April 2009
31 posts
“Apparently, the difference between 80s truck salesmen and Matt’s [“CouchDB +...”
– Another conference season, another dumb sexist
“Engle [Acting Deputy Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection]...”
– Schneier on Security: Unfair and Deceptive Data Trade Practices. Yes!
“Your Fonts are superior to Our Fonts in every conceivable way, except one: WE...”
– Fuck the foundries [dive into mark]
“The relationship between AES-128, AES-192, and and AES-256 is more complicated,...”
– On long cryptographic keys - Educated Guesswork
How False Rumors Can Cost Lives →
“Here’s one thing I’m sure of: there is no danger of all human discourse...”
– ongoing · Less Like Oration
“At this point, I’d like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe...”
– XeePhotoshopLoader.m - xee - Google Code
“Again, I fail to see any clear distinction between someone’s boring...”
– BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter (via kottke)
“Vermont ranks first in the nation for green behavior exhibited by citizens,...”
– It’s so easy to be ‘green’ - Brattleboro Reformer
“40. There’s a FIXME in your code that really needs fixing…”
– How not to render 3D graphics: 40 ways to get a blank black screen
A Mathematical Seduction →
Hot analysis action.
“If transparency and approachability are the solutions, then we need something...”
– Sam Ruby: Canonical Reverse Or Wisdom Defying Shorturl?
“Ok, so now we’ve got a modern-day zombie Jesus here, he’s a...”
– Layer Tennis | Week 8 | Layer 5: Tweet, Link Monkey! LOL.
“Q Last Friday, the Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege in...”
– The White House - Press Office - Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 4/9/09 (emphasis added). So much for my last post. Fuck you, Obama, you were supposed to be better than this. If I’d wanted a President who would abuse the power of the executive branch and flout the rule of...
“The DOJ claims that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for...”
– In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ’s New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush’s. Let’s hope this is “just” a case of the Obama administration mismanaging the Department of Justice, and that the DOJ is not representative of the administrations actual policy goals....
“You can spin this story several ways. The tourism bureau just tells us STEREO...”
– Secrets in the L4/L5 Gravity Wells. Sweet!
“So, shortly after it was announced, I wrote code to block it from Daring...”
– Daring Fireball: How to Block the DiggBar. Love the greeting!
QuirksBlog: Making safe for historians →
That’s funny: I was making many of the same points in a discussion with a client early this week. Ahh, how I love dealing with historical dates…
AFTER DEADLINE - Times Topics Blog - NYTimes.com →
I love the Times Topics blog, particularly for the After Deadline section.
“Where things get difficult, as always, is in the kerning.”
– The H&FJ Institute for Unapplied Mathematics
“Exceptions that pop up now link back to the source tree at GitHub, including the...”
– GitHub + Hoptoad = Awesome! Nice.
“I’m going to tell you exactly how someone can trick you into thinking...”
– Why you can’t trust ‘friends’ on Facebook (via)
Protovis - Examples →
Examples made by recreating classic information visualizations. Nice!
A Neighborhood of Infinity: Faster than a speeding... →
Fun.
Twitter Is Not RSS →
A nice PSA.
ec2onrails →
Now supports EBS: time for a second look!
“These crimes are a harbinger of the future: evolutionary pressure on our...”
– Schneier on Security: Stealing Commodities
“When Lief K-Brooks, an 18-year-old from Brattleboro, created the online chat...”
– ‘Talk to strangers’ - Brattleboro Reformer. I just found out about Omegle today, but had no idea it was created by someone from Brattleboro. Nice!
“I’d argue that “square miles” and “square kilometers” really have no place in...”
– johnaugust.com » On square miles. Good point.