I just realized I can’t name our senators, but I can remember every word of the “Beverly Hillbillies” theme song. Real Life Adventures cartoon, February 3, 2009
If you can’t remember your senators or representatives, search here: http://memberguide.gpoaccess.gov/

CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
News release: "...experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale. The impact of these errors is far reaching. Just two of them led to more than 1.5 million web site security breaches during 2008--and those breaches cascaded onto the computers of people who visited those web sites, turning their computers into zombies."
The Top 25 Errors are listed below in three categories:
Category: Insecure Interaction Between Components (9 errors)
Category: Risky Resource Management (9 errors)
Category: Porous Defenses (7 errors)

Harvard Prof. on Google and the Future of Books
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book search project, from the New York Review of Books, Google & the Future of Books, by Robert Darnton
"How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright. For the last four years, Google has been digitizing millions of books, including many covered by copyright, from the collections of major research libraries, and making the texts searchable online. The authors and publishers objected that digitizing constituted a violation of their copyrights. After lengthy negotiations, the plaintiffs and Google agreed on a settlement, which will have a profound effect on the way books reach readers for the foreseeable future.

In rhetoric (as defined by Cicero and by the first century Latin text, Rhetorica ad Herennium), the five overlapping offices or divisions of the rhetorical process:
inventio (Greek, heuristics), invention
dispositio (Greek, taxis), arrangement
elocutio (Greek, lexis), style
memoria (Greek, mneme), memory
actio (Greek, hypocrisis), delivery
http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/rhetcanterm.htm

Cat colonies of Rome—about 300,000 cats roam the Roman ruins, some in packs, some fed by Gattara (“cat women”).
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0203/p17s01-hfes.html
http://goeurope.about.com/cs/rome/a/rome_cats.htm

Quote: When life kicks you, let it kick you forward.
Kay Yow, North Carolina State University women’s basketball coach, born in 1942 and died January 24, 2009
http://www.wbca.org/upload/KayYowQuotes.pdf

A or AN? Why do we say a university, a union--an herb, an hour? It’s too hard to close the n in university and union after using AN, so we substitute A. In the case of herb and hour, the Hs are silent. Let your ear be the guide. See more at: http://www.auburn.edu/communications_marketing/askaubie/042705.html

A gamelan is a musical ensemble of Indonesia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan
You may hear them on YouTube, or at a program near your home. Below is a link to groups in the states where our muse readers reside. You will find more complete information at the Web site.

Michael B. Bakan School of Music Florida State University
Friends of the Gamelan The University of Chicago
Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Chicago
Charles Capwell Raharja, dir. School of Music University of Illinois
Judith Becker Music Department University of Michigan
Tamara Fielding 1 Sir Kenneth Court Northport, NY 11768 Phone: (631) 754-5035
Department of Music CB #3320 Hill Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Harnish College of Musical Art Bowling Green State University
Jackson Hill Department of Music Bucknell University
Co-directed by I Nyoman Suadin and Tom Whitman Tom Whitman Department of Music and Dance 500 College Ave. Swarthmore College
http://www.embassyofindonesia.org/education/docpdf/KelompokGamelandiAmerikaSerikat.pdf