Month: January 2011

One of the things that made me want to go into space, when I was a kid. Very cool.

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I should really look into Instapaper.

How Stravinsky’s Firebird is related to Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock”, the Art of Noise’s “Beat Box,” and just about every other 1980s hit. An appreciation of the Fairlight.

Killer terminal app for OSX.

A market driven solution to antivax parents endangering all our children? Don’t know if there’s a high enough price that someone could pay for that.

Very interesting.

A system that allows passively sniffing and replay signals to open car doors and even start the ignition needs a little work.

UVa alum John Roll died shielding Giffords aide Ron Barber from Loughner’s bullets.

Nice chartporn walking through Apple’s financial reporting. Bets on when the iPad line crosses the Mac line?

Launch the app and your iPhone (or iPad, or what have you) turns into an active AirPlay end point.

Transparency on the methods of Mac app crackers.

If it didn’t require OneNote 2010 I’d consider it. Still, pretty cool that Microsoft is writing iPhone versions of their core office suite applications.

Useful-looking tool from Microsoft that enumerates the attack surface of a Windows machine. Run it before and after an application installation to validate that the application isn’t unnecessarily endangering you. Cool.

Amazingly, someone has finally done something visually innovative with RSS and publish dates.

Opportunities abound for improvement in the state of the art of malware.

Beautiful, elegant description of key strategies for managing highly detail oriented people.

“Six months, thought Litvinov. By then Schwimmer could have all three yellows if I don’t prevent it. Schwimmer, Litvinov’s former partner, had recently passed Go and was liquid. He could build. Litvinov, for his part, held two gray properties, Vermont and Connecticut, but his ex-wife Jessica owned Oriental, and he knew she would never trade it to him.”

There is a sense of hope for the future of political discourse in this country in this piece that I wish I could share.

Yikes. Again.

Fairly astute prediction of what Google's decision to drop H.264 support in Chrome means (more Flash for Chrome users).

Someone spoofs the National Portrait Gallery over the Wojnarowicz incident. Anonymous?

On point.

Brick your phone! No, really!

Look at the table summarizing differences between the MMR – autism study as published and as reviewed, then read the full text. There is not a single shred of evidence in this paper that vaccines led to autism or other issues. If you are a parent who refuses to vaccinate your children because of studies like this, you are endangering your kids and mine with no valid reason.

After looking for a long long time, I finally found someone who could explain why the medieval Christmas carol “Nowel: out of your slepe” calls Mary the “empresse of Hell.” In this case it means the earth, as in the Norse _hel_.

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript in your pocket. This is kind of a nice app–interesting price point though.

Like anything else, the destruction of the Saddam statue in the center of Baghdad was a more complex act than it appeared at the time. The article shows that it wasn’t orchestrated but places heavy responsibility on the media for the distortion of what happened.

New version of the convenient one-button hack to enable AirPrint for shared printers on your Mac. Now no longer redistributes Apple files.

Short version – a different DVD navigation library gets around the Track 23 problem.