Link Friday: The "You Need Some Culture" Edition
Aug 18, 2006Links I found interesting from the week of 8/13/06:
- From the Black Hat conference, hacking a laptop through the wireless card. Scary stuff, considering most of us don’t think much of connecting to public access point these days at coffee shops.
- On a non-tech related note, Tuesday’s ESPN Daily Quickie announced that the Daily Quickie is ending at the end of this month. I was floored. I’m not as big into sports since I dropped cable two years ago, but I still read the Daily Quickie religiously every morning over breakfast.
- Bruce Tate, a high profile Java to Ruby defector, has an interview with one of his clients about how choosing Rails for a project was a complete success. More proof that Rails has a place in the world of big business.
- An article about how Portland, Oregon has made a conscious effort to make public transportation a focus for getting around the city. I’d love it if Lancaster had real bicycle lanes. Right now I just try to coexist with cars as best I can (the sidewalk is much, much more dangerous).
And the one link you really should pay attention to:
- If you need a great way to spend 84 minutes of your time go find a copy of Boys of Baraka to watch. Lisa picked it out at the Lancaster County Library and we loved it. Documentary about a group of inner city boys from Baltimore that spend 7th grade at a small boarding school in Africa.