2010 Feb 27, 10:06A web browser add-on security research paper that describes the Google Chrome security model. "We propose a new browser extension system that improves security by using least privilege, privilege
separation,
and strong isolation. Our system limits the misdeeds an attacker can perform through an extension vulnerability.
Our design has been adopted as the Google Chrome extension system."
security design google chrome firefox addon plugin web browser technical research adam-barth system:filetype:pdf system:media:document 2010 Feb 26, 8:50Did I read this already on Paleo-Future? Anyway still an awesome 1995 rant on why the Internet will fail. "Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for
great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an
afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of
capitalism: salespeople."
humor internet fail article history 2010 Feb 26, 5:00
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Jen's going away surprise for me was to add to my Diversity Inc cover artwork with my own photoshopped cover.
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sequelguy posted a photo:
Jen's going away surprise for me was to add to my Diversity Inc cover artwork with my own photoshopped cover. Note the attention to detail in the headlines.
me photoshop office diversity microsoft billgates 2010 Feb 26, 2:42Adam Barth has tons of papers on web browser security.
adam-barth security web browser privacy javascript google chrome research technical 2010 Feb 24, 4:13Wow, its true... the CSS appendices titles start with the letter of their appendix. The 'Appendix E. Elaborate description of Stacking Contexts' is pushing it though.
humor css technical specification reference 2010 Feb 23, 3:13Amazing Lego crawling town
lego art photo flickr steampunk via:boingboing 2010 Feb 22, 1:26"Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of
Google, Inc."
humor internet ie ie6 web browser funeral microsoft 2010 Feb 22, 8:27Its a building with the furniture escaping through windows... art
art san-francisco building window furniture 2010 Feb 22, 7:34Art created from IKEA products.
art design ikea hack 2010 Feb 22, 7:11Video of an artist's conception of our future augmented reality. I like the addition of the video artifacts and the slightly out of sync overlay. I take issue with the sort of video artifacts and the
'level of advertising'. Maybe they had the advertising supported AR goggles...
augmented-reality gui 3d advertising art design video 2010 Feb 22, 6:30Electric vehicles as components of the future smart electric grid, as roaming batteries providing power as necessary.
car electric-vehicle electricity power electric-grid 2010 Feb 22, 5:52Analysis of Facebook friend connections by US cities to determine partitioning of the US.
blog visualization facebook social map geo network graph 2010 Feb 22, 4:16On cheating at Four Square. Man becomes mayor of North Pole among other things.
hack game security humor article geo gps cheat social api technical 2010 Feb 19, 12:04
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parking golfcart abaco bahama 2010 Feb 4, 2:07Infographic oil paintings of things like the historical influences of avant garde or the life of Frank Zappa.
art design visualization information gallery infographics painting ward-shelley via:infosthetics 2010 Feb 4, 2:01On the crappy licensing of the H.264 and MPEG codecs in popular video encoding software.
video encoding codec patent legal law apple microsoft theora h.264 technical 2010 Feb 1, 8:39"Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most
peaceful time in our species' existence." Working up towards Forever Peace?
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