A Dream

So you’ve identified your ideal job, written the resume, survived the interview, received -- and accepted -- the offer. And you start in two weeks.

Now what?

The Monster Blog: You’re Hired! Now What?

Muppet Wiki!

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem - Muppet Wiki

Wonderful

Oh, how I miss that.

Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fox News under fire

"Bad guys shoot at anything."
"But it is Israel."
"Ahhh, ... but it's although, ... if he's correct ... "

The Raw Story | Fox crew shot at in Israel

Negative Infinity

Researchers of cognitive dissonance in the nineteen-fifties found that consumers would continue to read ads for a new car after they’d bought it but would avoid information about other brands, fearing post-purchase misgivings.

Sometimes less choice and less information is a good thing. Or to reitarte "Embrace your constrains".

It is always a painful experience for me to buy a sandwich at Subways. What size? What bread? What type? Chease? Grilled? What vegetables? Pepper? What sauce? And then, when I think I'm almost done: Take away? I want to yell: "I don't know! How the fuck should I know!? I just don't know! Just give me the fucking sandwich of the day! I just want a fucking sandwich!"

I guess I would go insane in a starbucks coffeshop...

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
(Via 37 Signals)

Booooh!

The worst thing that usually happens at Old MacDonald's Petting Zoo, in Alabama, involves the resident emu who, visitors are warned, has been known to deliver a "hard peck".

Yet the zoo is listed as a critical potential target for terrorists, according to an internal audit by the US government that condemns the Department of Homeland Security for taking a too-broad approach to the risk of attack. The report, by the department's inspector-general, who serves as a watchdog, lists numerous other sites in the National Asset Database "whose criticality is not readily apparent" - including the Sweetwater Flea Market in Tennessee, Amish Country Popcorn in Indiana, a kangaroo conservation centre, a cheque-cashing outlet and a doughnut shop. Other, vaguer, entries include "a restaurant", "a travel stop" and "beach at end of a street".

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Ice cream parlour tops US terror list
(via fefe)

Can you spell R e d H e r r i n g?

Famous for 15 megapixels: Official 7/7 timeline turns out to be bollocks – fancy that

"It’s a lot worse over here [in Iraq] than is reported."

Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: Covering Iraq

(via telepolis, in German)

Super-Duper

No matter how sophisticated and super-duper are NSA's methods for identifying terrorists, no matter how big and fast are NSA's computers, NSA's accuracy rate will never be 100% and their misidentification rate will never be 0%. That fact, plus the extremely low base-rate for terrorists, means it is logically impossible for mass surveillance to be an effective way to find terrorists.

Schneier on Security: Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy

Nothing like a good coincidence

If the "Doc Info" data [shown above] on the PDF version of Rumsfeld's Rules is accurate, someone had just finished updating the file less than an hour before the hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon.

Classic Planet PDF - AcroPDF Weblog for week of April 29, 2002
(via LewRockwell and wwww)

Florida, Airplanes and the CIA Part II

Southern Air Transport, based in Miami, Florida, is best known as a front company for the Central Intelligence Agency. It was founded in 1947 and became a subsidiary of the CIA's airline proprietary network, the Pacific Corporation. SAT's Pacific Division supported the US war effort in Southeast Asia. Although the CIA was ordered to divest its airlines in 1976, SAT continued to support US covert activities in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Angola, and elsewhere. In 1986 Nicaragua shot down a SAT cargo plane and captured SAT employee Eugene Hasenfus, leading to the Iran-Contra affair.

Southern Air Transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

USA - Protecting Freedom and Democracy since 1945

Afghanistan
Bolivia
Brazil
Cuba
Chile
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Guyana
Iran
Iraq
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Syria
Vietnam

Just giving one more or less random example for each country. Here is a more complete list. This is interesting as well. There are many more that can be added to this list, like Laos, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Lebanon, Honduras, Bolivia, Somalia, Argentine, Ecuador, Greece, Yemen, Fiji, Venezuela, Haiti, Equatorial Guinea, some of which can only be claimed. And of course there are those little dirty covert operations by the CIA, many will never be known publicly...

The world would be a lot safer place, if the US would stop meddling with the affairs of other nations.

Jon Steward is da shit

Seriously, the house of representatives is filled with insane jackasses.

Best political comment from US TV in a long time.
BatzLog - Noch etwas Salz? � Giller-Gämes

Seven Guys?

The Miami Seven

Objective

I have no objective. What's the point when cold death is the final destination for us all? Can you explain that to me? I know I'm supposed to put something here, though, so here goes: Your objective is to hire me into a challenging position in a computer-applications-based field within which you feel I can "make a difference" and "contribute" in a team environment.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Nihilist Job R�sum�.
(via Damien Katz)

Fuck eBay

Fucking monopolist. Fuck em.
(Yes, I use them too...)
eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout

"Not in my name, Tony."

BBC NEWS | UK | Images of 7 July: Bloodied and dazed

How not to protect passwords in software...

I'm told that one company's networking software from a long time ago had a bug just like this one. They used a very advanced "change password" algorithm, the details of which are not important. The design was that only heavily encrypted data was transmitted on the wire. That way, somebody who sat on the network and captured packets wouldn't see anything of value. Except that they had a bug in their client: When it sent the encrypted password to the server, it forgot to null out the unused bytes in the "change password" packet. And in those unused bytes were, you guessed it, a copy of the password in plain text.

The Old New Thing : Security: Don't forget to initialize the stuff you don't care about

Just a Coincidence?

The bus explosion also happened to occur right in front of the headquarters of two Israeli-based security firms, Fortress GB and ICTS UK Ltd, both based in Tavistock House, and having Underground-line security contracts.

Just a conspiracy coincidence, surely. The other explanation that comes to my mind is more along the lines of the "horse head in the bed", a warning send to these Israeli firms. But who send this warning, and what for?
July 7th Truth Campaign - The People's Investigation into 7/7

"Can't make this shit up."

Even Bush's Feces & Urine Are Classified Top Secret

(via fefe)

He's dead, Jim

Could we now stop this stupid occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan? Please?

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden - New York Times

Bin Laden is dead

Dead, dead, dead.

CNN.com - CIA reportedly shuts down anti-bin Laden unit - Jul 4, 2006

F#cked

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA