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The EFF published a scorecard that shows which messaging apps keep messages most secure.

In the face of widespread Internet surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products—but are these systems actually secure? We decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for Secure & Usable Crypto.</blockquote>

(Via Gabi’s Instagram)

The Guardian published a collection of 25 famous photos of the legendary boxer, Muhammad Ali.

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day site has an amazing picture of an Aurora over Norway taken by Max Rive. I especially like the climber standing with hands raised at the summit of the mountain.

This is my favorite song by my favorite fictional 80s rock band, Love Handle.

This line always gets me: “Like a ninja of love, repelling down from above, you snuck your way right into my heart.”

The kids spent 45 minutes this morning sitting still on the couch, listening to this and other Phineas and Ferb songs.

This is the one day of the year when I understand the value of daylight savings time. I haven’t had this high of sleep quality in months.

There is nothing you can do to seem more wealthy to a kid than to hand out full-sized candy bars on Halloween.

There is nothing you can go to appear more wealthy to a kid than to hand out full sized candy bars on Halloween.</div>

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(via Scripting.com)

Darth Vader lives a busy life.

Gabi is participating in a 30-day Yoga challenge during the month of October. I’ve been in charge of taking most of the photos (for some she sets up the timer or grabs a screenshot from a video). Here are a few of my favorites:

This one is not from her Yoga challenge but is also awesome.

I love this scene from How to Train Your Dragon 2. There is such a feeling of freedom and trust.

The movie is very good overall, despite some ham-fisted dialogue. Some of the lines seemed like callbacks to scenes that got cut from the final version.

The baby girl fell asleep late yesterday afternoon while rocking in the tree swing in the back yard. She had taken an especially short nap earlier in the day and just nodded off while the boys played.

Well, they’re not really of my family. The illustrations below are by Pascal Campion and are of his family, which happens to have a very similar size and structure to mine. He posts one illustration each day, and I’ve found myself sending Gabi the ones that remind me most of our family. 

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Twitter is down. This is why I think it is important to have my own site. If my site goes down, it’s probably my fault…and I can probably fix it.

This comic by Stuart McMillen suggests Aldoux Huxley had a more accurate prediction of the future in Brave New World than George Orwell had in 1984–at least for this generation.

(via thecitrusreport.com)

To enjoy properly, you’ll have to click to zoom and then scroll and scroll.

In the early 70s, Tippi Hedren–of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds fame–lived with her husband, teenage daughter, and a cat…but not your ordinary house cat.

My parents celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary today. I’m so thankful that they found each other. via