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February 24, 2006
"I saw death rising from the earth, from the ground itself, in one blue field, in stubbled color."
I've got a bunch of sciencey links I could post, but I think I'll save those for this weekend...
- There's an interesting article in Wired that explains all the delays Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly adaptation has endured. I say it's interesting—for example, who knew that Winona Ryder was Timothy Leary's goddaughter?—but beware...it's also as disillusioning as examining a cross-section of a McRib sandwich. This tale of woe involves animators getting locked out of their office while they went to go get coffee, and Linklater saying he never wants to do another animated film. via
- Thad Anderson was clever enough to file a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Defense for a copy of Steven Cambone's notes from his meetings on 9/11 with Rumsfeld. Then, even better, he posted the notes to Flickr. Those notes are where the 9/11 Commission, amongst others, discovered that Rumsfeld wanted to go after "things related and not" to the attacks. via
The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).
In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4, 2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack, and to my knowledge, have not been independently confirmed by any other source. After the Rathergate fiasco, I wondered if CBS had been fooled into publishing a story that, from a publicity perspective, seemed too good to be true.
Finally, these documents unveil a previously undisclosed part of the 2:40 PM discussion. Several lines below the "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. at same time" line, Cambone's notes from the conversation read: "Hard to get a good case."
- Acclaimed conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, upon viewing the Flickr gallery, was shocked! Which is hilarious, since, as Matt Yglesias points out, all of us who cared had known the contents for years. The only thing that's changed now is we have scans of the actual handwritten notes. via
- Great MetaFilter post of free online educational resources. Perfect for the autodidact.
Simply stated, Netcat makes and accepts Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) connections. That’s it! Netcat writes and reads data over those connections until they are closed. It provides a basic TCP/UDP networking subsystem that allows users to interact manually or via script with network applications and services on the application layer. It lets us see raw TCP and UDP data before it gets wrapped in the next highest layer such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), or Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Posted by Jon Rubin at February 24, 2006 03:40 PM
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