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 …

On Deploying OpenLDAP

One of the things I noted about the dis­cus­sions sur­round­ing “Web 2.0″ was the idea that blogs were the next weapon in guerilla mar­ket­ing, fol­low­ing the fail­ure of var­i­ous astro­turf cam­paigns to gar­ner any actual sup­port due to ease with which they were exposed. The idea is that what­ever the fail­ings of free cul­ture, it …