2008 May 12, 5:13Finally, geez! "Airship Ventures is a corporation formed with the objective of bringing Zeppelin NT airships to the USA for commercial air tours, media and advertising operations, scientific
research, and special missions."
steampunk travel zeppelin via:kris.kowal 2008 May 2, 1:55Avoid sniffing using the HTTP range header: "...if we have an application...which protects against FindMimeFromData XSS attacks by searching the first 256 bytes for certain strings, then we can
simply place our strings after the first 256 bytes and get Fl
via:swannman http http-header range xss security 2008 Apr 24, 12:52Video of GRL's laser based graffiti system at the Museum of Modern Art.
art graffiti grl graffiti-research-lab moma cultural-disobediance laser video 2008 Mar 31, 2:33Clay Shirky gives a talk about how the Internet changes everything via organization and collaboration.
video book clay-shirky via:librarythingblog social talk research internet 2008 Mar 31, 1:08"Why would the bad guys do this? To buy time. ...say you arrived at that site via a search engine and you were clueful and you got owned. You're going to give the URL that tried to exploit you to
your local IT security geek and he's going to paste it i
security web internet spam microsoft blog research 2008 Mar 28, 10:35Scott A Crosby and Dan S Wallach "present a new class of low-bandwidth denial of service attacks that exploit algorithmic deficiencies in many common applications' data structures." DoS via worst
case behavior in hash tables and exponential time RegExp's
scott-crosby dan-wallach dos programming regex research security hash 2008 Mar 9, 1:17"It is, quite frankly, one of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen. Written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to
K-12 education."
via:ethan_t_hein math education paper 2008 Mar 3, 3:32Research paper on progress bar UI improvements counters my thoughts on progress bar demanded for case where we only know when we're done: set progress as function of time where function has asymptote
at %100. Zeno's progress bar.
design gui hci interface paper progress progress-bar usability research 2008 Jan 31, 11:29A lovely infographic style map of underwater cabling. Actually its a poster. And it costs $250. Argh!
via:newscientist graph visualization map network technology underwater cable internet purchase product 2008 Jan 25, 1:54Research paper suggests location aware cellphones ask their owners to charge them when the phones see they're at home.
article newscientist research cellphone battery power microsoft 2008 Jan 24, 9:45Interesting thoughts on using accelerometer info.
via:swannman electronics accelerometer wii wiimote research:wii-remote 2007 Dec 24, 12:41These days it seems like there's a social sharing website for everything representable as bits. Like
Scribd for (mostly legal) documents,
SciVee for scientific research videos,
Wordie for words, and
Kuler for color themes. Kuler seems
like a ridiculous website (overkill) but I had been meaning to update my homepage's color design and Kuler has an
RSS based REST API.
The API lets you obtain things like the most recently added color themes or the most popular or all themes containing the color dark red, etc... So of course rather than update my website's design I
hooked up my css to the color themes coming out of Kuler. Select my main page's color theme from a
list of random Kuler themes. As I'm sure
the regular readers can guess I use
an xslt and blah blah blah... It looks OK with
Silver Surfer and
Happy Hipo but in general
changing the colors this way doesn't produce something pretty.
When reading about Kuler I found that they may have stolen the whole idea wholeslae from
ColourLovers. They discuss
the thievery in an article on their blog. I would have switched over to ColourLovers out of principle but
they don't have an easily accessible API.
colourlovers color xslt theme homepage technical kuler design 2007 Nov 7, 9:44Paper on how to apply honeybee protocol to managing Internet hosting.
bee internet web research paper 2007 Nov 2, 1:29EFF has a fair use video test suite for developers of copyright violation detection software. They picked some good videos.
archive copyright education law legal research video eff 2007 Oct 29, 1:48FTA: "Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian, examining the claims of scaremongering journalists, quack remedy peddlers, pseudoscientific cosmetics
adverts, and evil multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Th
monthly blog science politics religion media news healthy research humor 2007 Oct 9, 5:10Cory Doctorow gives talk to Microsoft research on DRM.
via:thedpshow drm microsoft security politics read cory-doctorow 2007 Oct 8, 3:55FTA: "Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research
operating system prototype (called Singularity)
microsoft os singularity windows research microkernel 2007 Oct 8, 3:18More on Singularity the managed microkernel based Microsoft Research OS.
singularity os wikipedia article microsoft research microkernel 2007 Oct 8, 3:15Microsoft Research is working on Singularity, a new managed microkernel OS.
msdn microsoft channel9 video singularity os research csharp
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