– The Smoking Gun has posted the original police report about the Ben Roethlisberger fiasco in Milledgeville here. It’s pretty disgusting.
– Speaking of The Smoking Gun, I just noticed that they have greatly expanded their archive of concert riders. Who knew that Def Leppard ate more like grandparents than rock stars?
– In an interview with Cnet, famous hacker Marc Maiffret has declared Microsoft software to be more secure than Apple’s. Specifically, he says that Apple tries “to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses. Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s found a new Apple vulnerability. If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn’t claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very much not.” Read the entire interview – it’s really worth it.
– While we’re on the subject of security… for a while now, I’ve been trying to tell people that the popular “alternative” PDF reader Fox-It is not necessarily any more secure than Adobe Reader. Here’s at least one person who agrees with me.
– Perhaps it surprised researchers, but news that tainted fruits and veggies end up in overpriced inner-city markets rather than the ‘burbs is no news to me.
– Hey, do you have a spare £6.2 million lying around? Then you could have bought a rare 17th century Persian rug from Christies. The rug, which sold for 20 times what the auction house had expected, is now known as the “World’s Most Expensive Rug”.