Banana Wind

Shamelessly stolen from RumShopRyan:

• 1 jigger of Light Rum
• 1 jigger of Creme de Banana
• 1 jigger of White Creme de Cacao
• 2 jiggers Cream
• 1/2 of a ripened Banana
• Cherry and Pineapple garnish

Fill blender one-quarter with ice. Add ingredients. Blend until smooth and pour into frosted glass. Garnish. Raise glass and toast.

Midori Margaritas

Sounds nummy to me... A Rum Infused Life: Midori Margaritas

A Midori Margarita recipe for bidding summer adieu.

1 1/2 oz white/clear Tequila (you can use regular tequila, but the color will look bad when mixed with the green Midori)

1/2 oz triple sec

1 oz fresh lime juice

1/2 oz Midori melon liqueur

Salt

Prepare it as you would any other margarita - moisten the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice and dip in salt. Shake ingredients together, and pour into a glass filled with crushed ice.

Bushwacker time!

I want to try this one sometime soon... sounds good to me.

Bushwacker time!, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Bushwacker recipe: equal parts of Bailys (or Carolans, a cheaper version of Bailys), Kahlua, Vodka, Rum (Cruzan of course), Amaretto, Cream of coconut. Blend with ice, top with fresh nutmeg. Yummy!

(Bushwacker time! via Live De Life Living in the USVI's.)

Schneier on Security: RFID Personal Firewall

(Clearly I'm behind on my reading.......)

Man, how did I not think of this! Brilliant!

Schneier on Security: RFID Personal Firewall

Absolutely fascinating paper: "A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration." The basic idea is that you carry a personalized device that jams the signals from all the RFID tags on your person until you authorize otherwise.

Abstract

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the RFID Guardian, the first-ever unified platform for RFID security and privacy administration. The RFID Guardian resembles an “RFID firewall”, enabling individuals to monitor and control access to their RFID tags by combining a standard-issue RFID reader with unique RFID tag emulation capabilities. Our system provides a platform for coordinated usage of RFID security mechanisms, offering fine-grained control over RFID-based auditing, key management, access control, and authentication capabilities. We have prototyped the RFID Guardian using off-the-shelf components, and our experience has shown that active mobile devices are a valuable tool for managing the security of RFID tags in a variety of applications, including protecting low-cost tags that are unable to regulate their own usage.

As Cory Doctorow points out, this is potentially a way to reap the benefits of RFID without paying the cost:

Up until now, the standard answer to privacy concerns with RFIDs is to just kill them -- put your new US Passport in a microwave for a few minutes to nuke the chip. But with an RFID firewall, it might be possible to reap the benefits of RFID without the cost.

General info here. They've even built a prototype.

(RFID Personal Firewall via Schneier on Security.)

Torture Bill as C Code

Having made this coding error several times myself, this makes me laugh.

Schneier on Security: Torture Bill as C Code

Kevin boils down the new terrorist (and others) arrest/detainment/torture bill into a small piece of C code:

if (person = terrorist) {
     punish_severely();
} else {
     exit(-1);
}

There's one obvious error, but there are other problems with the code. Anyone care to comment? (BoingBoing commentary.)

(Torture Bill as C Code via Schneier on Security.)

Dying with your Passwords

Schneier on Security: Dying with your Passwords

Interesting story on the risks of dying without telling anyone your computer passwords.

(Dying with your Passwords via Schneier on Security.)

Abortion manual for the women of South Dakota

kottke.org: Abortion manual for the women of South Dakota

In reaction to the South Dakota Senate passing an abortion ban bill, a woman named Molly has posted an abortion manual for the women of South Dakota:

In the 1960s and early 1970s, when abortions were illegal in many places and expensive to get, an organization called Jane stepped up to the plate in the Chicago area. Jane initially hired an abortion doctor, but later they did the abortions themselves. They lost only one patient in 13,000 -- a lower death rate than that of giving live birth. The biggest obstacle they had, though, was the fact that until years into the operation, they thought of abortion as something only a doctor could do, something only the most trained specialist could perform without endangering the life of the woman.

They were deceived -- much like you have probably been deceived. An abortion, especially for an early pregnancy, is a relatively easy procedure to perform. And while I know, women of South Dakota, that you never asked for this, now is the time to learn how it is done. There is no reason you should be beholden to doctors -- especially in a state where doctors have been refusing to perform them, forcing the state's only abortion clinic to fly doctors in from elsewhere.

(via cyn-c)

(Abortion manual for the women of South Dakota via kottke.org.)