We! Are! Sparta! (Taken with Instagram at Lake City, CO)

The court yard

Would you like to help fund the TEDxOilSpill Expedition? We’ve heard from a number of people that are interested in helping out on an individual basis and we can definitely use your help. We’re committed to making this a success, but with the speed with which we’ve pulled this together and the…

My key:

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If even 1/4 of this is true we are screwed.

Thanks again reddit more from the thread that must be shared!

And now it all comes together:

Tried and failed to keep up with Michael Starks “Week of OSSEC” post count for my own “Week of OSSEC”.

What I did write and finish can be found here:

• OSSEC: Agentless to save the day
• OSSEC: Agentless scripts
• OSSEC: Agentless…It’s good, but not good enough

Just watch the whole thing. Thanks to @danixrossi for the find on this one.

@rakolam sent me this link and I had to post it here.

From: Confessions Of A Police Officer

Sometimes my stereo is too loud. Andrea Bocelli’s voice makes it easier to forget the wasted body of the young man who died alone in a rented room because his family feared the stigma of AIDS. Beethoven’s 9th symphony erases the sight of the nurses who sobbed as they scrubbed layers of dirt and slime from a neglected 2-year-old’s skin. The Rolling Stones’ angry beat assures me that it was ignorance that drove a young mother to draw blood when she bit her toddler on the cheek in an attempt to teach him not to bite.

Makes your hard days look easy.

Jon Stewart hits this one right on the head. :)

Wow. (Thanks goes to @rakolam)

A co-worker has put up a few post about Windows that are well worth the to time read:

• Server 2008 R2: Active Directory Functional Levels
• 2008 Server to the Core
• Who’s Being Promiscuous in Your Active Directory? <- Great for finding sniffers and who’s running VMware in you environment.

From: Wired: An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

For starters, the human brain has a natural tendency to pattern-match — to ignore the old dictum “correlation does not imply causation” and stubbornly persist in associating proximate phenomena. If two things coexist, the brain often tells us, they must be related. Some parents of autistic children noticed that their child’s condition began to appear shortly after a vaccination. The conclusion: “The vaccine must have caused the autism.” Sounds reasonable, even though, as many scientists have noted, it has long been known that autism and other neurological impairments often become evident at or around the age of 18 to 24 months, which just happens to be the same time children receive multiple vaccinations. Correlation, perhaps. But not causation, as studies have shown.

I don’t know how many times I have caught myself connecting things that should not be connected. This is great article and, for me, a great reminder that: correlation does not imply causation

Oct. 23: Rachel Re: Rachel Maddow points out what has been largely overlooked in the discussion of the White House feud with Fox News, that explains why Fox is not news.

(via reddit

Rachel in 7 minutes completely explained why foxnews should be view as a political outlet for the GOP.