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Fourteen Years Ago I Celebrated One Year of Podcast Listening
Two of the four podcasts I wrote about in 2006 remain in production and are still available on my iPod iPhone.
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Monday, March 2, 2020
No, Facebook is not telling you everything. Twitter and Facebook have pulled out out of SXSW citing coronavirus concerns. It befuddles me that conference organizers have not yet canceled the event, which will bring tens of thousands of people into confined areas throughout Austin. Firefox turns new encryption on by default in the U.S., making…
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Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2020
Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2020 is now available. Pay what you can afford –– as little as $1 –– for up to nineteen digital, DRM-free cybersecurity titles: Secure yourself a new bundle of cybersecurity ebooks! Get ebooks like Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications, Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering, Social Engineering: The Science of…
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Kirsten Gillibrand Proposes U.S. Data Protection Agency
via Protocol: The so-called Data Protection Act of 2020 would create the country’s first data protection agency to oversee how privacy laws in America are enforced and guide Congress on the development of those laws. The agency would be empowered to impose penalties on companies that violate people’s privacy, taken them to court, field consumer…
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Ted Williams
Ted Williams played his last game 17 years before I was born, but I’ve been heavily invested in the myth of one of baseball’s greatest hitters since I was a kid. In addition to being a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time American League MVP, and a two-time Triple Crown winner, Williams was a pilot, flight instructor,…
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Online Archive of Mexican Cookbooks 1789-present
The University of Texas at San Antonio maintains a collection of more than 2,000 Mexican cookbooks dating back to 1789: In addition to broad general coverage, the collection includes concentrations in the areas of regional cooking, healthy and vegetarian recipes, corporate advertising cookbooks, and manuscript recipe books.
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Westminster, London
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This Old Cat
One summer afternoon about 20 years ago, I sat in a stranger’s living room and watched as Lauren sorted through a litter of free kittens. She lifted a small tabby no larger than a tangerine, kissed his head and declared him perfect. We brought him home to our small apartment and named him Cajun. We…
Michael Castellon 