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Today’s daily WTF: a draft spec web API for zero-polling two-way communication in HTML and JavaScript. Because nothing says “cool” like having some server be able to ram data down to your browser unrequested. … Actually, scratch that. Nothing says “insecure” like having some server be able to ram data down to your browser unrequested.
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Executable file format hacking for fun and … profit? Seriously, if you’ve ever wondered how it’s possible to get self replicating code to be small enough to fit inside a single UDP packet (SQL Slammer, e.g.), now you know what some of the tricks are.
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Best Alex Chilton anecdote of all time.
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Memories of Alex Chilton.
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Great post and series of photos of the Massachusetts March flood.
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Another good voice is gone. I had hoped that there would be a day before he died that Big Star would be playing on everyone’s iPod. I guess that day is going to be tomorrow.
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A brilliant media put-on from Devo that reads like a lot of posts I’ve read on Pho recently.
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I find it interesting that very few of the anti-health-care folks I hear from online address the effects of the exchanges, or the tax cuts.
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Thought provoking survey of Eastwood’s career on the cusp of 80.
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Still going after all these years.