May 2012
24 posts
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Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website... →
A great JS API to add Clippy or other agents to your website! Make them talk, dance, gesture, etc
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Get Set: A Jet To Replace Needles For Injections :... →
Star Trek’s hypospray apparently already existed and has been patented since 1960.
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Comedy Bang! Bang! - Episode 102 →
The second episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! available for your viewing pleasure immediately. (episode one not yet available)
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IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA... →
Very interesting - both technically as well as looking into the moral justifications the botnet operator provides. But equally interesting is the discussion on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3960034. Especially the discussion on the Verified by Visa (3D Secure) system and how the goal is basically to move liability onto the consumer and off of the merchant or credit card...
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Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia, the free... →
Wikipedia’s alternate names for the slash include stroke, solidus, and separatrix.
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Scorching legal response from Dajaz1.com to the... →
Its all quite shocking.
Fourth , when I explained that the blog publisher had received music from the industry itself, a government attorney replied that authorization was an “affirmative defense” that need not be taken into account by the government in carrying out the seizure. That was stunning.
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The Lazy Man's URL Parsing (joezimjs.com) →
Web apps really make obvious the lack of URI APIs in the DOM or JavaScript. This blog post goes over using DOM API side effects to resolve relative URIs and parse URIs. An additonal benefit of this mechanism is that you avoid security issues caused by mismatched behavior between the browser’s URI parsing and your app’s URI parsing.
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Timeline of the far future (wikipedia.org) →
Answers those questions like “When will the Sun boil away the Earth’s oceans?” and “When will the Sun burn out?”, but brings up new questions like which supercontinent configuration will win? I’m hoping for Pangea Ultima as it has the best name.
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The frequent fliers who flew too much -... →
“Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. “
“He was airborne almost every other day. If a friend mentioned a new exhibit at the Louvre, Rothstein thought nothing of jetting from his Chicago home to San Francisco to pick her up and then fly to Paris together.”
“She pulled years of flight records for Rothstein...
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Scumbag Steve's Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl →
Blake Boston of the Scumbag Steve meme writes an open letter to the woman in the Annoying Facebook Girl meme.
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Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for... →
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C++ Algorithms: next_permutation() →
Breakdown of the STL’s implementation of next_permutation. Ever wondered how that works?
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April 2012
30 posts
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Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a... →
As Hammond explained what he did, the critic became agitated. Times are tough enough in journalism, he said, and now you’re going to replace writers with robots? “I just looked at him,” Hammond recalls, “and asked him: Have you ever seen a reporter at a Little League game? That’s the most important thing about us. Nobody has lost a single job because of us.” At least not yet.
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"Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes"... →
This document defines several Structured Syntax Suffixes for use with media type registrations. In particular, it defines and registers the “+json”, “+ber”, “+der”, “+fastinfoset”, “+wbxml” and “+zip” Structured Syntax Suffixes, and updates the “+xml” Structured Syntax Suffix registration.
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Google Chrome - Fuzzing for Security →
Overview of Google’s fuzzing security practices for Chrome.
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Internet Archive - Downloading in bulk using wget →
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Raising the bar on web uploads →
Flickr’s new HTML5-ish photo upload feature technical overview.
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The Metro Developer Show →
The Metro Developer Show is the first podcast exclusively for Metro developers and enthusiasts.
Each week Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk traverse the exciting world of Metro (phone, tablet, desktop and Xbox); covering the latest news and exploring what it means for the developer community and everyday users.
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Diagramly →
Web app for making diagrams like Visio. Export your results as SVG, PNG, PDF and others.
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JavaScript in JavaScript (js.js): smaller, faster,... →
Unlike Inception, running a JS engine in a JS engine does not make the inner JS engine go faster.
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EFF White Paper Outlines How Businesses Can Avoid... →
A House subcommittee has passed the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), which would require disclosure from companies about their human rights practices and limit the export of technologies that “serve the primary purpose of” facilitating government surveillance or censorship to countries designated as “Internet-restricting.”
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A VC: The Twitter "Patent Hack" →
Specifically Twitter has said that they will only used these assigned patent rights defensively to protect themselves against hostile actions. And further that any company that acquires these patent rights from Twitter will need the inventor’s consent to use them in an offensive action. Twitter has also provided the inventor with certain rights to license the patent to others for defensive...
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WatchAnother Comedy Bang Bang preview clip this time with Zach Galifianakis.
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Microsoft talks Windows 8 SKUs: Windows 8, Windows... →
Windows RT is the name of the Win8 ARM SKU? That’s funny because its also the Windows Runtime: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211377
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Image Error Level Analysis with HTML5 →
Javascript tool says if a photo is shopped. It can tell by looking at the pixels. Seriously. Links to cool presentation on the theory behind the algorithm behind the tool: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/files/bh-usa-07-krawetz.pdf
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Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection (justinsomnia.org) →
In short, Marriott is injecting JavaScript into the HTML of every webpage its hotel customers view for the purpose of injecting ads (and in the meantime, breaking YouTube).