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“The Big Head by San Francisco artist Dan Rosenfeld is an...

2011 Nov 15, 11:54


“The Big Head by San Francisco artist Dan Rosenfeld is an oversize video conferencing helmet that displays an enlarged version of the wearer’s face on a 24″ monitor at the front of the helmet. Rosenfeld debuted the helmet at this year’s Halloween” (via The Big Head, A Giant Videoconferencing Helmet by Dan Rosenfeld)

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(via Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton, Featuring Sara Quin)

2011 Nov 15, 11:52


(via Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton, Featuring Sara Quin)

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A The New York Times ‘Vows’ series entry parody from Jena...

2011 Nov 14, 12:40


A The New York Times ‘Vows’ series entry parody from Jena Friedman.

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ShapeCatcher

2011 Nov 14, 12:37

Draw ShapeCatcher a symbol and ShapeCatcher shows you the characters in Unicode that look similar.  Try a smiley face.  (via Eric Lawrence)

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FireFox doesn't have innerText

2011 Nov 14, 12:34

I wrote my HTML against IE9 and continually validated with Chrome as I went. Afterward I tried it in FireFox and found out that FireFox has textContent whereas IE9 & Chrome have innerText

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NYTimes Sues US For Refusing To Reveal Secret Interpretation Of Patriot Act (techdirt.com)

2011 Oct 20, 6:52
Wow, FTA: "Given all of this, reporter Charlie Savage of the NY Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the federal government's interpretation of its own law... and had it refused. According to the federal government, its own interpretation of the law is classified."
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Bug Spotting: Smart pointers and parameter evaluation order

2011 Oct 19, 5:58
The following code works fine. I have a ccomptr named resolvedUri and I want to update its hostname so I do the following:
        CreateIUriBuilder(resolvedUri, 0, 0, &builder);
        builder->SetHost(host);
        builder->CreateUri(0xFFFFFFFF, 0, 0, &resolvedUri);


But the following similar looking code has a bug:
    ResolveHost(resolvedUri, &resolvedUri);


The issue is that doing &resolvedUri gets the address of the pointer but also clears out the pointer due to the definition of my smart pointer class:
    operator T**()  
    {  
        T *ptrValue = mPtrValue;
        mPtrValue->Release();
        mPtrValue = NULL;
        return &ptrValue;
    }


In C++ there’s no guarantee about the order in which parameters for a function or method are evaluated. In the case above, &resolvedUri clears out the ccomptr before evaluating resolvedUri.Get() and so ResolveHostAlias gets a nullptr.

An interesting and related thread on stack overflow on undefined behavior in C++.
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"Deprecating Use of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols" - Peter Saint-Andre, D. Crocker, Mark Nottingham

2011 Oct 19, 2:07
Don't prefix your proprietary URI schemes with "x-". Your company name or label reversed domain name is acceptable though.
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Man Unfortunately Sleeps Like Baby

2011 Oct 18, 7:16
Just discussing this recently. Maybe sleeps like a baby is meant to indicate the depth of the sleep and not the duration?
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Portal 2's Turret Lullaby comic sheds light and lasers on the singing turrets

2011 Oct 2, 4:30
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The three terrifying minutes that created The Gunstringer

2011 Sep 29, 8:35This story is funny and also reminds me to go eat at Matador... "Twisted Pixel chief creative officer Josh Bear had responded with abounding confidence, if only to mask the truth. Because the fact of the matter, the fact that he and CEO Mike Wilford were all too aware of, as they sat in Redmond, WA Tex-Mex restaurant The Matador, was this: The idea wasn't "awesome." It was nonexistent."
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Nintendo Game Maps

2011 Sep 28, 10:22They've got maps from your favorite NES games as giant images. I'm using SMB3 1-1 as my desktop background. I've got a four monitor setup now and so its tough to find desktop backgrounds but Mario levels easily cover my whole desktop.PermalinkCommentsgame videogame map nintendo nes

The Most Anticipated Shoe of All Time: Q+A With Someone Who Won A Pair of Marty McFly's Futuristic Kicks | Motherboard

2011 Sep 20, 9:27Interview with someone who bought the limited edition Back to the Future shoes: "[Interviewer] Have you watched the Back to the Future movies? [Respondent] Yeah, some of em. The hoverboards and shit. That was cool." ARGH! Not worthy!PermalinkCommentshumor bttf nike shoes

[html5] Web Workers: Race-Condition setting onmessage handler?

2011 Sep 20, 7:17There's no race between posting to a web worker and the web worker setting up its message handler as long as the web worker sets its message handler in the first sync. block of code that runs in the web worker: "Basically, once the initial worker script returns, the worker's port is enabled and the normal message port event delivery mechanism kicks in (including dropping unhandled messages on the floor)."PermalinkCommentstechnical web-worker webbrowser programming postMessage

Owlboy Demo

2011 Aug 22, 2:00Owlboy is lovely old school 16bit side scrolling platforming and adventuring fun!PermalinkCommentsgame 16bit owl

Eric Lawrence and Adam Barth on Strict-Transport-Security

2011 Aug 22, 9:27PermalinkCommentshttps http http-header technical strict-transport-security browser

Using Progress Indicators in Windows PowerShell

2011 Jul 27, 10:33The write-progress command in powershell allows scripts to express their progress in terms of percent or time left and powershell displays this in a friendly manner at the top of my window. Surprisingly, not hooked up to the Shell's TaskbarItemInfo's progress.PermalinkCommentstechnical powershell progress coding shell

MAMA: The "average" Web page - Dev.Opera

2011 Jul 26, 10:00Opera has stats on what an 'average' web page looks like it in terms of HTML elemenets and attributes used etc.PermalinkCommentsweb development html statistics technical opera

manifestR - offline web apps made easy (well easier)

2011 Jul 14, 7:34A bookmarklet to help you create an appcache manifest: "...click the manifestR button, and it will create an HTML5 appcache manifest file for that page."PermalinkCommentsdevelopment javascript tools html5 cache technical

And The Band Played On (Featuring Weird Al Yankovic) - CollegeHumor Video

2011 Jul 13, 3:31PermalinkCommentsweird-al video humor music titanic
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