February 2012
4 posts
Rubber duck debugging →
Listen to your community, but don't let them tell... →
Mobile Phone Data Reveals Human Reproductive... →
January 2012
6 posts
Why are software development task estimations... →
Via @marcoarment
Cat Valente: A Far Green Country →
WordPress plugin unblocks censored sites →
Charlie Stross: Eating the seed corn →
Charlie is (rightly) concerned about the long term consequences of library closures in the UK, especially on young readers.
Pioneer One - Episode 6 →
This is a TV series distributed primarily on BitTorrent. As such, it needs your attention.
December 2011
3 posts
Charlie Stross: Tanenbaum's Law v. the Fermi... →
November 2011
10 posts
A Guide to the Occupy Wall Street API, Or Why the... →
This idea crystallized for me yesterday when Jonathan Glick, a long-time digital journalist, tweeted, I think #OWS was working better as an API than a destination site anyway.
Lethal medical device hack taken to next level →
The wireless hacking of a medical device, first demonstrated at the Black Hat 2011 conference in August, has been taken a step further. An insulin pump has been hacked and instructed to deliver a lethal dose without first knowing the device’s ID number.
TOR Cloud →
The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking -... →
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career... →
via marco.org
NBN Myths →
Dan Gillmor: WikiLeaks payments blockade sets... →
“But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that...”
– http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html
Cory Doctorow: It's time to stop talking about... →
Har.ms →
Matthew Borgatti makes some pretty kick-arse cool shit. Eclectic and interesting.
October 2011
4 posts
Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman →
I read this twice.
Company Thanks Guy Who Alerted Them To Big... →
Thinking about change →
September 2011
13 posts
“There is a wise saying in Chile:
EARTHQUAKES DO NOT KILL PEOPLE! BUILDINGS DO!”
– Al Jazeera comment
Survival Of The Stupidest →
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Selling out is selling out →
Earth Shots →
Pretty photos… *drool*
Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data... →
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity →
Are jobs obsolete? →
The question we have to begin to ask ourselves is not how do we employ all the people who are rendered obsolete by technology, but how can we organize a society around something other than employment?
1 tag
Laser Power Systems is Developing Cars Fueled by... →
Al Jazeera Opinion: The ethics of digital direct... →
August 2011
9 posts
Our Paper Life: 100% Recyclable Cardboard... →
90 percent of US net users don’t know from crtl-F →
If PHP were British - Added Bytes →
URL Shortening Sucks When Bandwidth Is Scarce →
There’s plenty of people on various blogs telling us that URL shorteners like bit.ly or tinyurl break the web, because they create an arbitrary dependency on themselves. For example, if you hit a…
And When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter... →
lucasrichter: "oauth2_provider: Make your Rails... →
lucasrichter: "Ruby on Rails guides"... →
July 2011
7 posts
lucasrichter: "omgbloglol - The Path to Rails 3:... →