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, 6:15Finally giving the javascript URI scheme its own IETF doc.
javascript ietf url uri scheme reference technical 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, 10:06A 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, 8:40
I'm making a switch from the IE team to the Windows team where I'll be working on the next version of Windows. As a going away surprise Jen and Nick added me to my gallery of Bill Gates (discussed previously). Here's a close up of the photoshopped cover.
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microsoft bill gates photoshop windows 2010 Feb 26, 2:41Knock off Internet Explorer cufflinks available on eBay. I know, you totally thought these were legit, right?
humor ie web browser gift wishlist purchase cufflink 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, 9:21"Onstage at TED2010, TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Google's Sergey Brin about the company's recent statement on China."
ted video sergey-brin google china security privacy censorship technical 2010 Feb 23, 10:04Android augmented reality app that does facial recognition and then hovers icons for that person's profiles on various websites.
augmented-reality mobile internet identity android phone technical 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, 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, 3:23This doesn't seem real but its still funny. If Feynman answered the 'why are manholes round' question: "... Interviewer: But just considering the round ones, why are they round? Feynman: If we are
just considering the round ones, then they are round by definition. That statement is a tautology. ..."
humor feynman microsoft puzzle interview 2010 Feb 22, 3:19Cristian Adam has created a HTML5 Video plugin for IE. Cool!
html html5 video plugin ie7 ie8 ie technical web browser cristian-adam 2010 Feb 19, 3:20Bing Maps blog post on their integration of Flickr photos onto their street side view. Very cool
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