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Joss Whedon (and Angel) react to the new Buffy reboot [Buffy]

2010 Nov 22, 9:39Joss Whedon and David Boreanaz respond to the news about the new Buffy movie.
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lcamtuf's blog: HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols

2010 Nov 8, 3:34On crappy aspects of HTTP cookie design.http web browser history technical cookie header networking protocol security programming via:mattb

John Resig - ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More

2010 Oct 6, 7:35Layman summary of ECMAScript 5 strict mode.ecma es5 strict js javascript json reference security technical article john-resig

RFC 6068 - The 'mailto' URI Scheme

2010 Oct 5, 2:54The mailto URI scheme finally gets its own RFC.mailto uri url mail email technical rfc reference encoding

JavaScript - The Evil Parts

2010 Oct 4, 2:10Billy Hoffman on web securitybilly-hoffman javascript web technical security video presentation

draft-nottingham-http-portal - The Network Authentication Required HTTP Status Code

2010 Oct 4, 2:05Proposed 428 HTTP error code for hijacking proxies to indicate to the client the user needs to login to the network etc. Glad to see this one's finally happening.http http-status captive-portal hijack proxy authentication technical rfc reference

Internet Media Types and the Web

2010 Sep 30, 2:48A surprisingly readable and delightfully accurate summary of the history of MIME in the web followed by proposed next steps. Sounds like a plan to me! "We need a realistic transition plan from the unreliable web to the more reliable one. Part of this is to encourage senders (web servers) to mean what they say, and encourage recipients (browsers) to give preference to what the senders are sending."mime contenttype browser web ietf reference history mimetype mime-sniffing sniffing technical

Peer-to-peer tech now powers Wikipedia's videos

2010 Sep 27, 3:15This is awesome and similar to something I got a cube for. Wikipedia runs its videos through a service that sets up torrents for arbitrary URLs. So awesome! Now if only this were built into the user agent rather than requiring hardcoding the sites to use it...technical p2p wikipedia network networking torrent web

Revision 60.000, first bits of the URL API and pingin’ the anchor « Peter Beverloo

2010 Sep 27, 3:08Adam Barth's URI API draft starts to appear in webkit: "One of the things Adam Barth is currently working on is an URL API. Citing it, the API can be used for constructing, parsing and resolving URLs through scripting, easening up tasks like getting and setting parameters. Today the first part landed in WebKit, which added the “origin” property."webkit adam-barth uri url api javascript dom html html5 browser webbrowser technical

Google Launches 'The Google' For Older Adults | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

2010 Sep 8, 4:11Unfortunately it looks like TheGoogle.com is not available...humor google search technical

Video+html5+Popcorn.js=hyper-video - Standblog

2010 Aug 22, 4:04Demo of marked-up video with the people and places shown in the video popping up along side in real time.video html html5 javascript technical mozilla