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Obama expresses outrage at Rev. Wright ’spectacle’

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OKAY PRETEND FOR A SEC

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ponytail - “beg waves”. ponytail get it exactly right in the opening track to ice cream spiritual: electrically complete and still marvellously composed, like a duke ellington suite for hoarse throats, scraped knees, joy. it’s the fall, not deerhoof, i listen to clearest in their song - but with fewer regrets, fewer chips-on-candidly, even-handed thrills & fears & squawk. let’s think you were arriving overnight from california, muscle-tired and underslept, but you have a whole era in fa?ade of you; let’s imagine there’s a million reasons to fall asleep but one big a certain to stay bestir oneself; let’s assume you have to go on and on and on; let’s consider you neediness a renewed reason to pump yr fist in the air. satisfactory: here. beautiful and squalid. [ponytail’s ice cream spiritual is out june 17. get as excited as you similarly to: album teaser here. from the ears that brought you yeasayer.] the orchards - “gemini”. i remember we were in the basement. i had drunk a beer or two. i was in my dilatory teens, unaccustomed to booze. my friends were talking beside me, two of them playing ping-pong. i had been sitting for a while, and then i stood up. and suddenly all around me the world was sparkling, was effervescent and fizzing, lights and glints and shines. and i was terrified and animated and panicked, thought maybe i was dying (though it was just oxygen & brain &c). anyway, this is what is extreme about the orchards’ “gemini” - the modus operandi at 1 Lilliputian 40 his strum & melancholy gets all streaked in zing, cobwebbed with shock, something splintering out- and in-side him in the brittle way that small epiphanies do. [myspace/buy] — you are a damn Punchinello if you living in montreal and do not go to take care stars of the lid on tuesday night at the masonic temple. merely sayin’. (bonus tip: clues on saturday, robyn on sunday. yes it’s a busy week.) [photo source unknown - from the leuven mentos + coke world record attempt]

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Rider, horse injured in fall at Rolex Three-Day Event

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a rider and her mount were apparently openly injured in an accident saturday while on the cross woods course at the rolex kentucky three-day regardless in lexington.

laine ashker and her mount frodo baggins, a black thoroughbred gelding, were attempting to cut away the fifth obstacle on the course — known as the flower basket — when the duo struck the obstacle and flipped hard onto the ground.

ashker was motionless on the ground immediately after the fall while frodo baggins melody stricken beside her.

a tarp was brought in view to shield spectators from the locale at the kentucky horse park as the two were being treated. ashker was flown to the university of kentucky medical center.

at 6:15 p.m., event officials said ashker was in stable condition. she was able to talk and move all of her limbs. the condition of frodo baggins was not immediately known.
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153: PASSOVER New Jewish Memoirist Explores Brokenness and Nourishment

Listen to this voice!

Here’s the real-life setting: She wrote the following lines just 48 hours ago. Her Passover Seders are done for another year — and Lynne Schreiber’s marriage is nearly done, as well.

Filled with the spiritual and emotional turmoil of that moment, she turns to her keyboard and sends all of us the following words: “I’m 36. I’ve lived with an illusion for eight years. Now the illusion, the dream, is dissipating, and I have no idea what I’ll see in its place. I grip the armrests of my desk chair, my knuckles whiten. “I am tempted to close my eyes tightly in fear.”

Then — she writes these next words: “But I won’t. I have to keep my gaze straight.”

This is the voice of a brave and eloquent new spiritual memoirist, Lynne Schreiber. She’s already a successful writer, mainly for national magazines, and she’s also the author of several books, including poetry and nonfiction. (You can click on the cover of her book “Hide and Seek” below and find out more about that book.) Now, in addition to her work for print magazines, she has launched an online magazine she calls “Nourish Cafe,” where Lynne is exploring the creative possibilities of spiritual memoir. Live. Online. Real. And, from our perspective, she’s got her eyes, her heart and her mind fixed squarely on the true pathway into this genre: She is pursuing Truth, wherever Truth leads her, and she’s inviting us along for the journey.

