I can't believe March is over. Yeesh.

1. Wiki Woman - An article on the Wikipedia wars on both Obama and Clinton's pages.
2. Most Awesomely Bad Military Patches 10 | Danger Room from Wired.com - Tenth in a series of stunningly improper / un-PC / goofy "morale patches" for various military organizations. This page has a list of the previous entries. I don't know whether to be appalled or to giggle or both.
3. Triviagasm: Far Out SciFi Worlds of Sid and Marty Krofft - I loved the Kroft stuff as a kid. Well, some of them. I was a big Bugaloos fan and Lidsville follower, And, of course, Land of the Lost rocked. Most of the others, though, I never got into.
4. Writing for Firefly and Battlestar - From the only person who did both, Jane Espenson.
5. Exchange: HBO's 'John Adams' (Parts 1 and 2) - A discussion between historians about the mini-series. I'm going to revisit this once I've read the whole thing.
6. Commentary: Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional - A Bruce Schneier discussion of how security professionals see things differently -- and why maybe we should (sometimes) do the same.
7. Pulp of the Day - A pulp magazine cover a day -- complete with caption contest. Cool.

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Oh My, it's scary how many of the Sid & Marty Kroft shows I remember just from the opening songs. :( Yes, Loved the Bugaloos (well, Joy mostly) and there was Much joy in BD land when I found the Land of the Lost section of WoW...with Pilons and Ninja Dinosaurs. ;P

That Schneier article about the security mindset touches on a pet annoyance of mine. I can't look at a lock without thinking about how it can be defeated/improved. Can't look at a subway tunnel without thinking about 50 different ways a terrorist attack could be carried out and what kinds of defenses could be mounted, if any. A traffic control box without thinking about how to jam up traffic for miles around, and so on.

Thing is, the authorities really don't want to hear it. Oh, they talk about improving security, but I've seen enough people get in trouble or at least end up on a watch list because they pointed out a security flaw to know it's better to keep quiet.

Ironically, it's the security mindset that Schneier talks about (thinking of how something could be subverted, bypassed, misused in an unexpected fashion) that gets me riled up over so man so-called security measures in the current "security theater" environment.

Patches:
Laughed out loud for "You Sent My Mom To Iraq. You Bastards!" and "Death Wears Bunny Slippers".

The Bunny Slippers one was pretty cool.