Greg, I think you could be talking about traffic analysis.
Teresa, re WTF:
A summary.
The WaPo article
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state’s emergency operations center said Saturday.
If someone could tell me that this is, in fact, not true, I would be profoundly grateful.
Interestingly, I've gotten phishing emails that are formatted, in HTML, to look as if they're plaintext.
They're in 10-point Courier, and have links like the following:
http://www.whitehouse.gov
(That link will bring you back to this page, not to the White House web page.)
I suspect that these phishing tactics are aimed at people who have been told, by their technically savvier friends or relatives, never to click a link unless it's a full URL in a plain text email.
I had to share this. Someone on DeviantArt has put together a beautiful and informative graph showing the details of the United States budget, in scale to each other.
Death And Taxes.
The image is huge. But very much worth the download time.
Stefan: It occupies an honored place in my DVD collection, yes. We'll be watching it on Christmas Eve, as is traditional in this house. And by "traditional" I mean "something I just made up."
And in the vein of anti-santas, don't forget Krampus. :)
BethN: Thanks for that. I copied the text and pasted it into the "URL" field of a bookmark to create a bookmarklet that does the lookup with a click in the toolbar of my browser. Yay.
I don't think Making Light's comment section would let me post the link as a bookmarklet if I tried, though.
Another here with 8 out of ten, erring on the side of paranoia.
I just this morning got a phishing email from ebay on gmail (which I use as my webform address, and not for commerce at all, thus making things easier, like Jill Smith).
I hadn't noticed before, but gmail has a good "report phishing" button and a warning at the top of the screen that says: "this email may not be from who it claims to be!" Likely because they logic-checked the headers, which (viewing source) were definitely bogus. Sufficiently advanced technology == magic...
James:
I like that. And yet, I'm still drawn to the revolutionary flag, and the Baskerville type that was struck around the same period.
It puts me in mind of Brad Delong and The United States as a Developing Country During the Cold War: this is not the first time our nation has faced dire circumstances with venal politicians at the helm.
The Prisoner's Flag was made as a statement of defiance by a prisoner of war. That's close how I feel right now.
Just saying. :)
Okay, coming up with a version myself. One question:
Does anyone here know where I could find a higher-resolution image of the "Prisoner's Flag?"
http://cterwilliger.com/flags/3.gif
"The Prisoner's Flag" was made by an American prisoner of war on a prison ship in Devon, England. Improvised from material the prisoner had on hand, the white stripes are of silk ribbon stitched to a ground of red wool twill (a British officer's redcoat?) The canton of thirteen stars rests on the fourth red stripe, the "war stripe".
If I could find it in a book, I could scan it in a high enough resolution to create a print-ready file.
Dan:
George W. Bush with Parkinson's?
Surely the universe's sense of humor wouldn't be so poetic.
...
Okay, forget I said that last part.
Christopher: D'oh. Well, I feel stupid.
I even did a glance-through, but missed it. Oh, well...
This is slightly off-topic. However, on the vague subject of editing and reviews, I was amused when a friend pointed me at Amazon.com's page for Anne Rice's new novel.
The usual thing happens in the reviews, fans vs. critics. And then Anne herself decides to write a long, incoherent rant with no whitespace, and declares that she has a special deal where editors are not allowed to touch her work.
This explains so much.
http://tinyurl.com/6wu62
Cheers.
Larry: Well, for whatever it's worth, I bought Beyond Fear via Amazon last year, and have successfully flown internationally and domestically since.
It's a scary turn we've come to, though, when you can legitimately worry about what books you buy in this country. And sadly, not the first time I've heard that said or thought it myself.
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