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This isn’t just David Crumm, Editor of ReadTheSpirit, making these claims.

This is the truth from the mouth of the prophet of contemporary spiritual memoir. I’m talking about the writer, who — before Anne Lamott and Rob Bell and Brian McLaren and all the rest had so much as jotted down their first drafts — was out there pioneering this genre and attracting the positive attention of the New York Times Review of Books. I’m referring to the great Frederick Buechner, who put it this way in his memoir “Telling Secrets”: “I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition — that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” When I asked Buechner about this famous comment, in an interview with him some months ago, he even went further in talking about this point. He added this: “It’s more powerful than that, in a way: Every life tells the same story, I believe. … Not only do we all have our stories of ups and downs, nightmares and high hopes in our lives. It’s more than that. We all really have the same story only with minor variations. That’s the point of being a memoirist: You’re not only telling your own story; you’re telling everybody’s story and giving them another handle to hold onto their lives.”

That’s why I love Lynne’s decision to hang a welcoming sign above her new online memoirs, labeling her sacred corner of the online realm: “Nourish Cafe.” Her underlying assumption in this unfolding memoir is that, despite life’s strange and sometimes painful turns — there is nourishment waiting for us. I’m fascinated by her voice — a smart, strong, observant Jewish woman fearlessly trying to figure out her own pathway — and confidently asking us to come along for the journey.

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LeaveMeAloneBox is Douglas Adams-esque in Its Simplicity [Ultimate Machine]

Inspired by Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky’s Ultimate Machine, the LeaveMeAloneBox is made of a couple of hobby R/C servos, a switch, a microcontroller, and a battery pack, all contained in a little box and with a sprinkling of code. “I get a pretty consistent reaction,” says Michael, the guy who made it. “First no one wants to touch it. Next, someone reaches out tentatively and flips the switch. After that, all you hear is laughter and everyone’s trying it out.” And this is how it reminds me ofThe Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

arthur listened for a limited while, but being unable to be aware the massive preponderance of what ford was saying he began to say his wit wander, trailing his fingers along the edge of an incomprehensible computer bank, he reached out and pressed an invitingly large red button on a nearby panel. the panel lit up with the words please do not convergence this button again. he shook himself.its slender hands remind me of my childhood ghoulish coffin bank, out of which an emaciated turn over submit would snake, and avariciously grasp my steal money before returning from whence it came. [leavemealonebox via make]

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Friday Footie Link List, March 22, 2008

outset things first: unabashed self-promotion time. americansoccernews.net, which has (not without merit) billed itself as the very first online soccer news service covering mls, is back. actually, it didn’t really go anywhere, but it has relaunched with a supplemental domain: american-soccer-telecast.com (though the old one will get you there as well). why is this self-promotion? because i am involved with it. in information, it is this which has been keeping me from my soccer-source duties.the new site really is great. each team has its own mini-locality, in the interest of example the red bulls are redbulls.american-soccer-news.com (they even have a poll on how the tandem join up is expected to do this year. the houston dynamo site has one too). i could go on roughly how great it is but in spite of shameless self-presentation has its limits and i’ve condign reached mine.speaking of the red bulls, the team has launched an official blog, the red bulls reader. it offers a lot of in quod stuff you couldn’t get to b intend anywhere else (especially not even with a upon pass). this week they had a post on the team’s bowling trip in austria, to name honest individual recent example.still on the subject of new york/new jersey’s team (more on that impasse in a bit), wvhooligan has an excellent season preview of the team formerly known as the metrostars. in response to the question if the team has done enough to update from last year, wvh states “i don’t improvise they tease done nearly sufficient to compete with dc, fashionable england and the same kansas big apple or chicago.” yep, i’m going to have to approve with that. all of the aforementioned teams made improvements to their roster (in some instances, such as dc united, significant improvements) while red bull did essentially nothing. word has it the new coach is close to signing anecdote or even two players from south america. unless they’re a top gash defender and playmaking midfielder i honestly don’t see how the together commitment make the playoffs this year. but that’s just anyone man’s opinion.mls rumors is class. mls rumors is quality. mls rumors does hot air soccer (and other) journalists everywhere should but don’t because they’re lazy and paucity initiative. case in point: they run down down the u.s. trademark and control office to get us, the fans, the likely names of mls’ next team, which will begin play in seattle next year. this is property that’s publicly handy, folks. why didn’t anybody else muse on of that? why didn’t anybody other than al gore dream up of inventing the internet? we are all mere mortals and they are simply respective levels winning of us.finally, pitchinvasion (which, i very recently notice have in the offing adapted the same wordpress theme an eye to their site that i did for asn) have another curriculum vitae of the high quality we have premiere c end to expect from them, on the potentiality of a second team suitable the unripe york city area, appropriate to play in queens. very interesting stuff, that. (full disclosure: the story also contains a reference to an interview this locale did with the brains behind the team’s supporters trounce band, the borough boys, which i of a piece with to concoct gave the whole venture its start, though that is presumably like al gore thinking he invented the internet).

