Mac of the future: the OS: John Siracusa has written a pretty good rundown of what the next version of Mac OS X, Lion, could mean for Mac users.

A Waste of Money and Time - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com: Bruce Schneier gets it:

"A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.

This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it."

Amen. (via Daring Fireball)

Increase your wordiness: A classic joke from episode 8F22.

Level 3: Comcast now has a 'toll booth' fee for online video: This sort of thing is exactly why we need Net Neutrality.

Stuxnet Redux: Questions and Answers: Did the Israeli government write the Stuxnet worm to mess with Iran's nuclear capability? Nobody knows for sure, it seems like this Stuxnet worm is a pretty amazing piece of work.