October 20th at the Maryland Fairgrounds!

The website isn’t ready.

In an age of wikipedia and craigslist and really successful DIY-with-a-CMS sites which teens throw together with professionally (and non-professionally) designed look and feel templates a-plenty; hiring an organization to “design” a website like that is an anachronism. Well, it should be.

They should have focused on the content, worked up a sitemap, and pointed to hosting, a CMS, and good partners—the “web design firm” that is, not the folks running the festival as they obviously have other specialties. A wordpress blog with comments disabled and five or seven static pages on the same .com would be cake to set up. Throw the logo at the top, push the pictures to a flickr set, add google maps integration for the directions page, link to all the vendors and sponsors everywhere possible, spam it to local communities looking for volunteers and then refine, refine, refine. A myspace or facebook page would have been sufficient even.

Rant, rant, rant.

All that said, I’m thinking about volunteering to help at the event, if they are taking any.

@wardspan where are the cool kids?

RT @0xcharlie: Yeah! @dionthegod won the pwnie for best research. Congrats!

@jackwillk welcome, I am at the far side of the pool wishing I had my suit.

New school: The Verizon 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2010/07/28/2010-dbir-released/

@charmsec I'll need you to set up the Skype telepresence rig you promised me. I look forward to catching up w/ those of you in LV this week!

Because @_defcon_ attendees are changing their profile pictures to network easier, I've found a video to augment mine: http://goo.gl/ATYN

@kathybarnett it's tough to cycle without going clipless. The real advantage though: Goofy shoes + Bunny-hops.

I'm clicking a cow. http://goo.gl/Wiad

"Hi, I hold ignorant and often illogical, divisive positions."

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"refudiate—oops, refute/repudiate. *undo*"

LANGUAGE GAFFES! BURN HER!

One of our cats has a clear plastic cone-collar on 'til something clears up. Her reaction suggest like she's experiencing the 4th dimension.

I͈̮͕̼͓̗͚̎͗̊̈́ͤ̋t͍͉͎͇̫̥͍̿͒̔̊̏'s͖̻̩̙̮̘͇ Z̮̱̼̟̘̙̰ͪͭa̮̗̱͙̞̻͛̂ͅl͕̋́̽d̲̰̱ͯͅo͚ͮ͑ͨ͋̋̓ ̗̳͚̯ͫ̉͐̂ͫͨḁ͚̩̗̂̂̊ͨ̊g͚͚̘̜̦̲ͦ̊ͭ̇̚ͅa̝ͥ͂ͭ̍̿ȉ͈͆ͬ̃̌n̼͙͉͚̜̾͆ͯ̾̂.

Logged User-Agent strings differing from legit ones by typos or truncation are: a) Purloined letters b) Lazy c) Stupid d) What are logs?

@will_torres uh, hey Will?

Wanna see my bracket for the World Cup?

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@bbaskin An expanded URL only claims to not be a 302. The web is a Skinner box: I just frantically click on everything underlined. Yay!

I accidentally bought a large-print _Evil_Eye_The_Origins_And_Practices_of_Superstition. And you know what that means. http://goo.gl/WmAk

@jackwillk getting back into home brewing is as easy as having an address to ask @MoreBeer_B3 to send ingredients to. Go for it!

I enjoyed @cshirky's Cognitive Surplus this week.

Where Carr seems to continue rediscovering Plato on media, Shirky finds opportunity.

"Memes!", H4cKe® said, kicking up his feet to pause from writing "show-us-your-tits" jokes on his black-background website. #pebkac

@jackwillk at least you acknowledge that your fear is irrational! http://goo.gl/2kZ0