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This isn’t a bad deal at all: $15 for an SSL certificate recognized as valid by any moderately-recent webbrowser. Perfect for your home-run webmail server.

*Jawdroppingly* idiotic rant from Cory, trying to draw anti-DRM points from a completely non-DRM-related security flaw in iTunes. Is it my imagination, or is his signal to ranting-clueless-fuckwit ratio dropping of late?

I happened upon this last week, and it’s bloody fantastic. A complete unedited 100-minute Bill Hicks act from 1992. Due to his early death, Hicks gets a lot of messianic hyperbole, but listening to this act, it’s a reminder that a) he was a very smart guy getting angry at the same stuff that’s still going on today in America, and b) he is an incredibly talented stand-up, whose skill at reading the audience and winning them back round with dick jokes after losing them to rants on US politics is nothing short of masterful.

This is a long MeFi thread, but worth reading. Summary: Someone posts to mefi asking if it’s possible to catch an ebay scammer. Turns out said questioner *is* an eBay scammer. Collected MeFi masses turn up addresses, bio, photos, etc on scammer. Now in police hands.

BitTorrent tracker focused on video content of a suitable resolution for video iPods.

You can now get XM stations on DirecTV (replacing the old MusicChoice channels). I particularly recommend “Lucy” (alternative greatest hits) and “Ethel” (current alternative music) on channels 838 and 834.

Weebl’s made plushy toys out of Magical Trevor, BadgerBadgerBadger and Weebl & Bob. Anyone who’s not sure what to get me for my Christmas… HINT!

Google continues their quest to consume every nibble of data on the internet — This time, site access logs.

Which digest site gets you the new faster?