JavaWorld: Java security evolution and concepts, Part 4.

Yahoo News is one of the original aggregators with content partners and a lean editorial staff. Now they’ve made RSS feeds painless and integrated more technology into news than ever.

A must read.

O’Reilly: some simple steps to take.

Freeciv is a free, multiplayer, open source Civilization clone. Been around a long time. I’ve never had the time to give it a try. Any of you out there like it?

Google Tutor & Advisor: finding interesting video, sound and image files in unprotected directories.

Let me know how it looks or if anything is broken. My blogroll is coming back to. Although, it’s kinda…liberating… not publishing it 🙂

There is no “mainstream” media that is well-defined as Them, nor are webloggers suddenly Us. The term “The Media” is so nebulous that it includes us all. The line between the imagined “Us” bloggers and “Them” media outlets is so gray that it can’t be drawn. Media outlets in all forms are absorbing blog format, subjects, and culture and blogs of all forms are absorbing media outlets’ format, subjects, and culture at a speed so swift it will soon be difficult to tell one from the other, if it hasn’t happened already.

You are the media. I am the media. Blogs are a fixture in the mainstream. So when you decry the “MSM” as an imaginary villain, I know I’m done with your site.

A Whole Lotta Nothing: New rule

via dangerousmeta.

I want to disable comment approval here, but it doesn’t look like I have many options to fight the spam that shows up whenever I do.

Six Apart has a handy guide that makes a few recommendations, none of which I am entirely happy with. I’ll have to choose something however. I miss the conversation.