2010 Mar 5, 2:54LiveJournal replaces affiliate links with their own... Between this and not being able to stick in videos, script, etc maybe its time to switch blogging sites...
blog livejournal technical 2010 Mar 4, 1:18Listen to Gorillaz new album on NPR before it comes out.
gorillaz music npr album 2010 Mar 3, 2:57As titles go 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter' is right up there with 'Snakes on a Plane'. They can film whatever they want and if they name it 'Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter' I will watch it.
humor move fiction abraham-lincoln vampire 2010 Mar 3, 2:54Really looking forward to some Exchange support post Android 1.6...
android phone cellphone exchange 2010 Mar 3, 4:08humor shirt bomb 2010 Mar 1, 2:24There is an amazing amount of info around about the alleged assassination Mahmoud al-Mabhouh including this Dubai hotel survielance footage.
video crime security privacy wired cctv 2010 Feb 27, 10:17Weave syncs web browser user data. Its an open platform using JSON data, RESTful URL based APIs, with basic auth over HTTPS.
weave firefox web browser mozilla development technical reference 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, 10:12Interesting stuff about Google determining synonyms based on folks changing their search queries.
google search synonym machine-learning english language technical 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, 3:34Check out some lost luggage and their contents.
lost-luggage luggage humor travel clothing 2010 Feb 25, 4:10Comcast is running an opt-in DNSSEC trial for all Comcast customers. Their FAQ covers the incompat. of DNSSEC with their Comcast Domain Helper (typo DNS redirects to Comcast ads... bleh!): "What
happens to Comcast Domain Helper, which offers DNS redirect services, when you fully implement DNSSEC? We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically
incompatible with DNSSEC. Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented." Yay!
dns dnssec comcast faq internet ip security 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 24, 12:42Apparently Washington State uses an algorithm to generate drivers license numbers. Unless someone else has the same name and birth date your license number is based entirely on your name and birth
date.
math identity washington reference 2010 Feb 22, 8:39Live webcast hall of mirrors
humor video recursive fail webcast 2010 Feb 22, 7:34Art created from IKEA products.
art design ikea hack 2010 Feb 22, 4:25Wired's concept for a digital version of their magazine to run on tablets. Looks pretty but of course its running on Flash or somesuch Adobe product.
video wired web adobe magazine 2010 Feb 21, 2:54Internet folk sing about their love of various nerdy things ala xkcd comic of similar name
cory-doctorow wil-wheaton video xkcd humor music song internet meme 2010 Feb 19, 3:20Bing Maps blog post on their integration of Flickr photos onto their street side view. Very cool
flickr photo creativecommons geolocation bing microsoft photography map blog geo 2010 Feb 18, 4:59"At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different
type of nuclear reactor."
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