I noticed today that my Taiwan trip gallery shows up empty. A followup shows that the files exist on my system… although a search also reveals several Gallery exploits out there, including a recently found remote exploit. A cursory glance through the logs doesn’t turn up anything fishy (tac | grep gallery | grep HTTP_ to check if the exploit had been run)

(Update: ok, looks like a corrupted photo.dat. After poking around a bit, I figured out how it works. Luckily, only the last photo entry was truncated, and I fixed it by copying the missing data from the photo before it)

Keeping the Sword of Righteousness, and Other Sharp Objects, Away From Mentalfundalists – hilarious deconstruction of stupid, bigoted editorial.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” Revelation 20:12

Uh huh. How about this one:

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
— I Corinthians 14:34-35 (NIV)

How many times do you think Susan Sanford has been disgraceful in church? Do you think she ran this by her hubby?

Like many others, I’ve been pretty aghast at the idea of a constitutional amendment designed to explicity deny rights to a certain group of individuals. That’s about the most ‘unamerican’ thing that I can think of. (secondarily, as a states right issue, it’s a bad idea as well)

See also: women’s suffrage, civil rights movements

Between school, work and more work I’ve been MIA lately. But, can’t miss Grey Tuesday.

Others have and continue to wax on about the ongoing philosophical and moral vicissitudes of copyright. And rightly so. It’s certainly something I’ve given a lot of thought to over the past few years, but I’ll pass this time around. Well, maybe I’ll indulge a little bit… It’s interesting, the cultural works which we consider most transgressive, against which the most drastic punitive measures are taken. While not always the case, often-times, it is this illegal art that speaks the most about our society.

(For those w/ the libjpeg programs installed, greyscaling your images is a jpegtran (-grayscale) away.)

Andy’s tracking this all.

(Update: the EFF has posted up an analysis of the copyright laws involved: Grey Tuesday: A Quick Overview of the Legal Terrain)

There’s not a lot of open source (or any, actually) systems that facilitate easy creation of multiple adhoc communities. Anyone know of any offhand?