantsuit, red ‘I voted’ sticker, red lipstick to match. It’s all planned. I close it. I flash back to 2004, downtown Hilton, DNC headquarters. A young democrat plays a hopeful melody on the lobby piano while we all get drunk in the ballroom bracing for victory, which never comes.”
Morning Ed: Politics {2017.01.16.M}
A Republican wins in DC. Partisans be partisan. Independents do okay too. And ICP.
YouTube: Don’t Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester)
Melissa Manchester – Don’t cry out loud From: Melissa Manchester – Don’t cry out loud – YouTube
Viva la Resistance!
Because every evil dystopia has its band of ragtag resistance fighters with that one in a million chance of toppling an empire.
This Cannot Be
Dear Presidential Committee:
On behalf of the nineteen Core Competencies as developed by the Consensus Statement on Presidential Attributes Sub-Committee on Selection Criteria Summit of 2048, we respectfully submit this Letter of Evaluation.
Hot Air: In California, you can’t publish actors’ ages on IMDB anymore
So the stated purpose of this law is supposedly to prevent age discrimination in employment. Seriously? First of all, we’re talking about famous people in the case of IMDB. It’s not as if you...
Linky Friday The Doomteenth
This Week: Healthcare, Media, Space, Creatures, Energy, Doom, and Transportation!
Tech Thursday
Like Tech Tuesday, except I’ve been busy. More Tech News, More Tech Commentary, More Geeking Out in the Comments.
Daniel Summers: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made pediatricians’ jobs a lot harder
If enough parents refuse to have their children vaccinated, the herd immunity that protects the nation as a whole will wane. There were a record number of measles cases in 2014, the majority in people who were unvaccinated. Does anyone want to share the experience of the Spanish parents whose unvaccinated son died of diphtheria in 2015, after that country had been free of the disease since 1986?
