Category: linkblog

“You’re telling me that (the establishment clause) is in the First Amendment?” –Christine O’Donnell, dumbfounded that the principle of separation of church and state is enshrined in the Constitution. Delaware, your candidate for Senator.

The Rent is 2 Damn High! If you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you! And I thought the sideshow was bad in Massachusetts.

Nice performance from a Manu Katché and guests show.

An incredibly detailed and visual reminiscence of Mandelbrot the man and the math.

So long, grand old man of fractals. You’ve made the world an infinitely more fascinating place.

Awesome: Automatic hefeweizen pouring robot! Prost!

Discussion of possible approaches for detecting CSRF through static analysis.

Raiders of the Lost Data Center, anyone?

“Microsoft is the new Wang.”

Risotto + pesto FTW. Think this might be a Thanksgiving option with the pesto I froze in September.

The inevitable “based on a true story” movie just got its angle.

A little Mac automation with an iPhone control panel sounds good to me, provided he explains how to lock it down to keep it from being accessed by other users.

More technical debt discussion. Translation for startups: laser like focus on small feature sets may be a better bet than developing a comprehensive offering.

Copyright killed the audio star.

This is the president I voted for.

The Map of Online Communities has been updated. Incredible work.

A failure to adequately threat monitor or test means that DC will not be doing electronic ballot return. On the plus side, they were smart enough to ask people to try to hack the system before they rolled it to production.

Brilliant proposal.

I suppose, in this world, we all pick our most threatening bugaboos. The insanity of the militias and related groups described in this article is the one that I think is most likely to cause real damage.

The craziness of this country right now is that no one dare take this good news on the campaign trail.

Nice writeup of the Igs in the MIT student newspaper.

Hoder escapes a death sentence but gets a severe penalty for speaking freely.

I somehow missed this: Windows Live is being migrated to WordPress.com. And their numbers aren’t that hot for a blogging platform: about 300,000 live blogs, or about 250,000 that aren’t done by employees out of Redmond.

The developer’s view to feature selection, or why some good features die when sites scale. Brilliant.

It’s Asteroids! On any web page! And you can shoot at parts of the page! Paranoid folks note: Noscript will ask if you want to whitelist all of github.com if you want to run the Javascript on the page, which is probably not the smartest thing to do.

Incredible writeup. Detroit has become Bellona, the ghost city in the heart of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren.

On how to exploit a weakness in the Zeus botnet command and control software and pwn it.

Some dim awareness seems to have filtered beneath the hairspray of Virginia’s hack of a GOP governor.

Good review of young trumpeter’s most recent album.

Heh. LPs are passe. Wonder if the 78s are shellac? (Hope not; there will be a lot of broken product in the channel.)

A redshirt running back leaves the UVA football team–because he really wants to major in computer science. I love my alma mater.

The latest iteration of our report digs deeper into third party code, cloud applications, and metrics around PCI. It’s a scary world out there. But our remediation time findings suggest there is hope–once you find the bugs they can be surprisingly quick to fix.

To read: “Where Good Ideas Come From.”

The new opinion pages on nytimes.com are a prominent example of using web fonts for branding purposes. With those headline fonts I can almost smell the newsprint.

This is why physicists make such good product managers. Or maybe bad product managers.

When is an independent security audit not helpful for your code? When it’s not done. The total breakdown of Haystack after its security weaknesses were discovered in the wild, in a hostile regime, is a good reminder to get your code tested by a pro before engaging in risky behavior.

The interesting bit here, aside from the fact that women now serve as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the President, and the Rector of the University of Virginia, is this tidbit: “Plans changed, however, when Gov. Bob McDonnell chose not to re-appoint Abramson, who contributed to the political campaigns of Kaine, Mark Warner and other Democrats.”

Yup. McDonnell and his administration just can’t keep from trying to screw up the University.

Just as much evidence for the literal truth of the six-day creation story as for evolution? Why yes, I’ll have what she’s having.

Awesome illustration of what you can do with web fonts and modern HTML+CSS. I particularly dig the Atlantis example.

A few of these might catch on. (I suffer from an extreme, persistent case of “cover buzz.”)

Nice capsule overview of Nick Cave’s career in the context of a “Grinderman 2” review.