Author: Tim's Bookmarks

Oh the beautiful visuals.

“Then this happened.” In retrospect it’s easy to see the design tipping points; they weren’t so apparent when they were happening.

Gartner’s Joseph Feiman calls out Veracode as HP and IBM’s competitor.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Delighted to see HP’s acquisition of Fortify. Veracode now stands alone in offering independent third party assessments of application binaries. HP’s acquisition validates the market while accentuating Veracode’s differentiation.

Excellent summary of thoughts and considerations about providing help content in web applications.

No surprise if you’ve eaten Five Guys.

OK, antivaccination parents. Here’s the thing: you’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Your refusal to vaccinate your children is endangering everyone else.

Awesome, evocative model kit cum art project that uses Ray Bradbury’s 1949 story “Kaleidoscope” as a starting off point for a very physical meditation on mortality.

Old but good article summarizing good data presentation techniques for security metrics.

Confirming what we all know. Sexy, sexy.

Interesting take on the current state of the biz.

Interesting interview with Bob Inglis, who lost his primary because he wouldn’t call Barack Obama a socialist, among other things–and he’s one of the most conservative guys around.

Astonishing photo gallery of color photos from the Depression.

Read Bloomberg’s speech. Don’t read the comments (I weep for my countrymen).

I think I’ve found a new candidate vegetable for Thanksgiving dinner.

It’s always fun studying the history of other glee clubs.

Oh dear. Whoever decided it was a good idea to go after Wikipedia on what is essentially a free use matter had better have their seatbelts fastened.

Having worked inside the beast, I can’t say I’m surprised that the end user lost out to the ad industry in that decision.

Sold for $1.

Google writes their own WebGoat, in Python.

A bug in Excel, now fixed, tries to open a CSV file as SYLK if the first two letters of the file are ID. Welcome to the hairy world of software….

In other news: holy crap, Mobile Safari has a remote code execution vulnerability so big you can update an OS through it.

View source: strong, strong, strong! Joke for web geeks only. (Via the Daily WTF.)