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Obsession du jour: Sydney Harbour Bridge

Obsession du jour: Sydney Harbour Bridge

I’ve been watching far too many videos on YouTube recently and the Sydney Harbour Bridge caught my eye. Climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge… who knew?

Holy kangaroo drunk on BYOB sheila jackeroo batman, can you imagine the photo opportunities? I have a fear of heights but OMG, I wanna climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge! For realz! The only thing that’s turning me off is that hideous jumpsuit. I bet that jumpsuit stinks like hell. I bet they stink like sweaty poms fresh from Heathrow airport. You see, I have major problems with rented “sports” things. In my short lifespan of 19 years (thank you Conde Nast), I found myself in numerous situations where I had to rent smelly “gear”. For instance, when I got my scuba diving open water course card back in the ages, the jumpsuit I borrowed stank like onions. And when I went ice skating two years ago, the roller skates I had were so awful I doused my feet with rubbing alcohol before and after I skated. I don’t see myself climbing the Harbour Bridge anytime soon but if I do… what would I wear?

Well, click click click for the answer!

Before I tell you what I’m gonna wear, let’s do a little flashback.

For the longest time, I obsessed about going to the Great Wall of China.

When it finally happened, I milked the opportunity for what it’s worth. Check out the lady in the white jacket and where she’s looking at. THIS IS HOW YOU DO FIERCE.

People often tell me how ridiculous I am for wearing Yves Saint Laurent men’s Johnny boots with HEELS but whatevs. What should I wear? Flats?

Hello. The other lady tourist behind me had to do a “LOOK AT ME I’M AT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA” pose but hell, all I had to do was stand there with my starbucks (how hilarious) and I look miles fiercer than her. I know right?

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Yes, modesty is indeed one of my best traits. Hahaha. Just kidding.

Enough about China and more about Sydney!

Now.

I like to fantasize because it’s free and as John Galliano said, dreaming is so much better than reality because reality is overrated.

If ever I get to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge in this lifetime, I ain’t gonna wear that crazy jumpsuit. I’m gonna call my BFF Donatella and ask if she could lend me this jumpsuit from the Versace Spring/Summer 2008 collection.

Check it out. Suvi Kopponen wore it and she’s look #3.

Isn’t it grand?

And because I LOVE the idea of torturing myself, I’ll get Christian Louboutin to customize THESE shoes to make them match my lovely Versays jumpsuit.

I know, right? Give me those shoes and I’ll show you that I could walk in them!!

Once I’m on top of the bridge, I’ll play ballerina, put one of my legs on top of the rails and pose like this.

Can you beat that?

