Four short links: 4 September 2009

Flood Maps, Govt Permalinks, Ops, and Security

1. Flood Maps -- what the world will look like when the oceans rise. Interactive, so you can dial up your preferred level of environmental horror. (via Hans Nowak)
2. Citability -- making government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced permalinks, as Government websites are ever changing and cannot be cited. Content changes without notice or accountability.
3. Bootstrapping EC2 Images as Puppet Clients -- This is a post on how to get to the point of using Puppet in an EC2 environment, by automatically configuring EC2 instances as Puppet clients once they're launched. I've been learning that if you're using a cloud hosting service, you need an automated admin tool. (via Grig Gheorghiu). See also the APT repository for Chef.
4. USB Snoop Stick -- Trojan in a convenient form factor, malware on a stick, back doors in your pocket ... and best of all, it's sold to consumers.