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Thursday, March 20, 2003

Editha. William Dean Howells "That ignoble peace! It was no peace at all, with that crime and shame at our very gates." She was conscious of parroting the current phrases of the newspapers, but it was no time to pick and choose her words. She must sacrifice anything to the high ideal she had for him, and after a good deal of rapid argument she ended with the climax: "But now it doesn't matter about the how or why. Since the war has come, all that is gone. There are no two sides any more. There is nothing now but our... [Moon Farmer] 9:55:42 PM  Permalink  comment []

Movie Locations Movie Locations. Hey! This Is Where They Filmed That Scene Where... [MetaFilter] 9:39:53 PM  Permalink  comment []

We Thought We Were Done With These Things We thought we were done with these things But we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. We thought the long train would run to the end of Time. We thought the light would increase. Now the long train stands derailed And the bandits loot it. Now the boar and the asp have power in our time. Now the night rolls back on the West And the night is solid. Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. - Stephen Vincent Benet, 1935 8:11:02 PM  Permalink  comment []

William Gibson on John Shirley [bOing bOing] A nice paragraph on Shirley's "City Come A-Walkin'," which is a novel I enjoyed very much when it came out. I have a copy of the new edition of the novel, but it's still on my 'to read' pile, which is, alas, very high and teetering. 7:21:19 PM  Permalink  comment []

Ten Security Checks for PHP, Part 1. The same global access that makes web apps useful means that you have to keep on top of security. Though it's easy to create sites in PHP, it's not immune to sloppy coding. Clancy Malcolm explains how to recognize and fix five potential security holes with PHP in the first of two articles. [O'Reilly Network Articles] 7:00:31 PM  Permalink  comment []

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