Now I can let you know what I’ve been beavering away at for the past month. PCMagCast’s first Security & Mobility Virtual Tradeshow will be happening August 23 and 24, with a full lineup of presentations and other goodies on computer security and mobility for businesses. We’re trying to replicate th

Amazing but true: Madeleine Albright can leg-press 400 pounds: Madeleine Albright and the Leg Press: Controversy Settled, Once and For All – Wonkette

I loved my Leatherman and used it nearly every day, but after less than a year one of the clips that lock the tools into the “open” position broke off. It just wasn’t built that well. I took the thing back to REI a few months ago and exchanged it for a slightly more expensive […]

If you’re a parent, the “hygiene hypothesis” (that filth improves your immune system) is very reassuring: Wired News: You Dirty, Healthy Rat

School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers: Against School – John Taylor Gatto (2003 Harper’s article, as good as ever)

What Winer doesn’t seem to get is that Dvorak is an entertainer: Scripting News: Dvorak “on record as a self-declared troll”

Differentiation through a REALLY BIG FONT: Big.com: The Most Readable Results on the Web

Stephen Hawking says we need space colonies in case we Earthlings wipe ourselves out. Guy’s gotta point: Hawking: Space key to human survival – Jun 14, 2006

Stevie Wonder plays Sesame Street, 1972. Can’t help but thinking that kids’ music was way better in the 1970s! (via tuberaider)

Clara’s latest obsession is the Magnetic Fields song “The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side,” which also happens to be my favorite. She heard the very beginning of it yesterday, just as I was switching it off, and demanded to hear the whole thing. Then she listened to it a few times. Last night […

Outstanding music podcast: 30 minutes of cover songs, about 3x/week, usually on a theme (Bob Dylan’s birthday, Smiths covers, etc): Coverville Even better: All the songs are legally licensed, which means the musicians get paid. Cool!

1. It’s a complicated issue. A really complicated technical issue. The simplistic rhetoric of “demanding that ISPs treat all traffic equally” is a nonstarter, because ISPs have never done that. Peering arrangements, cacheing networks like Akamai, even the fact that you can get slow DSL for an averag