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Another great episode of Criminal. This one's about a woman in San Francisco who had a thriving pot brownie business in the 70s and 80s.

This podcast by David Reese, Starlee Kine, and the rest is my new jam.

A great story about transforming a public space from this consistently great podcast.

Trying to mitigate all of the known SSL exploits is a challenge. This document is a good summary of current best practices.

Remember your friend from the Cold War, existential terror? It's back in Eric Schlosser's new book. This is a great talk he gave about it. "The consciousness of our nuclear arsenal vanished, but the danger has never left us."

lia put together this record of a Twitter conversation about the current state of Flickr and photo-sharing in general. Depressing: "...nobody cares about lasting value anymore. it's all about what's going on right this second."

Sharing music one track at a time. This is a fun site.

This app is a good replacement for the cumbersome iTunes podcast manager. It downloads podcasts directly, no syncing required.

You're probably already subscribing, but if not: this is the best podcast on the Internet. Merlin Mann and John Roderick discuss things. Humorous things.

Turn any Greasemonkey script into a full-on Firefox extension (Add-On). [via Spun]

Doug Kaye's latest venture.

Jon Udell on public-service podcasting. Excellent ideas here. "This isn't podcasting to build audiences and 'monetize' downloads. It's podcasting to expand access to public discussion."

A bit of JavaScript that creates image reflections a la coverflow. Trendy!

Matt and Jessamyn interviewed me for the MeFi podcast.

For the "podcast someday" list of tools: this will automatically Record Skype Calls On Your Mac

Matt and Jessamyn discuss the week in Metaflter that was. They have a nice rapport, and I think it'll be a great way to find gems across MeFi that I might have missed. (It's like a living, breathing sidebar!)

Cringely speculates that the *real* purpose of the AppleTV is building a massive P2P network for iTunes video distribution. Clever!

Someday everything will be tagged whether we know it or not. I, for one, welcome our new powdery RFID overlords.

J.D. finds a gem for Thanksgiving: Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, 1927

Audio and video from the Web 2.0 conference.

Jerry Michalski on outsiders [via msippey]

an ex World of Warcraft top player explains why he quit: "Then it hit me like a ton of bricks: I was providing them with an escape from their problems and nurturing the very thing that was holding them back." [via waxy]