Climbing the bridge takes 3.5 hours and includes a climber certificate and group photo. It costs AU$179 to climb the bridge on a weekday according to BridgeClimb Sydney. Unfortunately, I don’t see my little fantasy happening any time soon even Mandy Moore and Harry Potter wore those suits.

The $64 million question is… who’s gonna make it happen? Who’s gonna make FETCH happen?

Donatella is dat chu?

Answers on a postcard…

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Possible black history trail in Queens

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leading candidates for queens borough president said they support the idea of a black history trail, with sites from the queens news’ history in peril series, including the antediluvian homes of malcolm x, jackie robinson and james brown.

Belgrade boy hit by ricocheting bullet in Stearns County accident

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Encrypting Passwords in a .NET app.config File

I’ve been contributing to the Witty project lately. I’m a fan of Twitter, and it’s nice to work on a popular WPF application with some hotshot coders including a WPF pro like Alan Le. Lately, I noticed that we were storing the user’s password in plaintext application config file:

<surroundings name=”password” serializeas=”string”> <value>oops-we-stored-the-password-in-plaintext</value> </setting>

So, yeah, that’s less than ideal. Foolishly, I volunteered to fix it. There’s plenty of information on encrypting ASP.NET configuration settings in web.config files, but encrypting settings in a desktop application isn’t as well documented. Here’s what I came up with.

DPAPI, Papi!

The best way to encrypt configuration settings is with DPAPI, the Data Protection Application Programmer’s Interface:

This Data Protection API (DPAPI) is a pair of function calls that provide OS-level data protection services to user and system processes. By OS-level, we mean a service that is provided by the operating system itself and does not require any additional libraries. By data protection, we mean a service that provides confidentiality of data through encryption. Since the data protection is part of the OS, every application can now secure data without needing any specific cryptographic code other than the necessary function calls to DPAPI.

That sounds pretty good. But is it secure? Let’s ask old man Wikipedia:

The keys used for encrypting the user’s keys are stored under “%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Protect\{SID}”, where {SID} is the security identifier of that user. The DPAPI key is stored in the same file as the master key that protects the users private keys. It usually is 40 bytes of random data. DPAPI doesn’t store any persistent data for itself; instead, it simply receives plaintext and returns cryptext (or vice-versa).

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DPAPI security relies upon the system’s ability to protect the Master Key and RSA private keys from compromise, which in most attack scenarios is most highly reliant on the security of the end user’s credentials. Particular data binary large objects can be encrypted in a way that salt is added and/or an external user-provided password (aka “Strong Key Protection”) is required. The use of a salt is a per-implementation option - i.e. under the control of the application developer - not controllable by the end user or IT professional.

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Yeah, I didn’t read it either. I did check the footnotes and saw that nobody’s bragging about yoinking data out of it, though. And it has to  be better than storing passwords in plaintext. So, awesome, let’s go for it!

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The easiest way to deal with the problem is to just encrypt the entire section. That’s because the ConfigurationSection knows how to protect itself, like so:

protected override blankness onstartup(startupeventargs e) { // lots of other important stuff here… encryptconfigsection(”usersettings/witty.properties.settings”); form.onstartup(e); } private void encryptconfigsection(string sectionkey) { configuration config = configurationmanager.openexeconfiguration(configurationuse

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Cameron Diaz’s Father Dies From Pneumonia

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tmz.com: tmz has well-grounded that cameron diaz’s father died suddenly early this morning.we’re told the 58-year-old emilio diaz, a popular resident of seal strand, calif., recently developed the flu which then turned into pneumonia. we hear his extirpation was… announce more

you gots to pay the piper

it’s a beautifully sunny 75 degree day here; perfect for entertainment and frolicking, a cruel masking of the fact that it is actually tax day fitting for americans. as i lick the envelope to the $255 check that i owe to the state of colorado (which i nearly forgot about), i wince. this tune makes it sting a little fragment less. not much.mr. taxman (demo) - weezer
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