April 2008
14 posts
“I love the idea of being alerted as soon as there is a new book about dogs in...”
– Steven Poole: Free your mind [emphasis added]
Apr 29th
WatchWatch
20 x 2 : What’s The Difference? (via JPG Magazine). Just about the sweetest thing you’ll watch on the Interwebs this week.
Apr 23rd
Apr 21st
“Speaking of iCal, which proudly boasts Helvetica in miniature point sizes on the...”
– Swiss Interface Syndrome (though I must admit the amateur typography is far down on my list of things I find offensive in iCal, quite possibly the least usable calendaring software I’ve used)
Apr 21st
Overestimating Threats Against Children →
“Boy boils egg.” News at 11.
Apr 18th
UltraSPARC T2 Plus →
The price/performance ratio of Sun hardware is starting to look pretty darn compelling: 10GbE and a pair of Niagara processors for under $10k. Throw in ZFS and Solaris Zones, and it sure is some food for serious thought.
Apr 14th
Greg Sadetsky: Don’t you find Accelerator to be much more expensive than S3? Garrick Van Buren: I haven’t done the math comparing the two, primarily because I’m a strong believer in ‘you get what you pay for’, plus, interacting with S3 isn’t the same as interacting with MySQL. I have a hard time imagining the difference in price is so large that it overshadows the cost of learning how to be tied...
Apr 14th
“The Web isn’t hypertext, it’s DECORATED DIRECTORIES! What we have...”
– I DON’T BUY IN
Apr 14th
HTun →
HTun is a tool to allow you to create a fully bidirectional IP VPN over an HTTP proxy or just over port 80, allowing you to bypass restrictive firewalls and use any service you desire.
Apr 10th
Hash Collisions (The Poisoned Message Attack) →
A nice example of one practical application of hash collisions.
Apr 8th
Gentium Basic and Gentium Basic Book released  →
I haven’t investigated Gentium closely yet, but I’ve heard good things. May be a promising candidate for CSS3 Web Fonts.
Apr 7th
BLDGBLOG: The mathematics of preservation and the... →
Certainly my favorite BLDGBLOG post yet. It has too many juciy bits in it for me to pick just one to point out, so if you’re interested in topology, urban spaces, and ruins then go read this.
Apr 6th
Apr 3rd
“We think the Captioning Sucks homepage may be the only viable usage of Comic...”
– About the design of Captioning Sucks!
Apr 3rd