Fool Me Once

For any­one who wants to han­dle dynamic DNS (either in con­junc­tion with DHCPd or not) with Bind and absolutely hates the ver­bosity of nsup­date, here’s a shell script which han­dles the common-cases of adding and remov­ing: Forward/reverse entries CNAMEs The com­mand line argu­ments are –k (privkey) –a (action) –h (host­name) –i (ipaddr) –c (cname) –d …

Dying Democracy and Dehumanization

Last Wednesday night, I was call­ing friends to try and do a lit­tle street the­ater down­town Chicago, in the hopes of pro­vid­ing a par­tic­u­larly gritty infomer­cial and gen­er­at­ing pres­sure on the Senate to not pass S.3930 (aka the “Just Confess to Something Act of 2006″). It appears I wasn’t the only one with the same …

Armed Madhouse

Yesterday, I read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I intu­itively under­stood the neo-conservative inva­sion plan and rea­son — the so-called “Plan B” — well enough to describe it as “glob­al­iza­tion by force” in a paper I wrote for a Political Economy course. It’s also nice to know the vaunted-but-ignored State Department …

Feel The Power

So accord­ing to the peo­ple at Protein Wisdom, the rea­son the U.S. is los­ing the war in Iraq (iron­i­cally enough the same peo­ple said the U.S. was win­ning until a fel­low con­ser­v­a­tive clued them in to the fact it wasn’t) is the anti-war pro­test­ers. Aside from the obvi­ous “stab-in-the-back” par­al­lels, there’s a more con­struc­tive interpretation …