Comparing Democratic and Republican tax plans: They are actually pretty much the same, up until the \$200,000/year salary mark. (via Daring Fireball)

Backlash grows over TSA's 'naked strip searches': I am so not looking forward to going through security next week.

10.6: Update renders Mac with PGP disk encryption unbootable: This is exactly why I don't go for software that does a bunch of stuff to the internals of your Operating System, without the vendor's knowledge.

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote: Pretty amazing story from Derek Sivers (of CD Baby fame). But to be honest, Derek should have seen this coming. The only things that Apple wants you to talk about are things that the put out into the public. If you attend a meeting in Cupertino, and it isn't going to be broadcast to the public, then you had better keep your mouth shut about it. ;)