wow, bespoke tasting, sounds good…
Taste-In Wine Tastings - Luxist
A two-hour tasting starts with a glass of champagne followed by eight wines. The Classic tasting costs £1200 for 12 people. They can also provide bespoke tastings to deliver whatever your heart desires.
I guess when Universal Binary version of PS comes out I would upgrade to the 17MBP, I absolutely need the FW800 port!!
Reddit find of the day, a color coded map that shows gas prices across the country.
USA National Gas Temperature Map
This is messed up. The computer systems used by the government have problems dealing with rare Chinese characters. Instead of fixing the software, they are trying to ban “problematic” Chinese characters in names. Seems a bit backward to me, as I am sure there are millions more “problematic” names than the number of software that [...]
Women and the world economy | A guide to womenomics | Economist.com:
“WHY can’t a woman be more like a man?” mused Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady”. Future generations might ask why a man can’t be more like a woman. In rich countries, girls now do better at school than boys, more women are [...]
The language business in China | English beginning to be spoken here | Economist.com:
Today the Chinese are obsessed with English. Anything up to a fifth of the population is learning the language. As Gordon Brown, the British finance minister, observed on a trip to China last year, in two decades China’s English speakers will already [...]
It sucks that SuperFuture is down at the moment, as there was a thread with a list of streetwear and denim shops already. I don’t have the NYC SuperMaps either, which sucks big time, I knew I should’ve downloaded them to my phone…
Anyway, this is basically what I’ve got planned, I only have about 4 [...]
I haven’t checked my bugtraq folder for a long long time, today while waiting for a long compilation and simulation I looked and I liked Theo’s comment on PAM:
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Strengthen OpenSSH security?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:15:30 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt
> > It seems to me that sshd should not tip its hand [...]
They didn’t disable it at first, and then they did, and then they re-enabled it, WTF… but as long as they keep it this way, it’s all good… Now we need to get Sherry’s phone reflashed to .04 firmware.
Verizon enables RAZR V3c pic transfers over USB and Bluetooth - Engadget Mobile
In what seems [...]
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