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New Status Code -- 2xx Greedy Hotel? from Mark Nottingham on 2007-03-15 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 2007)

2010 Apr 6, 11:17A thread on HTTPBIS concerning about how one might standardize hotels and other such proxies that inject redirects to their own payment or T&C agreement sites.PermalinkCommentshttp httpbis reference ietf network

Client-side Cross-domain Security

2010 Mar 31, 7:54"Summary: Exploring cross-domain threats and use cases, security principles for cross-origin requests, and finally, weighing the risks for developers to enhance cross-domain access from web applications running in the browser."PermalinkCommentstechnical msdn microsoft security xss XMLHttpRequest web browser

EricLaw's IEInternals : HTTP/HTTPS Port-Blocking in WinINET

2010 Mar 26, 5:16Interesting point that web browsers block HTML FORMs from submitting to some ports in order to avoid malicious servers from getting clients to do their dirty work. Of course it requires the host on the other side of that port to be able to interpret the HTTP request as something relevant to the protocol they actually expect.PermalinkCommentssecurity web browser ie http html form technical

Eschuk comments on If you became the last person on Earth, what would you do? Realistically.

2010 Mar 12, 10:03Eschuk has fairly detailed strategy for last person on Earth scenario. Humrous comments follow.

itdest1983: "I hate to be a debbie downer and question this incredibly awesome and very intelligent plan, but my question is: Why? Other than sustaining life simply to avoid death, why? ..."

Eschuk : "Then someones got some existential shit to hash out. ..."PermalinkCommentshumor reddit strategy apocalypse

15 Clever, Witty Illustrations - My Modern Metropolis

2010 Mar 12, 8:58Various sometimes entertaining or humorous tshirt designs available from purchase all from Chow Hon Lam. I enjoy the ginger bread men shirt
PermalinkCommentsshirt humor tshirt design purchase gift

Database - WEBAPPS

2010 Mar 5, 10:21Document explaining the relationship between the various web storage APIs coming out of HTML 5. To summarize:
Web Storage (aka DOM Storage) - simple key/value pairs API.
WebSimple DB API - now called Indexed Database API.
Indexed Database API and Web SQL Database - competing database APIs.
Application Cache - Storage of HTTP resources for offline apps.
DataCache API - A programmatically modifiable Application Cache.PermalinkCommentshtml html5 standard programming technical wiki w3c database storage web

Not your father's PageRank

2010 Feb 26, 10:12Interesting stuff about Google determining synonyms based on folks changing their search queries.PermalinkCommentsgoogle search synonym machine-learning english language technical

Comcast DNSSEC Trial FAQs

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!PermalinkCommentsdns dnssec comcast faq internet ip security technical

Announcement | IE6 Funeral

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."PermalinkCommentshumor internet ie ie6 web browser funeral microsoft

PeteSearch: How to split up the US

2010 Feb 22, 5:52Analysis of Facebook friend connections by US cities to determine partitioning of the US.PermalinkCommentsblog visualization facebook social map geo network graph

Wired Magazine Goes Digital - Video - Wired

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.PermalinkCommentsvideo wired web adobe magazine

[tcpm] Tuning TCP parameters for the 21st century

2010 Feb 19, 2:43A Googler's thoughts on tuning TCP params for better perf.PermalinkCommentsgoogle performance network tcp technical

Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! | Video on TED.com

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."PermalinkCommentsted bill-gates video environment energy

Thought Experiments and Design Principles

2010 Jan 29, 3:54

Raymond Chen has some thought experiments useful for discovering various kinds of stupidity in software design:

Tim Berners-Lee's principles of Web design includes my favorite: Test of Independent Invention. This has a thought experiment containing the construction of the MMM (Multi-Media Mesh) with MRIs (Media Resource Identifiers) and MMTP (Muli-Media Transport Protocol).

The Internet design principles (RFC 1958) includes the Robustness Principle: be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving. A good one, but applied too liberally can lead to interop issues. For instance, consider web browsers. Imagine one browser becomes so popular that web devs create web pages and just test out their pages in this popular browser. They don't ensure their pages conform to standards and accidentally end up depending on the manner in which this popular browser tolerantly accepts non-standard input. This non-standard behavior ends up as de facto standard and future updates to the standard essentially has had decisions made for it.

PermalinkCommentstechnical design principles software development

Concept Art From The Legend Of Zelda - Nintendo - Kotaku

2010 Jan 29, 10:01PermalinkCommentsart game videogame nintendo zelda map design history

How Flash Drives and Social Engineering can Compromise Networks

2010 Jan 22, 1:44"He seeded the customer's parking lot with USB flash drives, each of which had a Trojan horse installed on it. When the employees arrived for work in the morning, they were quite excited to find the free gadgets laying around the parking lot. Employees eagerly collected the USB drives and plugged them into the first computers they came across: their own workstations."PermalinkCommentsvia:ericlaw security usb windows social-engineering computer technical

YouTube - Paper Mario Bros. 3 - A Stop Motion Animation (HQ)

2010 Jan 20, 5:19Stop motion animation in paper of Mario Bros. 3.PermalinkCommentsmario video videogame nintendo youtube animation paper stopmotion

JeffRubinJeffRubin.com

2010 Jan 20, 3:26"I just found out they made a Ninja Turtles TV movie where the Turtles from the relatively dark 2003 cartoon meet the Turtles from the goofy 1987 cartoon"PermalinkCommentscartoon humor teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles movie tv

First-Person Tetris

2010 Jan 14, 2:51Its Tetris on the Nintendo (sort of) from the perspective of the piece (sort of).PermalinkCommentshumor tetris game videogame nintendo flash

Google and China: the attacks and their aftermath

2010 Jan 13, 6:35Ars Technica rounds up links on the recent Google threatening to stop censoring itself in China including quotes from Secretary of State Clinton, and the EFF and info on the hacks.PermalinkCommentsgoogle china arstechnica news politics security censorship
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